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. Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette (1886, Winter) . Vincent was 33 years old . #vangoghgang #glogh . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 32 cm × 24.5 cm Location: Permanent Collection at Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam . #vincent #vangogh #vincentvangogh #figure #paint #painting #art #artist #colour #🌻 #artoftheday #arthistory #painter #sunflower #oilpainting

. Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette (1886 Winter) #vangoghgang . Vincent was 33 years old . #vangoghgang #glogh . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 32 cm × 24.5 cm Location: Permanent Collection at Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation), Amsterdam . #vincent #vangogh #vincentvangogh #figure #paint #painting #art #artist #colour #🌻 #artoftheday #arthistory #painter #sunflower #oilpainting

. Sorrowing old man / At Eternity's Gate (May, 1890) . #VanGoghGang #GLOGH . Vincent was 37 years old . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 81 × 65 cm (31.9 × 25.6 in) Location: Collection at Kröller-Müller Museum . “Take care of your health, above all take baths if Gruby recommends it, for in the four years by which I am older than you, you will see how necessary comparatively good health is for being able to work.” (Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, 1888 in Arles) . #art #artist #paint #painter #painting #oilpainting #artwork #arthistory #vincentvangogh #vangogh #gogh #letter #quote #sunflower #figure #impressionism

. The Night Café (Café de Nuit, in van Gogh’s own word) (Painted in September, 1888, Arles) #masterpiece #tb . #vangoghgang #GLOGH . Vincent was 35 years old . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 72.4cm x 92.1cm (28.5in x 36.3in) *Standard size 30 canvas Location: Collection at Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands . “Today, I am probably going to start on the interior of the café where I stay, gas-lighting, in the evening. It is what they call here a ‘café de nuit’ (they are fairly common here), staying open all night. Night prowlers can take refuge there when they have no money to pay for lodging or are too tight to be taken in.” (From #vvg to #tvg, 6th of August, 1888, Arles #France) . •Nocturnal painting Van Gogh had intended to make a nocturnal painting for some time. And not one in the conventional manner, in shades of black and grey, but actually with an abundance of colours. Equally unconventional is that he paints this gas-lit terrace of a café in Arles in situ and in the dark, because colours have a different appearance during the day than by night. •Sharp contrast The most eye-catching aspect is the sharp contrast between the warm yellow, green and orange colours under the marquise and the deep blue of the starry sky, which is reinforced by the dark blue of the houses in the background. Van Gogh was pleased with the effect: ‘I believe that an abundance of gaslight, which, after all, is yellow and orange, intensifies blue.’ •Constellations He writes to his sister Wil: ‘I enormously enjoy painting on the spot at night.’ The fact that he observes keenly is borne out by later astronomical research. He painted the constellations precisely as they appeared on the night of 16 or 17 September 1888. (K.M Museum) . #vincent #vincentvangogh #vangogh #art #artist #paint #painting #painter #artwork #arthistory #landscape #cafe #terrace #night #sunflower #🌻

. Four sunflowers gone to seed (painted in Aug.-Oct. 1887) . #VanGoghGang #GLOGH . Vincent was 34 years old . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimenstions: Location: Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, the Netherlands . “Life-sized This is an unusual flower still life. Here, Van Gogh does not paint fresh flowers in a vase or pot, no arranged bouquet of different flowers, no entourage and no background; just a few cut sunflowers gone to seed. The flowers are painted life-sized and fill the entire canvas. Colour studies In Paris, Van Gogh frequently paints flower still lifes to practice his use of colour. In 1886, he writes to a friend: ‘I have made a series of colour studies in painting simply flowers (…) seeking oppositions of blue with orange, red and green, yellow and violet, seeking the broken and neutral tones to harmonise brutal extremes. Trying to render intense colour and not a grey harmony’. Highpoint In this painting, he finds what he sought: warm and cold colours in contrasting tones. The combination of these with the swirling brushstrokes in all directions, but also the strange, undefinable space in which the sunflowers are placed, make this painting one of the highpoints of his Parisian period.” (K.M Museum) . #vincentvangogh #vangogh #gogh #letter #quote #art #artist #paint #painter #painting #artwork #arthistory #sunflower #stilllife #oilpainting #🌻

