What Seurat was working toward was a system that ... evoking catcalls from the critics and attracting younger painters. Van Gogh tried pointillism but found it too exacting; Gauguin, too, gave ...

The Siesta is Van Gogh’s interpretation of an 1866 canvas ... A foundational figure of the post-impressionists was Georges Seurat. The painter was one of the first to want to venture beyond ...

At first sight it looks absolutely nothing like a Van Gogh: a portrait of a fisherman mending his net and smoking a pipe by the seashore. It lacks the strong colouration, thick impasto paint ...

Documentary series in which Waldemar Januszczak sets out to uncover the secret meanings hidden in four famous paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne and Seurat.

Vincent van Gogh moved from Paris to Arles in Provence in February 1888, when he was 34. By the end of the year, he was in hospital after mutilating his ear. In May 1889, he was admitted to a ...