In a sense, then, Van Gogh was late to the ‘Japonisme’ party: he first became attuned to the beauty of Japanese art while living in Antwerp in 1885, when he pinned a set of black-and-white
background information on vincent van gogh
Vincent van Gogh (born March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands—died July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, France) Dutch painter, generally considered the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. The striking colour, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms of his work powerfully influenced the
Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art, Concealed van Gogh: Radiographic Images of Vincent van Gogh's Paintings in the Collection of the van Gogh Museum,under no. 4, fig. 4a ; Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum,1989, p. 163; I geni dell'arte: van Gogh, pp. 116-117; The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh,no. 394 p. 349 His passion was now for “a full effect of colour.”. He left Paris in February 1888 for Arles, in southeastern France. Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Joseph Roulin. Portrait of Joseph Roulin, oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France, early 1889; in the Museum of Modern Art, New York City. 64.4 × 55.2 cm. This is one of fifteen canvases of olive trees that van Gogh executed between June and December of 1889. Earlier that year he had interned himself in the asylum of St-Paul, in the town of St-Rémy in southern France, where he would create his most profound works. The vibrant oranges and yellows suggest that the picture dates to the autumn Vincent's Still Life With Cabbage and Clogs, one of his first paintings, makes use of the somber earth tones that characterize his early works in the Dutch style. It also features a rich splash of color, a harbinger of the brilliant Van Gogh painting style to come. One of the Vincent van Gogh's early forays into landscape, a genre that would w x y z Vincent Van Gogh, self portrait, 1889 © Van Gogh is now one of the most well-known post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated in his lifetime. VincentIn a sense, then, Van Gogh was late to the ‘Japonisme’ party: he first became attuned to the beauty of Japanese art while living in Antwerp in 1885, when he pinned a set of black-and-white