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- iamsmooth, on 07/31/2008, -2/+47They really should check other famous paintings for this kinda stuff. Imagine if they found a bunch of penises hidden below The Scream, maybe artists back in those days were just as immature as people are these days.
- palehorse864, on 07/31/2008, -3/+32Incidentally, Van Gogh is buried beneath a patch of grass as well.
- JaggedHairball, on 07/31/2008, -0/+26Or just some random chick.
- EmiliaGarcia, on 07/31/2008, -4/+30It's really not uncommon to find unfinished paintings in layers on a canvas. Many artists like Van Gogh didn't sell ***** while they were alive and needed to reuse their supplies. Leonardo da Vinci did it, Gauguin did it, Picasso did it.
- Tyviris, on 07/31/2008, -0/+26They could've been unsatisfied with it and decided to not waste a canvas by repainting over it.
- jamez, on 07/30/2008, -4/+30Now that is sad... what would make an artist paint over their works? Lack of canvasses?
- il2k3, on 07/31/2008, -0/+24Simpsons did it.
- 801NvizioN, on 07/31/2008, -11/+34***** you. Two of my friends died under a Van Gogh painting.
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/31/2008, -1/+24van gogh was beyond piss poor. he never had a job...just allowances from his brother. never sold any work.
re-use of canvas was relatively common and still is..esp for someone like van gogh who was a bit of an outsider artist during his time. - erhanaltay, on 07/31/2008, -0/+18Its obviously a secret code related to the Catholic Church.... Don't you read Dan Brown?
- gl77, on 07/31/2008, -0/+16actually that may make perfect sense since Van Gogh was very poor and hardly of any paintings sold while he was still alive.
- MuskokasFinest, on 07/31/2008, -2/+17hmm...makes you wonder how common this was.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+14OJ didn't do it - but that's how he would have done it if he was the painter. Hey. ...he even had painter gloves!
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/31/2008, -0/+9he painted random people all over his small town. his early work was devoted to peasants.
- cryonix, on 07/31/2008, -0/+9From another article with videos, they estimated that Van Gogh painted over 30% of his old paintings.
http://www.vangogh.ua.ac.be/
Would submit this article but the dupe police would be all over it.
Digg needs a "related article" feature. - nationalist, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8ya that's what i was thinking
- cjheinze, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8Oh Vincent... Perhaps they'll listen now.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+9...wow
- beingdevious, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8very common. my gf has 16 canvases in the garage that will be re-used. practice makes perfect..
- DonCreech, on 07/31/2008, -3/+10Hmm... can you blame the man? I'd probably bury her homely ass under a nice patch of grass too.
- ninjarabbits, on 07/31/2008, -0/+7i could see tubgirl as being the motivational source behind the Scream
- netneutrality, on 07/31/2008, -6/+13I wonder who she was. Some secret love? There's probably a long story behind it, a story nobody will ever know.
- robot1122, on 07/31/2008, -0/+7Wow, these guys really are sciencing as fast as they can!
- MOJIRA, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6If Chewbacca lives on Endor you must aquit.
- wonderbriefs, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6I've done it plenty of times. Canvasses can be expensive. Also, if a friend of yours does a painting and you ask, "Can I buy that?" Don't be insulted when the friend says, "Sure, $80." Chances are you might still be buying the piece for the cost of the materials.
- Badman996, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5Bitch probably didn't pay for her self portrait so he did this to it just to mess with her.
- rowlodge, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5so the price just doubled?
- dn11, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4painters do it all the time.
- dengzhi, on 07/31/2008, -0/+42 for 1!!
- colosis, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4i guess its impossible to forge this painting then..
- skeletorcares, on 08/03/2008, -0/+4he sold a grand total of one painting while alive. To his brother Theo, who resold it, luckily.
- sixtymonkeys, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4I paint over my old canvasses all the time... sometimes you just aren't happy with a piece, and painting over it is better than a)throwing the old canvas out or b)storing it indefinitely for no purpose (since it's not sale-able or displaly worthy)
quality canvas isn't cheap :-) - CaptainM4d, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Here's the original painting: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Van_Gogh_- ...
- jamez, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Dan Brown reads my books.
- jaxcs, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Absolutely, it could also be a painting that he didn't find to his liking.
- cadmiumpaint, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4they actually do this a lot to study an artists technique...looking for underpaintings and compositions. They learned about Vermeer's abstract design this way...by x raying his paintings and seeing how he moved background shapes around to assemble the best abstract forms.
- Zyvo, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Glad to hear you became a scientist yourself that is saving the world from...whatever it is you think it needs saving from.
Oh wait. - Syugo, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Just let him be an autodidact. Or he will never learn.
- jamez, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Thought so, rather fascinating to think about what else he could have painted over... most artists (myself not included as I dont consider myself good enough) are never happy with 'final' results :)
- postvivace, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2He probably used one of his old rough draft sketches to start the painting of the woman....cheap mofo
- bunkka, on 07/31/2008, -3/+5cool, scan his other paintings
- Leopards, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Anybody know the date when he cut off his ear? This might be the one he sent it to!!
- InoMan, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam a few days ago, and there are a couple of paintings on display that also have other drawings/paintings layered underneath.
- tehknotte, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Good point!
- Nick519, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2it was later... 1889, i believe. this was painted in paris, well before he went to the south of france.
- hollyminkowski, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2WoW!
That's really cool...to get to look beneath one painting and see another :-)
Here is a much larger image of the painting beneath the painting.
http://i33.tinypic.com/1z48thu.jpg - LucciX, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2actually, i can imagine ways in which this tech could be used that would fall more in the column of function than form. your comment sounds cynical... like perhaps you feel more powerful sitting in judgment of the achievements of others. and if i believed that "saving the world" were anything more than a trite boomerism, i'd say it needs saving "from" us, more so than "by" us.
- Nick519, on 08/01/2008, -0/+2it was painted in paris, but the subject looks to be from his neunen period. he painted lots of peasants then (like his famous "potato eaters" painting). it could be an earlier study that he didn't feel came off well, and he saved the canvas until he found something else he felt was worthy of painting over it.
- warsongs7, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Someone else should correct foofighter777.
- cjheinze, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2i don't :/
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