Creative Blog #8: The Van Gogh Museum

The Vincent van Gogh Museum

My artist of choice in ART101 is Vincent van Gogh and our recent assignments relate to purpose and function of a building's architectural design, style and movement. Here is my brief presentation of The Vincent van Gogh Museum located in Amsterdam.

It is housed in two separate buildings, the main one was designed by a Dutch architect and completed in 1973. Its modernistic style has many wide open spaces which lets the natural sunlight into an atrium and the museum galleries.

The Exhibition Wing was designed by a Japanese architect and opened in 1999. It is known as a delightful combination of West's "rational geometry" and East's "Eastern asymmetry." "Visitors enter through a passage under the Museum Square (Museumplein), and step into the Promenade of the Exhibition Wing, which forms an ellipse around a shallow, enclosed pond. The result is stunning."

Photos: Bottom photo image view. Courtesy: Amsterdam - Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam Museum at: www.amsterdam.info/museums/van_gogh_museum/ ; and, Top photo image view. Courtesy: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam at: www.aviewoncities.com/amsterdam/vangoghmuseum.htm

Peace,

Gwendolyn