{"id":48304,"date":"2023-09-14T13:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=48304"},"modified":"2023-09-14T13:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T17:23:41","slug":"art-history-myths-broken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/09\/art-history-myths-broken-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Art History Myths: Broken Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Myths, stories, and apocrypha have always surrounded art and artists. Some start with a grain of truth, while others are just made up entirely. Here is just a short collection of some of my favorites\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48306\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48306\" class=\"wp-image-48306 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"A painting showing a bald man holding his face with an expression of show or fear as he hears the &quot;scream of nature&quot; and the sky turns red behind him.\" width=\"169\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-825x1024.jpg 825w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-768x953.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-1238x1536.jpg 1238w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-1650x2048.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Scream<\/em> by Edvard Munch<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What is The Scream?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edvard Munch\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Scream<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is one of the world\u2019s most iconic modern paintings. It shows a person with an anguished look gripping their face in the middle of a pathway. While one might assume that the work\u2019s title refers to the subject\u2019s action, interestingly enough it does not. The title does not refer to the screaming subject but the subject hearing a scream. Some have posited that they are hearing screams from a nearby asylum, but it is far more mystical than that. Munch originally exhibited <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Scream<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> under the German title <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Der Schrei der Natur<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, or <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Scream of Nature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Munch originally conceived the idea while walking across a path over a fjord near Oslo. In January 1892, Munch wrote, \u201cI stopped and looked out over the fjord \u2013 the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream.\u201d He had likely suffered a panic attack at this moment. Munch makes the red sky appear as thought it is vibrating like an actual scream reverberating through nature. However, the other figures further along the path seem undisturbed, as if the scream is only in the subject\u2019s head.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48305\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48305\" class=\"wp-image-48305 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"A cityscape in pencil, pen, and watercolor showing a series of buildings by a canal in The Hague, Netherlands.\" width=\"229\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/default.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Bridge and Houses on the Corner of Herengracht-Prinsessegracht, The Hague<\/em> by Vincent van Gogh<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Van Gogh, the Unrecognized Genius<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most common factoids about Vincent van Gogh is how he was not fully recognized outside of artistic circles in his lifetime. One myth that gets a lot of attention is that he only sold one painting in his lifetime when Anna Boch bought <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Red Vineyard at Arles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. However, this was far from the only painting Van Gogh sold. He received commissions rather early in his career, most notably from his uncle Cornelis van Gogh, who commissioned him to create a series of cityscapes of The Hague in 1882. Though he went unrecognized for a good portion of his career, Van Gogh did start to gain some visibility towards the end of his life. Around 1887, three years before his suicide, patrons began hanging his work at their caf\u00e9s and shops. Plus, he not only sold his own paintings, but he sold those of others as well. The Van Gogh family was a family of art dealers in the Netherlands for generations. Vincent\u2019s uncle, also named Vincent but called Uncle Cent, was a partner at Goupil &amp; Cie, one of continental Europe&#8217;s most prestigious art dealers. Cent even ran their location in The Hague for a time, where, starting in 1869, he employed his nephew Vincent, aged 16. Vincent worked at the Hague and London locations, doing very well at the former but less so at the latter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_48307\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/640px-Chapelle_sixtine_plafond.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48307\" class=\"wp-image-48307\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/640px-Chapelle_sixtine_plafond-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti showing scenes from the Book of Genesis including the Creation of Adam\" width=\"192\" height=\"144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/640px-Chapelle_sixtine_plafond-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/640px-Chapelle_sixtine_plafond.