Art Blog for The Inspiration Place

The summer 2015, I took a trip of a lifetime to Amsterdam. One of the highlights of the trip was the van Gogh museum. Being an art history major, a self-proclaimed museum expert and a professional artist, I thought I knew all there was about van Gogh. Boy was I wrong! Here are 5 new things I learned about van Gogh.. test yourself and see if you knew them too. How much do you know about van Gogh--...

I am greedily speeding through my summer museum bucket list- and I can't wait to tell you about the Van Gogh exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Van Gogh Garden

This exhibition, "Van Gogh: Irises and Roses" reunites four paintings that Van Gogh conceived together as a series. They are all the same size and framed with identical gold frames but have lived in different places for the last...

Poison Poppies
by Miriam Schulman, @schulmanArt.

Butterflies and Poppies, 1890 Vincent van Gogh part of Philadelphia Art Museum exhibition

Butterflies and Poppiesis currently part of the exhibition Van Gogh up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art but I had been familiar with the painting through reproductions in my art books. Several years ago, I made a study of poppies in this van gogh style....

Undergrowth with Two Figures, van Gogh

Rain, van Gogh

by guest blogger @lindsayleboyer, Lindsay LeBoyer

Van Gogh's world famous post-impressionist paintings can be seen anywhere from the Metropolitan Museum in New York to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. As a result, Van Gogh has had a tremendous influence in the fashion world, and not just the t-shirts from the gift shop. From haute couture to flowy frocks, Van Gogh has inspired...