UPDATED: Exhibit Review - Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat

by Laura Seewoester

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Sheaves of Wheat, Closing Weekend

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Horchow crowd

I ended up at a holiday party at the The Dallas Museum of Art where they kept Van Gogh’s Sheaves of Wheat open for private viewing. I was pretty excited, since I meant to catch the exhibit in the next few weeks before it left. Overall it was pretty good. There was a little more art by other artists than I expected, but it still added to the overall exhibit. Some of the artists inspired Van Gogh, some were inspired by him, but all shared the obsession of painting wheat fields. The underlying theme amongst all the works was, of course, the simplicity and cycle of life.

Van Gogh’s sketches almost surprised me more than the paintings. I never took the time to examine an impressionist’s sketches because I’m always too busy gazing into the swirl of color and brush strokes, however I noticed that Van Gogh used the same “brush strokes" in his sketches as in the paintings. They are almost charcoal-colored versions of the paintings, which makes them equally alluring. The exhibit is definitely worth a drive downtown.

Update:Our very own John Meyer battled the crowds for Van Gogh's Sheaves of Wheat closing weekend at The Dallas Museum of Art last weekend. For those of you out there who also went over the weekend and didn't promptly turn around upon seeing the line, I'm sure the words "never again" were rolling around in your heads for a good portion of the time you spent in line.

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Montgomery Sutton, says:

I made the trek down to the DMA today, in hopes of seeing the Van Gogh exhibit. The wait, though, was over two hours long when I got there at around 2:30pm -- I heard someone on staff say that there were over 5,000 people waiting in line to get in to the Van Gogh exhibit alone. The rest of the museum was more lively than I think I've ever seen it, too. It's a shame the collection at the DMA isn't of the caliber to support such a crowd on a consistant basis.

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Laura Seewoester, says:

Wow, I can't believe that many people showed up for the final weekend of the exhibit! I made the same mistake when I went to see Hatshepsut last weekend after putting it off for months. While I didn't have to wait in line (bought my tickets from ticketmaster) the crowds were insane. I was looking at this 3500 year old papyrus drawing in mint condition, and the moment was ruined as I bumped into 3 people and some kid started tapping on the glass.