Symposium Van Gogh’s Studio Practice in Context

Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait as a painter (1887-1888), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)Location: Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam
Date: 24-26 June 2013
English spoken

From May 2013 to January 2014 the Van Gogh Museum, in close collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and Shell Nederland, will present the results of an innovative and interdisciplinary research on Van Gogh’s working methods in the context of his time to a larger public.

An ambitious exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, accompanying publications and an international symposium, will shed more light on Van Gogh’s use of an impressive range of materials and techniques in order to understand to what extent his studio practice was influenced by other artists and the conditions in which he lived and worked.

Participation
Scholars (curators, researchers, conservators, conservation scientists, physicists and chemists) working in the wider field of 19th-century studies are warmly invited to attend the symposium. The organization invites broad participation. Therefore, we would be most grateful if you could forward this announcement to possible interested parties.

Registration
Registration for the symposium is possible until 15 June 2013. The registration fee includes admission to both museums (Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum), lunch and refreshments, as well as an evening reception and visits to the exhibition, Van Gogh at work.

Registration fees:
Regular € 295,-
Regular + scholarly publication at reduced rate 
€ 360,- (€ 295 + € 65)
Student (max. 20 places)€ 125,-  
Student + scholarly publication at reduced rate€ 190,- (€ 125 + € 65)

Please send your subscription to studiopractice@vangoghmuseum.nl.
Make sure to subscribe early! As soon as we receive your registration, we will send the payment specifications.

Accommodation
Symposium participants must make their own hotel reservations and are responsible for their own hotel costs. The following website may be useful: www.booking.com,search for: Museum district or Amsterdam Oud-Zuid district.

The symposium is organized in cooperation with:

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Preliminary programme
  • Programme Monday 24 June 2013

    Afternoon
         		Van Gogh Museum - corridor Van Gogh at work bookshop
    1:30 pm - 3:15 pm
    		Registration participants


    Afternoon
    		Stedelijk Museum - auditorium
    3:30 pm
    		Doors open
    3:45 pm - 4 pm
    		Welcome introduction - Axel Rüger (Director Van Gogh Museum) & Marije Vellekoop (Head of Collections, Research & Presentation)
    4 pm - 4:15 pm
    		Words of thanks and presentation of the scholarly publication
    4:15 pm- 5: pm
    		Opening lecture - John Leighton (Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland, former Director of the Van Gogh Museum)


    Evening
    		Van Gogh Museum
    5:30 pm - 8 pm
    		Welcome Reception at the Van Gogh Museum
    Visit exhibition Van Gogh at work - researchers present - explanation educational tools
  • Programme Tuesday 25 June 2013

    Morning
    Session 1
    Chair:

    		Stedelijk Museum - auditorium

    to be announced   

    9 am - 9:15 am

    9:15 am - 9:45 am
    		Coffee

    Ann Hoenigswald & Barbara Berrie
    National Gallery of Art, Washington
    Lost color/lost meaning: the consequences of change in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh

    9:45 am - 10:15 am
    		Ella Hendriks & Roy Berns 
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam  & Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, USA
    Digital colour rejuvenation: The Bedroom as case-study

    10:15 am- 10:45 am
    		Kathrin Kinseher 
    Akademie der bildenden Künste München
    ‘And then in the colours there is adulteration as in wines’. Criticism and claims in 19th century paint production

    10:45 am - 11:15 am

    		Coffee break

    11:15 am  - 11:45 am
    		Vanessa Otero et al.
    Universidade Nova de Lisboa
    The nineteenth century manufacture of yellow and red lake pigments: the Winsor and Newton approach

    11:45 am - 12:15 pm
    		Koen Janssens
    University of Antwerp
    Characterization and degradation of chrome yellow pigments in paintings by Vincent van Gogh

    12:15 pm - 12:45 pm
    		Muriel Geldof
    Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam
    Van Gogh’s Dutch picture supports

    1 pm - 2:30 pmLunch  and poster presentations at Van Gogh Museum


    Afternoon
    Session 2
    Chair:

    		Stedelijk Museum - auditorium

    to be announced

    2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
    		Johanna Salvant
    formerly C2RMF, Paris
    Investigation of the grounds of Tasset et L’Hôte commercially primed canvas used by Vincent van Gogh in the 1888-1890 period

    3:15 pm - 3:35 pm
    		Rick Johnson
    Cornell University, Ithaca NY
    Counting Van Gogh and computational art history

