Torso of Venus and a Landscape, 1887

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Van Gogh’s Bedroom after a trip to IKEA

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had a deep appreciation for flowers as his parents produced large floral gardens. Bouquets became central aesthetic devices for him enabling him to expand his color sense in painting them. The number & range of his flower still-lives are remarkable in quantity & quality.

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And finally some blockbusters - elbowing peeps out of the way to see them (pre Supermatism) 3/3

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Many of the paintings of feature diggers, sowers, reapers and workers of the land. The theme of the laborer had been celebrated by Millet & other painters before Van Gogh but Vincent modernized it stylistically and conceptually. Van Gogh gave new stature to labor itself.

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Head of a Peasant Woman with White Cap, 1885

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The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides, and its depths; it has its pearls too.

~ Vincent van Gogh

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🖼️Montage réalisé avec la carte postale "Auvers-sur-Oise" dans laquelle le dernier tableau de Van Gogh, "Racines" (1890) a été reconnu. https://t.co/KpCKuPYFkI

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