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Vincent & Van Gogh by Gradimir Smudja Vincent & Van Gogh is a remarkable comic by Smudja. The story has been translated to Dutch and German from the French original - I haven’t found an English translation yet. The story is about a painter, Van Gogh, who wants to be an artist but lacks any talent. On a day, he saves the life of a cat called Vincent. Vincent is a genius in cat-form and he helps Van Gogh with his paintings. But under the cute fur hides a nasty creature... The story is a fantastic one, the cat talks and walks and indeed paints like a real artists. There are more fantastic elements in the story and the comic contains many pictorial jokes. Vincent & Van Gogh doesn’t get a review here because it is so fantastic or because of the horror ingredients. There is much more to tell about the comic. Vincent van Gogh, the well-known painter, lived in the second half of the nineteenth century. That is also the era the comic is set in. There are many references to real happenings in the story and in the pictures. More so, a lot of artists feature in the story, where we meet Gauguin, Lautrec, Monet and Degas among others, painted in the comic in their own famous painting style. The rest of the comic is done in the expressionist style that made Van Gogh famous. Pictures of the comic are every now and then copies of famous paintings by Van Gogh and others, and the persons from his paintings, such as the postman of Arles. There is a lot to see if you are at home in nineteenth century art, but it might as well be a nice start to explore the art of that era. The artist of this imaginative comic has made another comic, called “Le bordel des muses” (Bordello of the muses), set at the end of the nineteenth century in the Moulin Rouge, where all the artists show up again. © Yaghish 2004 |
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