    3:40 pm - 4 pm
    		Don Johnson
    Rice University, Houston
    Finding matching canvas supports

    4:15 pm - 4:45
    		Tea break

    4:45 pm - 5:15 pm
    		Teio Meedendorp
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
    Painting follows drawing, or does it? Van Gogh's draughtsmanship seen against his development as a painter

    5:15 pm - 5:45 pm
    		Birgit Reissland
    Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam
    'Permanent, water-proof and unequalled for outdoor sketching' - Van Gogh's use of wax crayons
  • Programme Wednesday 26 June 2013

    Morning
    Session 3
    Chair:

    		Stedelijk Museum - auditorium

    to be announced   

    9 am - 9:15 am

    9:15 am - 9:45 am
    		Coffee

    Geert Van der Snickt
    University of Antwerp
    In situ and synchrotron radiation-based macro-XRF scanning as a new technique for studying (modern) paintings

    9:45 am - 10:15 am
    		Kathrin Pilz
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
    Vincent van Gogh’s copies from Saint-Rémy – between reminiscence, calculation and improvisation

    10:15 am- 10:45 am
    		Bart Moens
    Vrije Universiteit, Brussels
    Vincent van Gogh’s first encounter with the art scène as an artist: a marking experience at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles

    10:45 am - 11:15 am

    		Coffee break

    11:15 am  - 11:45 am
    		Louis van Tilborgh & Evert van Uitert
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
    Van Gogh and his religious inspired craftsmanship

    11:45 am - 12:15 pm
    		Patrick Grant
    University of Victoria, Canada
    Van Gogh’s Theory of Practice


    12:30 pm - 2 pm
    		Lunch  and poster presentations at Van Gogh Museum


    Afternoon
    Session 4
    Chair:

    		Stedelijk Museum - auditorium

    to be announced

    2:15 pm - 2:45 pm
    		Devi Ormond
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, formerly Van Gogh Museum
    The Importance of being Emile Bernard: Breton Women in a Meadow, The Pardon

    2:45 pm - 3:15 pm 
    		Inge Fiedler
    The Art Institute of Chicago
    On the making of a cabinet- a unique collaboration between Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard

    3:15 - 3:45
    		Tea break

    3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
    		Caroline Boyle-Turner
    Independant Art Historian
    The Arlésienne: could this be the unfinished, missing painting by Gauguin that van Gogh called the ‘Négresse’ painted in Arles in October 1888?

    4:15 pm - 4:45 pm
    		Elizabeth Steele
    The Phillips Collection, Washington
    Studio techniques of Edgar Degas: discoveries made from a technical study of Dancers at the Barre

    4:45 - 5:30
    		Discussion with the four chairs
    Sjraar van Heugten
    (former Head of Collections, Van Gogh Museum)

    5:30 - 5:45
    		Closing remarks
    Sjraar van Heugten
    (former Head of Collections, Van Gogh Museum)
  • Poster presentations

    Tuesday 25 June and Wednesday 26 June during lunch breaks
    Van Gogh Museum

    1. ‘Landscapes behind closed doors’: artist’s studio practices in nineteenth century Portugal
      Ferraz et al. - Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    2. Van Gogh’s paper Les Bretonnes et le Pardon de Pont-Aven: a study of pigment composition using optical microscopy
      Cesaratto et al. - Politecnico di Milano

    3. The discolouration of the pigment cadmium yellow in modern paintings elucidated by synchrotron radiation analysis
      Geert Van der Snickt/ University of Antwerp

    4. Investigation of the rheological properties of white paints and their use by Van Gogh
      Johanna Salvant - formerly C2RMF

    5. Art meets artefacts: Identification of Artefacts as Research Instrument for Understanding Van Gogh’s Studio Practice
      Alexandra van Dongen - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
    6. The examination of Van Gogh’s double painting grounds using quantitative SEM-EDX
      Ralph Haswell - Shell Nederland

    7. En plein air or in the studio? A comparative study of Van Gogh’s painting technique, based on two paintings depicting scenes from Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
      Kathrin Pilz - Van Gogh Museum

    8. The identification of Van Gogh’s inks for drawing and writing
      Han Neevel - Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands

    9. Van Gogh’s cobalt blue
      Lise Steyn/ Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands

    10. Van Gogh's Watercolours
      Luc Megens - Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands
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