Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh is a famous Dutch artist who produced some impressive paintings which were respected for their passion, meaning and colour. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist artist who achieved a style that used thick layers of paint and concentrated on brightness rather than precise depictions of reality. The life and career of this great painter are covered in full throughout this website which also features and extensive gallery of his most famous paintings too. You will see that this artist experienced one of the most intense and unstable lives of all time, with a good study into the meanings behind Van Gogh's work.
Red Vineyard at Arles painting by Vincent van Gogh
Red Vineyard at Arles is another fine art work from Van Gogh and allows the artist to fill a great spread of red across the painting which is overpowering and impressive. The colours chosen here are allowed because of the carefully selected subject which Vincent would have been excited to find, knowing immediately of the opportunity that it brought him to go to town with colour and thick oils.
Starry Night over the Rhone painting by Vincent van Gogh
Starry Night over the Rhone is another work from Van Gogh which features swirling colours and an impressive night scene. It is possible that this painting was actually created from memory, after the artist had earlier visited the Rhone to view the Starry Night before returning home to his room where he started working on the painting itself. This version with the scene over the Rhone is somewhat more subtle than his other painting of the Starry Night which featured much more vivid colour and aggressive strokes of paint.
Wheatfield with Crows painting by Vincent van Gogh
Wheatfield with Crows is one of Van Gogh's most famous landscape paintings and came towards the end of his life when despite his mental condition worsening, his painting style actually became more expressive and brighter, contrasting completely to his own mood at that time. Wheatfield with Crows again brings the colours of the French countryside as Vincent saw them and is an eye into his mind.
Thatched Cottages painting by Vincent van Gogh
Thatched Cottages is a charming but lesser known painting from Vincent van Gogh which we include above in all it's glory. The artist appreciated architecture within the French countryside and also produced some impressive work in his earlier years in the Netherlands too, including several paintings of windmills. The Thatched Cottages captured here are well within the artist's normal style, but the subject itself is normally highly popular and as such this painting is reguarly chosen as a framed art print.
Skull with Burning Cigarette painting by Vincent van Gogh
Skull with Burning Cigarette is a popular painting with an unusual choice of subject for an artist who normally went for brighter options rather than the slightly negative and even surreal feeling found here. Many buy reproductions of Skull with Burning Cigarette, perhaps because of it's almost revolutionary undertones which is of particular interest to young people, for example.
Midday Rest painting by Vincent van Gogh
Midday Rest is a charming work from Van Gogh which features a farm worker sleeping amongst some beautiful scenery, and it is sometimes refered to as Midday Rest After Millais. You can see the painting above and is a marginally lesser known painting from Van Gogh's career than many of the other art works featured within this website.
Landscape painting by Vincent van Gogh
Landscape paintings are what Van Gogh is best known for and you can see another above, though others such as Wheatfield with Crows and his various cypress-clad ones are all better known and further researched than this one. Vincent van Gogh found that his careful study of the outdoors was a great way to calm his own mind and also allowed him an opportunity to experiment with his detailed colour combinations and vary the scenes which he covered.
Sower painting by Vincent van Gogh
Sower is a powerful painting from Vincent van Gogh which features a beautiful sunset with strong reds that dominates the work and allows all other details to take a relatively lower amount of attention. Sower is an instantly recognisable work from the artist's career and it retains a considerable level of popularity for those looking to buy Van Gogh art prints, posters and stretched canvases.
Vincent's Bedroom at Arles by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent's Bedroom at Arles is a classic scene which details the personal life of the artist and offers a rare insight into how he lived thanks to this accurate depiction of his bedroom in the house where he stayed in Arles, France. As well as creating his bedroom on canvas, the artist also gave some of the objects found here their own dedicated work, such as with his chair and also his shoes.
Chair by Vincent Van Gogh
Chair as described above was an a key part of is bedroom scene and as such was later given it's very own painting which allowed the artist to add much more detail to it and also use greater varieties of colour. In order to add more interest Van Gogh also placed his own smoking pipe with papers and tobacco onto the chair which has naturally drawn much discussion as to quite why he did this. Most mysteries regarding this artist have always remained that way despite the amount of interest in his career.
Almond Branches in Bloom by Vincent Van Gogh
Almond Branches in Bloom is currently the most purchased reproduction from Van Gogh's career although it was not particularly appreciated by the academics. Flowers within a stylish look are always much loved within the art mainstream and Almond Branches in Bloom is certainly no different. One interesting aspect to the work is that it shows the artist's appreciation for Japanese art and there were also several other paintings from this period which show clear similarities to and influence from Japanese paintings from previous centuries.
Cafe Terrace at Night Painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Cafe Terrace is a painting which has brought great attention to a cafe in Arles, France which itself still continues today and has become a mecca for Van Gogh fans who come to France to understand more about his life and career. Cafe Terrace, it is fair to say, is also highly popular today because of the way that it captures French life, which many look to as aspirational when considering the relaxed and healthy nature of life here. Van Gogh himself was a great fan of the country and particularly appreciated the colours to be found within the countryside which perfectly suited his new artistic direction.
Night Cafe by Vincent Van Gogh
Night Cafe is a painting which you can see above and it actually was not produced in the same bar as featured in the Cafe Terrace, which many don't realise. Night Cafe is another interesting insight into the life of French people during the 19th century. Van Gogh was always an artist who was highly interested in using art to cover the lives of normal people where normally painters had been attracted only to the rich and famous. Van Gogh can fairly be considered a man of the people.
Irises Painting by Vincent Van Gogh
Irises were one of several favoured flowers for Vincent van Gogh who included several versions of this colourful purple plant, both in still life pre-planned paintings as well as within the natural setting of the French countryside. The art work shown above is certainly the best known of all which included Irises and offers an explosion of colour to match what the artist would have seen at that time, which came about very much towards the end of his life and career.
Van Gogh Sunflowers
Sunflowers were the topic of an incredible series of paintings which are now to be found in major art galleries across the world. Friend to Vincent and fellow artist, Paul Gauguin, decided to buy several of these paintings himself despite not always approving of much of the work from his housemate. They were to decorate the Yellow House in Arles with several from this series.
Van Gogh Poppies
Poppies offered bold blocks of red to the artist's paintings which was very much suited to the new post-impressionist approach which he took up upon moving to France, where his use of colour was to become far more aggressive and positive. Poppies, as with Irises, can be found combined together in several still life works as well as within a more natural setting such as local gardens.
Vincent van Gogh Arles Garden
Arles Garden shows the tender side of an artist who could also correctly choose ideal locations from which to produce his post-impressionist art, where natural surroundings and bright colours were the best subjects for his work. Van Gogh was similar to Monet in the way that he devoted a lot of time in garden settings and they both similarly understood the importance of colour and how it could attract a viewer's attention immediately.
Van Gogh Portraits
Portraits from Van Gogh were frequent throughout his career and represent how art was very much part of his life, and equally his life was very much part of his art. Many women with whom he had relationships would appear within portraits, as would other people who he came across as he moved from one location to another as a result of his persistant social problems that left him unable to achieve any form of stability right across his adult life.
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portraits
Self-Portraits are highly useful ways for researchers to understand more about the life and inner-mind of an artist, which are also frequently turbulent, with creativity often going hand-in-hand with social indiscretions. The portraits of Van Gogh has their own meaning built in and also stand alone as fine pieces of art work, with the painter producing a whole host of self-portraits over the period of his career, experimenting with different clothing and accessories each time.
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