Van Gogh greatly admired Japanese woodcuts for their bright colours and distinctive compositions. He based this painting of a bridge in the rain on a print by the famous artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Van Gogh made the colours ...
Van Gogh called this sunny park scene 'the painting of the garden with lovers'. Couples in love are strolling under the young chestnut trees and sitting along the winding paths.
He used a free variation on the technique ...
화가 '빈센트'의 죽음 후 1년. '아르망'은 그의 그림을 사랑했던 아버지의 부탁을 받고, '빈센트'의 편지를 전달하기 위해 마지막으로 살았던 오베르를 찾는다. 그곳에서 마르그리트, 아들린, 폴 가셰 등 '빈센트'와 함께 했던 이들을 만나면서 그에 대한 몰랐던 놀라운 사실들을 알게 되는데...
Mon cher Vincent,
je voulais écrire à votre frère mais je sais que vous vous voyez tous les jours1 et je crains de l’ennuyer, occupé comme il est depuis le matin jusqu’au soir par les affaires.
Je suis parti pour travailler ...
Van Gogh presented himself in this self-portrait as a painter, holding a palette and paintbrushes behind his easel. He showed that he was a modern artist by using a new painting style, with bright, almost unblended colours. ...
Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in the winter of 1887–88, when he had been in Paris for almost two years. It is clear from the work that he had studied the technique of the Pointillists and applied it in his own, ...
Worn-out shoes were an unusual choice of subject for a painting. An acquaintance of Van Gogh's in Paris described how he bought old work shoes at a flea market. Then he walked through the mud in them until they were filthy. ...
Van Gogh had a special interest in sowers throughout his artistic career. All in all, he made more than 30 drawings and paintings on this theme. He painted this sower in the autumn of 1888. At the time, Van Gogh was working ...
In creating this image of the night sky—dominated by the bright moon at right and Venus at center left—van Gogh heralded modern painting’s new embrace of mood, expression, symbol, and sentiment. Inspired by the view from ...
Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of ...
Van Gogh had intended to make a nocturnal painting for some time. And not one in the conventional manner, in shades of black and grey, but actually with an abundance of colours. Equally unconventional is that he paints ...
den Haag 30 Dec. 1881.
Waarde Rappard,
Uw schrijven uit Brussel1 heb ik ontvangen.
Het bevalt mij volstrekt niet maar enfin, ge hebt geschreven op een moment dat gij zooals ge zelf zegt wat abnormaal waart. Niets of ...
54 Rue Lepic
Monsieur,
J’ai parlé à M. Boggs de l’entrevue que j’ai eue avec vous1 et si vous aimeriez à faire un échange avec lui2 allez-y hardiment parceque vous verrez de belles choses chez lui3 et il sera très ...
Mon cher Bernard,
ayant promis de t’écrire1 je veux commencer par te dire que le pays me parait aussi beau que le Japon pour la limpidité de l’atmosphère et les effets de couleur gaie. Les eaux2 font des taches d’un bel ...