The Modern Legacy of Van Gogh's Portraits

The modern portrait begins with van Gogh. He would have had it so "

That which excites me the most, much, much more than the othrs thing in my work - is the portrait, the modern portrait ... I would like, you see, I'm far from saying that I can do all that but finally I'am getting there, I would like to make portraits that, a century later, might appear to people of the time like appairitons. Accordingly I don't try to do that by the way of photographic resemblance , but by way of our impassionated expression. Using as means of expression and exaltation of character our science and modern taste of color ...!