OTTAWA - There doesn't seem to be anything particularly daring about getting down on your knees and elbows to take a close-up photo of a blooming flower or an interesting patch of foliage — the zoom is part of our snap-happy culture.But when it's a renowned late-19th century painter applying that technique, you have something unusual indeed.A major new show of the work of Vincent Van Gogh, "Up Close," opens Thursday at Ottawa's National Gallery of Canada and runs to Sept. 3. It zeros in on the artist's love of nature and his extraordinary method of bringing the viewer into the harvest-time field or verdant forest with him.In "Tree Trunks in the Grass," for example, the audience feels as though they are sitting in the ... Continue reading →

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