{"id":287869,"date":"2025-11-28T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287869\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T13:04:08","slug":"glasgow-artists-collaborate-on-painting-of-vincent-van-gogh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/287869\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow artists collaborate on painting of Vincent van Gogh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Throughout the 1980s, Howson, who had spent time in the army and travelling before returning to Glasgow, became known for his depictions of working-class life which told stories of economic hardship and social tension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He became the official British war artist for Bosnia in the 1990s, where he created some of his most-talked about works, including The Massacre of Srebrenica.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muir said: &#8220;Peter is one of the greatest living artists of our time, and I&#8217;ve looked up to him since the day I first picked up a brush. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You can&#8217;t escape his influence in the Glasgow art scene &#8211; his work is everywhere, in the best collections and in every conversation about painting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;And when you finally see a Howson piece in the flesh, you understand exactly why.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The background of the artwork echoes Van Gogh&#8217;s Starry Night with two suns hanging in the sky that aim to represent the meeting of the two artists and their styles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Two Sons is both of us on the canvas, exactly as we are,&#8221; Muir added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Throughout the 1980s, Howson, who had spent time in the army and travelling before returning to Glasgow, became&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-287869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}