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-48307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo Buonarroti<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelangelo On His Back<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Irving Stone\u2019s biographical novel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Agony and the Ecstasy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, about the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, is one of the greatest books about art I have ever read. But if you don\u2019t have the time for that, the 1965 film adaptation with Charleton Heston as Michelangelo, containing a small fraction of the book\u2019s contents, is a beautiful movie. One of the most iconic images, shown in both the book and the film, is Michelangelo lying on his back on the scaffolding he\u2019s constructed, paint dripping onto his face as he paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. While it is a striking image, this is unfortunately another myth. This misconception comes from one of his contemporaries, Paolo Giovio, who wrote that this must have been how Michelangelo created the monumental work. However, writers, chroniclers, biographers, and other contemporaries agree that Michelangelo and his assistants stood up to paint. They stood on the scaffolding, crooking their necks the entire time, causing neck and back pain that Michelangelo wrote about later in life, providing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/6\/67\/Michelangelo_painting_God.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a crude drawing of himself painting on the ceiling while standing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_47262\" style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jackson_Pollock.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47262\" class=\"wp-image-47262\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jackson_Pollock-227x300.jpg\" alt=\"Studio portrait at about age 16 circa 1928\" width=\"135\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jackson_Pollock-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Jackson_Pollock.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackson Pollock, circa 1928<\/p><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson Pollock\u2019s Work Playlist<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson Pollock\u2019s paintings are some of the textbook definitions of \u2018modern art\u2019. His splatter technique, which he called \u201caction painting\u201d, was innovative through its free-flowing, almost improvisational style. It was similar to another art form, one that Pollock himself enjoyed very much: jazz. His love of classic New Orleans jazz, swing, and the songs of Billie Holiday are well-noted by his friends and contemporaries. In 1999, the Museum of Modern Art released a compilation CD called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jackson Pollock: Jazz<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, featuring Jelly Roll Morton, Artie Shaw, Fats Waller, and others from Pollock\u2019s collection. This has given rise to the story that Jackson Pollock painted while listening to jazz. While it\u2019s a powerful image, it is unfortunately untrue. Pollock\u2019s primary studio was a barn next to his home on Long Island. It had no power source, so listening to the radio or jazz records would have been difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myths, stories, and apocrypha have always surrounded art and artists. Some start with a grain of truth, while others are just made up entirely. Here is just a short collection of some of my favorites\u2026 What is The Scream? Edvard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/09\/art-history-myths-broken-down\/?contemporary=N\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":48306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[384,224,72,816,815,768,120,834,58,767,11,9,620,204],"class_list":["post-48304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rehs-galleries","category-rehs-contemporary","tag-19th-century-european","tag-20th-century-american-art","tag-american-art","tag-city-scene","tag-cityscape","tag-jackson-pollock","tag-modern-art","tag-myths","tag-old-masters","tag-pollock","tag-rehs-contemporary-news","tag-rehs-galleries-news","tag-renaissance","tag-van-gogh"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Art History Myths: Broken Down - Rehs Galleries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Some myths and misconceptions about famous art and artists, from Renaissance masters to the twentieth century.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/09\/art-history-myths-broken-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Art History Myths: Broken Down\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some myths and misconceptions about famous art and artists, from Renaissance masters to the twentieth century.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/09\/art-history-myths-broken-down\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rehs Galleries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RehsGalleriesInc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-14T17:23:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2063\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Nathan Scheer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/art-history-myths-broken-down\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/art-history-myths-broken-down\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Nathan Scheer\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/1d33fd182b28afdad8fc3548ffe6bdc4\"},\"headline\":\"Art History Myths: Broken Down\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-14T17:23:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/art-history-myths-broken-down\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":889,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/art-history-myths-broken-down\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/rehs.com\\\/eng\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/09\\\/Edvard_Munch_1893_The_Scream_oil_tempera_and_pastel_on_cardboard_91_x_73_cm_National_Gallery_of_Norway-scaled.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"19th Century European\",\"20th Century American Art\",\"American Art\",\"city scene\",\"Cityscape\",\"Jackson Pollock\",\"Modern Art\",\"myths\",\"Old Masters\",\"Pollock\",\"Rehs Contemporary - Art World News\",\"Rehs Galleries - Art World News\",\"Renaissance\",\"van gogh\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Rehs 19th &amp; 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