Stok's varied cartoons of Van Gogh’s images, which she uses as settings, abstract backgrounds, characters’ canvases, and icons, explore the ways in which the artist’s world, life, and psyche are often viewed through his artwork. She recreates many of his iconic works, including Sunflowers and Starry Night, as well as the infamous moment in which Van Gogh cuts off his own ear, all in her trademark style.Īlthough her use of simple cartoonish figures and uncomplicated backgrounds stands in stark contrast to some of the more explicit aspects of Van Gogh’s life (sex, violence, and absinthe), her rich colour choices and pronounced outlines speak to Van Gogh’s work. To picture Van Gogh, Stok employs the public’s awareness of Van Gogh’s paintings and his posthumous celebrity. Published as part of the Art Masters series, first in Dutch in 2012 and then in English in 2014 by Self Made Hero, Vincent explores the artist’s most prolific years spent in Arles, Saint-Rémy and Auvers-sur-Oise before his death in 1890. Stok has won the Stripschapprijs, the Netherlands’ highest comics award, for her collected works of mostly autobiographical comics. Dutch comics artist Barbara Stok turns her attention to the life of Vincent Van Gogh in the 2014 graphic biography, Vincent.
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