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Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social |
In chapter four, “Water,” I discuss Van Gogh’s proximity to despoiled waterways, from the period of his childhood—which historians tell us saw a marked increase in industrial water pollution in the Netherlands—to those nearby his famed Yellow House in Arles, in the south of France
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Michael Lobel
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While the final full chapter, “Color,” discusses how artificial pigments, including many made from the industrial byproduct coal tar, transformed the broader chromatic world - along with Van Gogh’s palette - in the 19th century
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