Over summer I spent a relaxing few days in Amsterdam, and suprisingly I managed to cram in a visit to the Van Gogh gallery.
I've never really been a massive fan of Van Gogh, but any oppertunity to go and see one of the top rated artists in the worlds work, I couldn't really pass up. Plus, any excuse to see those sunflowers in the flesh...
It was a bit of a drag having to wait in a queue for every single painting, but patience was the price you payed it seemed. I didn't get the time to really look at the paintings, and because it was so busy, I even had to skip some. The works are organised chronologically into five periods. Each representing different phases of his life and work, they are; The Netherlands, Paris, Arles, Saint-Remy and Auvers-sur-Oise.
Another exhibition at the time of our trip was, Odilon Redon and Emile Bernard; Masterpieces from the Andries Bonger collection. It featured more than 80 works including paintings, drawings, pastels, prints and pieces of embroidery by Redon and Bernard, and offers progressive insight into the progressive taste of Bogner.
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