Get your butt to Provence. Van Gogh's 1889JUL 09 2003
Get your butt to Provence. Van Gogh's 1889 'Moonrise' will recur on 7/13.. Apparently, there's this 'Metonic Cycle.'
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13 10 2003 2:13PM
Was this painting originally entitled "Moonrise" or is this the name they gave it after the discovery? I'm interested to know what Van Gogh named it... you'd think he'd know what he was seeing, no? Well, perhaps not with all the absinthe and Dr. Gachet's wierdass prescribed medications running through his little body.
32 10 2003 2:32PM
I don't know what Van Gogh named the painting, but if I ever paint anything, I'm going to call it "Absinthe and Dr. Gachet's Wierdass".
04 10 200311:04PM
sounds like a band. I'm sure the van Gogh mullahs would never let some astronomer interloper rename a painting.
According to this more detailed article, art historians in the '30s identified the painting as the 'Moonrise' van Gogh mentioned in a letter to his brother.
http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/0709vango09.html
This thread is closed to new comments. Thanks to everyone who responded.
Anonymous Coward17 10 200312:17AM
Well shit. I though that Moonrise was a painting of a sunset too...