Van Gogh's All-Over Fields

Vincent Van Gogh, Ears of Wheat, 64.5 x 48.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Vincent Van Gogh, Ears of Wheat, 64.5 x 48.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Andrea Kirsh reviews the exhibition Van Gogh Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through May 6, 2012.

Kirsch writes that a few of the paintings "rather startlingly, have no discernible focal point. They are the sort of all-over painting we associate with Abstract Expressionism; Pollock avant la lettre... The subjects of the all-over paintings exist in an undifferentiated space."