Dali House

Two further additions to the “Call for Help” links list at Dali House:

In operation since December, the Van Gogh Gallery Blog is an extension of Templeton Reid LLC’s well-established Van Gogh Gallery, and appears to be matching it for informativeness.

It’s a good place to pose questions about the artist, such as what the word mousmé means in his “La Mousmé, Sitting”, shown here.

Recent entries have included the discovery in January of one of Vincent’s sketchbooks (in Greece!) and the upcoming opening of Vincent vanGoghHuis, a shrine occupying the site of his birthplace in Zundert.

From the Van Gogh Blog’s own blogroll I’ve commandeered the address of Art Blog by Bob, in which a Philadelphia-based “amateur art historian” has a good look around. There are tiresome reviews and lots and lots of Blogspot’s patented single-page scrolling, and Bob embraces the current wisdom about Dali — “to put it kindly, a nut, but a nut who could paint” — but there’s plenty of engaging writing on all kinds of art, and he’s got terrific taste.