In this gallery, we showcase 30 paintings by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), the Dutch post-impressionist painter whose use of form and colour changed the world of art forever. The selection here is presented in chronological sequence to show the artist’s progression in style from his early interest in capturing humble peasant life to his spell in Paris and on to the iconic works he produced in the unique light of southern France. The gallery shows van Gogh’s most celebrated works, the friends he made, his various haunts in Arles, and his love of painting still life and landscapes in a way that nobody had ever quite done before.
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
BELGRADE- A fan group of the Serbian football club Red Star in a game on Thursday used banners to show U.S.-led NATO interventions around the world in the past decades.
During the halftime of the game at the Rajko Mitic stadium here, the Serbian fans raised huge banners listing U.S.-led NATO interventions in the past decades, one of which wrote of Beatles songwriter John Lennon’s anti-war song: “All we are saying is give peace a chance.”
The banners showed the NATO interventions in such countries and regions as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Panama, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya, Syria and so on.
In 1999, the U.S.-led NATO forces carried out continuous airstrikes for 78 days against Yugoslavia, leaving more than 8,000 civilians dead or injured and nearly 1 million displaced.
