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...room diorama with Courtauld educator and illustrator, Toya Walker. Using the studio room in Van Gogh’s self-portrait as a starting point and exploring the idea of a picture within a...
...This collaborative piece brings together 28 individual works. Inspired by Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, students explored Vincent van Gogh’s expressive mark-making as a starting point to develop their own visual...
...Courtauld Gallery in central London, as well as through loans and partnerships. The Gallery is most famous for its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait...
...painted from within. Inspired by Van Gogh’s swirling skies, this work holds both movement and stillness, a reflection of an inner world that feels deeply, sees expansively and stays rooted...
...made crochet and stuck it around the postcards as a frame. Just as Van Gogh used lots of thick brushstrokes to add texture to his art, I used crochet to...
...its iconic Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces – such as Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. It showcases these alongside an internationally renowned collection...
...on tote bags and merchandise, long after the artist is gone. Many of these artists, like Van Gogh, probably never imagined their work would be commodified in this way. This...
...as they explored the Courtauld Gallery, students debated these questions, analysing the similarities and contrasts between Van Gogh’s Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and artworks by contemporary artist Rachel Jones,...
Mariia, Response to the Artists View, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. It was one of the most difficult periods for Van Gogh. It expresses the heaviness...
Jonny, Discredited Discretion, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. This sculpture draws direct inspiration from Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, exploring themes of mental health...
Chloë, The Listening Side, Sense of Self Online Exhibition 2025 | The Courtauld. Chloë, aged 17 Acrylic paint on paper This portrait reimagines Vincent van Gogh’s iconic Self-Portrait with Bandaged...
...me is art that I have done recently. I kept to a semi-realistic art style but I took opportunities to use different brushstrokes to take some inspiration from Van Gogh....
