We had a really great private guide for our 2 1/2 hour tour of the Van Gogh museum yesterday, and our guide, Victoria, brought Vinny to life for Mike as well. This is her favorite Van Gogh entitled Undergrowth.
Chris liked this one that van Gogh painted for his mother.
She also explained that he had a box of yarn he used to experiment with combining colors.
His art is one thing, but the story of his life is quite amazing- so much so that now Chris wants to read even more about it and explore some of the other opinions on certain “facts” that circulated. Victoria our guide studied art and psychology at UCSD, so she had a wealth of background facts on whether he took his own life or not.
They do allow photography in the museum so we took a few. Victoria explained they loosened up the rules on that after Covid. In the past she said the guards were walking around repeating “no photography” and it was a constant drone in the background of your visit.
Some people are serious Van Gogh fanatics and some come completely unprepared- apparently to the annoyance of the educated ones. One visitor interrupted us with our guide to “vent” for a few minutes about something he overheard or that someone pronounced Van Gogh incorrectly. We found this a little strange but he did apologize for interspersing himself into our experience.
We were both surprised by the young lady who kept photographing her doll with all the art - I guess each generation has their own thing.
Victoria told us we were her first guests that had also come here for birdwatching, and she thought we had gotten a lot accomplished overall during our visit. She thought we were well prepared and that we even asked some questions that have given her some new things to explore herself. It was a really fun morning!
Here’s a Monet from the same period,more representative of our trip
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