Amsterdam Gogh lived in Amsterdam for a short while and there is a museum dedicated to his work. The museum is housed in one of the few modern buildings in this area of Amsterdam. The building was designed by Gerrit Rietveld. This building is where the permanent collection is displayed. A new building was added to the museum in 1999. This building, known as the performance wing, was designed by Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa. Its purpose is to house temporary exhibitions of the museum. Some of Van Gogh's most famous paintings, like "The Potato Eaters" and "Sunflowers", are in the collection.
Outskirts of Paris (Van Gogh) the countryside, whereby city and country life were often juxtaposed, sometimes in the form of trains for factories blotting the countryside." Of Van Gogh's painting "Outskirts of Paris" (F264), Schwartz and Przyblyski write that although Van Gogh provides dots of color in a bleak terrain, "The factories - for that is what those lumpish buildings are - will replace the windmill, and the villas will march across the mud and cornfields until they reach the premonitory gas standard." Outskirts of Paris (Van Gogh) Outskirts of Paris are paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1887, while he was living in