Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890

1890 holte der Kunsthändler Theo van Gogh seinen Bruder Vincent zu Dr. Gachet nach Auvers-sur-Oise. Vincent van Gogh wohnte 70 Tage in einem Gasthof des Städtchens und schuf in dieser kurzen Zeit 70 Gemälde mit lokalen Motiven, bevor er Selbstmord beging und auf dem Friedhof von Auvers-sur-Oise bestattet wurde.

In diesem Gemälde hat er die romanische Kirche Notre Dame de l'Assomption von Auvers verewigt.

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Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890
Allee bei Arles (Rand einer Landstraße) – A Lane near Arles (Edge of a Road (1888)
Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald, Deutschland

A Lane near Arles was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888 when he lifed at Arles, France. It shows a lane outside of the town surrounded by trees which is running between the fields towards a yellow house. The use of bright and lively colors is typical of Van Gogh‘s style in this period.

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Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890
Allee bei Arles (Rand einer Landstraße) – A Lane near Arles (Edge of a Road) (1888 )- Detail
Pommersches Landesmuseum, Greifswald, Deutschland

A Lane near Arles was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888 when he lifed at Arles, France. It shows a lane outside of the town surrounded by trees which is running between the fields towards a yellow house. The use of bright and lively colors is typical of Van Gogh‘s style in this period.

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Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890
Augustine Rolin (La Berceuse) - Augustine Rolin (Rocking a Cradle) 1889
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

A similar painting also exists at the Fine Arts Museum of Boston, USA.

Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin, the wife of Joseph Roulin, in bold, exaggerated colors against a vividly patterned background; the rope in her hands leads to a cradle. At right, the painter inscribed the title "La Berceuse," which means both "lullaby" and "she who rocks the cradle." Van Gogh once wrote, "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring."
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890
Bauernhaus in der Provence - Farmhouse in Provence - Detail (1888)
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC., USA

Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape covered with snow. But it was sun that he sought in Provence—a brilliant light that would wash out detail and simplify forms, reducing the world around him to the kinds of flat patterns he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Arles, he said, was "the Japan of the South." Van Gogh's time in Arles was amazingly productive. In about 15 months—just 444 days—he produced more than 200 paintings, about 100 drawings, and wrote more than 200 letters.

He described a series of seven studies of wheat fields: "landscapes, yellow—old gold—done quickly, quickly, quickly, and in a hurry just like the harvester who is silent under the blazing sun, intent only on the reaping." Yet he was also at pains to point out that these works should not be "criticized as hasty" since this "quick succession of canvases [was] quickly executed but calculated long beforehand."

Pairs of complementary colors—the red and green of the plants, the woven highlights of oranges and blue in the fence, even the pink clouds that enliven the turquoise sky—shimmer and seem almost to vibrate against each other. The impressionists used this technique to enhance the luminosity of their pictures. Pissarro, who helped introduce Van Gogh to these concepts, noted, "if I didn't know how colors behaved from the researches of...scientists, we [the impressionists] would not have been able to pursue our study of light with so much confidence."

Source: National Gallery of Art, Washington

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