. The Starry Night (June, 1889 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence) #vangoghgang #tb #masterpiece . Vincent was 36 years old . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 74cm x 92cm Location: Permanent Collection at The Museum of Modern Arts (@themuseumofmodernart), New York . "After the sun's good night kiss, it was as if this hamlet, this field, these hills, everything around, silent and grateful, once more recalled, the richness and peace they had enjoyed, before wrapping themselves in the cloak of evening dew to sleep." (Excerpt of a poem taken from "The Pauper" by Jan van Beers in the letter from #vangogh to Haanebeek Family in London, 2nd July, 1873) . "A starry sky, for example. See, that's a thing I'd like to try to do, just as by day I want to try to paint a green meadow spangled with starry dandelions. Yet how can I do it, unless I work it out at home, and from my imagination? Of course, this faults my idea while yours gets praised." (From #vvg to Emile Bernard, Arles, 9th April 1888) . "When you have looked at [the starry night study] for some time, and that of the ivy as well, it will perhaps give you some idea, better than words could, of the things that Gauguin and Bernard and I sometimes used to talk about, and which we've thought about a good deal; it is not a return to the romantic or to religious ideas, no. Nevertheless, by going the way of Delacroix, more than is apparent, by colour and a more spontaneous drawing than delusive precision, one could express the purer nature of a countryside compared with the suburbs and cabarets of Paris." (From #vvg to #tvg, Saint-Remy, 17th or 18th June, 1889) . "Paul Signac on his visit to Vincent van Gogh in Arles, Spring 1889: [Vincent] led me to his apartments in Lamartine Square, where I saw his marvellous pictures, his [masterpiece]: the Starry Night. Imagine the splendour of those whitewashed walls, on which flowered those colourings in their full freshness." (Excerpt taken from Gustave Coquiot to Unknown, Paris, 1932) . Have you seen this painting in person? . #GLOGH . #vincent #vangogh #vincentvangogh #art #artist #paint #painter #painting #yellow #arthistory #aotd #potd #love #and #passion #live #life #book #🌻#glogh

. Acacia in Flowers (1890) . Vincent was a month from his death (37 year-old) . Method: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: Dimensions: 33 x 24cm/ Frame: 40 x 31 x 3 cm Location: Nationalmuseum, Stockholm . “…that, after your own marriage, is what I should set my heart on more than anything. When you are married, perhaps there will be other marriages in the family, and in any case you will see your way clear and the house will not be empty any more. Whatever I think on other points, our father and mother were exemplary as married people. And I shall never forget Mother at Father's death, when she only said one small word: it made me begin to love dear old Mother more than before. In fact as married people our parents were exemplary, like Roulin and his wife, to cite another instance. Well, go straight ahead along that road. During my illness I saw again every room of the house at Zundert, every path, every plant in the garden, the views from the fields round about, the neighbors, the graveyard, the church, our kitchen garden behind-down to the magpie's nest in a tall acacia in the graveyard.” (From Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, January, 1889 in Arles) . #vangoghgang #GLOGH #vincent #vincentvangogh #vangogh #gogh #art #artist #paint #painting #painter #artwork #arthistory #letter #quote #sunflower #absinthe #🌻

. Self-Portrait (April – June, 1887) . Vincent was 34 years old . Method: Oil on Cardboard Dimensions: 32cm x 24cm (23 Location: Collection at Kröller-Müller Museum, the Netherlands . “In February 1886, Vincent van Gogh goes to live with his brother Theo in Paris. There he becomes acquainted with the painters Pissarro, Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, Gauguin, Seurat and Bernard. Inspired by their work, he begins experimenting with different styles and with bright, light colours. During this period, he has the ambition to become a portrait painter and to thus earn a living. In the absence of models, he paints numerous self-portraits, ‘because if I can manage to paint the coloration of my own head, which is not without presenting some difficulty, I’ll surely be able to paint the heads of the other fellows and women as well’. Van Gogh is not interested in making photographic portraits. A portrait must also express something of the subject’s emotional state. The colours are still fairly subdued in this self-portrait. Soft blue and green tints dominate the painting. By contrast, the rapid brushstrokes are exuberant, particularly in the background. These give the work a lively and dynamic character.” (K.M Museum) . #vincentvangogh #vangogh #gogh #art #artist #paint #painter #painting #artwork #arthistory #impressionism #France #Krollermuller #netherlands #otterlo #museum #fineart #selfportrait #portrait #GLOGH #sunflower #VanGoghGang #🌻