Van gogh still life

Vincent van Gogh, a renowned Dutch artist known for his...

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Nature morte 'Roses et anémones', 1890, oil on canves, 51 x 51 cm, Musée d'Orsay. Still Life with Roses and Anemones

The foreground and background compete for attention in this still life. It's an explosion of colour.The background includes just about every variety of blue and green on Van Gogh’s palette. Over that, he added brushstrokes in contrasting colours: yellow, orange, red and pink. He used these same colour combinations for the apples in the foreground, but in the opposite order: the warm tones first, followed by cool green and blue accents. This created unity in the scene.

Van Gogh still life with flowers and book

This flower still life is not unfinished, even if it looks that way. Van Gogh painted it with loose and clearly rapid brushstrokes, as he was increasingly doing since he went to live in Auvers. He made the flowers only just recognisable and surrounded them with fairly rough blue outlines.He painted the bunch of flowers in the home of his doctor, Paul-Ferdinand Gachet (1828-1909), whom he described as ‘a ready-made friend and something like a new brother’. We even know that he painted it at…

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Van Gogh: The Life on Instagram: "#VanGogh of the Day: Still Life with Quince Pears, Winter 1887-88. Oil on canvas, 46.0 x 59.5 cm. Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden."

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Vincent told his artist friend Paul Signac that the fish stood for the gendarmes who hassled him after he mutilated his ear