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Vincent van Gogh's 'Self Portrait' is penetrating force at Norton Simon

What is it, exactly, about Van Gogh?

For those of us with a vested interest in contemporary art, who spend much of our time immersed in the work of artists most Americans have never heard of, it is an important question to ponder from time to time one that the Norton Simon Museum's temporary installation of an 1889 self portrait on loan from the National Gallery of Art calls again to the fore. The National Gallery portrait, painted three months after Van Gogh committed himself to a mental asylum in Saint Remy, in the south of France, and less than a year before his death at age 37, is one of the best known, and its front and center presentation here is sure to draw the requisite crowd.

It is, of course, a wonderful painting. The chiseled, penetrating face of the artist, fringed by red and ocher wisps of hair, all but glows against a field of breathtaking blue, set down in fervent, agile brush strokes.

It is, indeed, as if the blue got the upper hand, less a color than force, a kind of fever, that persisted beyond the completion of "Starry Night" several months earlier to colonize this canvas as well. The blue refuses to function as merely a backdrop and comes to physically envelop the subject, saturating his smock, bleeding into the palette he holds in his hand, and casting a hermes classic belt replica blue green tint across his skin.

A vivid painting in almost any reproduction, it is, like all of Van Gogh's work, particularly electrifying fake hermes brown belt whosale when seen in person, where the mad, groping humanness of his brush strokes can best be felt.

That said, the real value of the National Gallery loan and this is the third that the Norton Simon has received in the exchange lies less with the virtues of this painting in particular than the opportunity it brown hermes belt replica offers to consider the museum's other Van Goghs, arrayed with pride to either side of this surprisingly small canvas, through a lens of renewed appreciation.

And from there, perhaps, the Cezannes. And from there, perhaps, the Rembrandts. And from there, perhaps, the brilliant suite of Connor Everts prints on view in the project room. At a museum like the Norton Simon, happily, there is hermes men belt replica no such thing as an isolated masterpiece.

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