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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
The van Gogh masterpiece ‘The Starry Night’ is more art than science, researchers report
VCU’s Mohamed Gad-el-Hak says the swirls depicted in the painting do not follow the rules of flow physics after all.
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The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists. Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the ...