Talk:Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette

Background on a reference just added

I added the following reference in spite of the fact that the reference is self-published.

Bundrick, Sheramy (June 14, 2008). "Memento Mori or Just a Joke?". Van Gogh's Chair (blog). blogspot.com. Retrieved 2013-05-19. [H]is letters and anecdotes from others record that he sparred with his drawing and painting teachers and was scornful of conservative academic practice. His time at the Academy lasted only weeks; he felt he was learning nothing and later proclaimed academic training 'damned boring.' Taken from that perspective, 'Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette' could be read as a thumbing-of-the-nose at "the establishment."</ref>

The author of the blog is Sheramy Bundrick, an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of South Florida, and the author of the 2009 novel Sunflowers (ISBN 0061765279), historical fiction based on van Gogh's life.

• http://www1.usfsp.edu/coas/focus_on_faculty/bundrick.htm
• http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=35378

67.101.5.202 (talk) 05:13, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

File:Vincent van Gogh - Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD soon

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Vincent van Gogh - Head of a skeleton with a burning cigarette - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 31, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-10-31. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:32, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Picture of the day

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette is an undated oil painting on canvas completed by Vincent van Gogh. It is held in the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam.Painting: Vincent van Gogh

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Sedaris reference?

The section about Chip Kidd and David Sedaris feels out of place, as per the guideline here: "An article should not give undue weight to minor aspects of its subject, but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight proportional to its treatment in the body of reliable, published material on the subject." This reference constitutes one paragraph out of five in the article, which strikes me as disproportionate.

Interim1234 (talk) 17:36, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

A brief "In Popular Culture" section with a mention of the book cover seems valid. Sedaris books are best-sellers, moving 1 million+ copies in many cases, so many people's first exposure to this painting is no doubt the book cover. The painting itself is not exactly one of Van Gogh's best known, so it's exposure on a best selling book cover may be a little more than a "minor aspect" of its current place in the public consciousness. 157.131.196.213 (talk) 22:47, 27 September 2022 (UTC)