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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Sopheap Pich

Sopheap Pich reflects on Vincent van Gogh’s drawings in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's about focus, it's about attention, but it's also about being free ..."

Artist Sopheap Pich reflects on Vincent van Gogh's drawings in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Sopheap Pich, born in 1971, is a Cambodian sculptor who works with bamboo and rattan.

A hanging buddha woven out of ratan and wire by artist Sopheap Pich

Sopheap Pich (born Battambang, Cambodia, 1971)

Buddha 2, 2009

Rattan, wire, dye; 100 × 29 × 9 in. (22.9 × 254 × 73.7 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art Gifts, 2012 (2012.349) © Sopheap Pich

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Wheat Field, Vincent van Gogh Dutch, Reed pen and logwood ink over graphite on wove paper
Wheat Field
Vincent van Gogh
July 1888
Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Vincent van Gogh Dutch, Reed pen, quill, and brown ink over black chalk on wove paper (backed with wove paper)
Street in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
Vincent van Gogh
ca. July 15, 1888
Road in Etten, Vincent van Gogh Dutch, Chalk, pencil, pastel, watercolor. Underdrawing in pen and brown ink.
Road in Etten
Vincent van Gogh
1881