Charley Toorop: Love for Van Gogh - Franka Blok, Wessel Krul, Renske Cohen Tervaert, Marjet Brolsma

Charley Toorop's work has its own originality and power. This is not to say that she did not have an eye to the work of other artists. On the contrary. Toorop admired the painting of Piet Mondrian, but also of foreign contemporaries such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger. Yet there is one artist who she believes stood at the cradle of her artistry and for whom she subsequently had respect throughout her life: Vincent van Gogh. His work was for her ‘the breakthrough to a new world'.Four essays... Zobrazit více