Rendering on Painting №2

The article published on the website freep.com on January 28, 2013 is headlined “Famed Van Gogh painting to visit the DIA in February”.  The article reports at length that the Detroit Institute of Arts is bringing Van Gogh’s famous “Bedroom in Arles” to its galleries for three months beginning Feb. 19. It is necessary to point out that on loan from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, the painting will be flanked in Detroit by three of the four Van Gogh oils owned by the DIA. The show promises Detroiters the opportunity to see one of the Dutch post-impressionist’s landmark pictures – one that rarely travels but remains widely recognized through photographs and reproductions.

Speaking of the situation, it is interesting to note that the exhibition follows a formula similar to the DIA’s showcase of Vermeer’s “Woman Holding a Balance,” which was borrowed from the National Gallery in Washington D.C., in August. Moreover, nearly 19,000 people saw the Vermeer painting, which also rarely travels, during the four weeks it was on view at the DIA. 

It’s an open secret that DIA leaders have found that small tightly focused shows with as little a single masterpiece at their core are an attractive and cost-effective way to beef up the museum’s exhibition schedule between larger, more expensive special exhibitions.

There is a lot of comment on created in 1889, the “Bedroom in Arles”. It depicts the interior of the artist’s room when he was living in the south of France. It is necessary to point out that the Musee d’Orsay’s painting, which is 22 ½ inches tall and 29 inches wide, is the third of three nearly identical versions made by Van Gogh. The first is owned by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the second by the Art Institute of Chicago. Both of these are bigger than the picture that will visit Detroit.

The article concludes by saying that the DIA-owned Van Goghs on display will include two of the museum’s most celebrated masterpieces, the “Self- Portrait” and “The Portrait of the Postman Roulin,” along with “The Diggers.” In addition to it, Salvador Salort-Pons, head of the DIA's European Art Department, will curate the exhibition, which will be on view through May 28.

As for me, I think that in spite of the fact that the painting was a particular favorite of the artist, I was really impressed by Van Gogh’s work because it shows the simplicity and relative dreamlike tranquility of everything. In other words, it expresses absolute repose with different colours.