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#Vangogh had a deep appreciation for flowers as his parents produced large floral gardens.
Later, bouquets became central aesthetic devices in his career allowing him to expand his color sense painting them. The number and range of Van Goghs flower still-lives are remarkable.
#VanGogh's early studies of Dutch women knitting are in the tradition of 17th century Dutch Domestic painters including Vermeer and Maes. Vincent's depictions were likely made in the village of Nuenen prior to 1885 and could be his sisters or local inhabitants
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#VanGogh was a fan of other artists and made personalized versions of their art making what he called "translations" of their work. "The Drinkers" is from Daumier while the "Peasant's at Rest" is after Millet. Both were b/w prints he converted into unique full-color originals.
#VanGoghs #StarryNight contains yellow stars that are stylized flowers. The "star/flower" concept (and title of the painting) was inspired by a key passage in the novel #LeMiserables where flowers inhale the perfumes of night just as we absorb the radiant beauty of the stars.
Van Gogh was both a conservative and a progressive artist and that balance afforded him an enduring legacy. He retained traditional means and methods but wisely appropriated progressive ideas about color, flattening of shape and space & heightening the impact of brushwork.
#VanGogh began his artistic training by drawing farmers and field workers in his community of Nuenen, Netherlands. He admired their hardworking honesty and as an artist emulated their rigorous habits. In a decade Vincent had achieved artistic mastery -- a remarkable achievement.
From #VanGogh's earliest portrait drawings of the early 1880's which he made in charcoal and pencil to the full-intensity color paintings at the end of the decade-- one finds a powerful, insightful and sensitive observer of the human experience. We are always touched by his art.
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