Van Gogh paintings as prints

The Starry Night is an oil on canvas and was painted in 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. It was painted just before sunrise and includes the drawing of a village which was not in fact there. village.It is now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and is thought to be one of Van Gogh’s finest works.

The view has been identified as the one from his bedroom window, facing east – a view which Van Gogh painted   twenty-one times in slightly different formats “Through the iron-barred window,” he wrote to his brother, Theo, around 23 May 1889, “I can see an enclosed square of wheat . . . above which, in the morning, I watch the sun rise in all its glory.”

Van Gogh depicted the view at different times of day and under various weather conditions, including sunrise, moonrise, sunshine-filled days, overcast days, windy days, and one day with rain. All of the paintings have a diagonal line coming in from the right showing the low rolling hills of the mountains. In fifteen of the twenty-one versions, cypress trees are visible beyond the far wall enclosing the wheat field. 

This Starry Night painting is a different location, in the Rhone Valley looking over the river.

 

 

 

Some of Van Gogh’s best work was painted in Arles. Here he made friends with the Roulin family and painted several portraits of Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle.

The Roulin Family is group of portrait paintings executed in Arles in 1888 and 1889 on Joseph, his wife Augustine and their three children: Armand, Camille and Marcelle. This series is unique in many ways. Although Van Gogh loved to paint portraits, it was difficult for financial and other reasons for him to find models. So, finding an entire family that agreed to sit for paintings — in fact, for several sittings each — was a bounty. Van Gogh used colors and themes artistically and creatively to evoke desired emotions from the audience.

In June 1888 Van Gogh travelled from Arles to the sea-side fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the coast of the Mediterranean. This trip was taken to recover from his health problems and make some seaside paintings and drawings. In just a few days he made two paintings of the sea, one of the village and several drawings. Van Gogh described this painting to his brother as follows: “I made the drawing of the boats when I left very early in the morning, and I am now working on a painting based on it, a size 30 canvas with more sea and sky on the right. It was before the boats hastened out; I had watched them every morning, but as they leave very early I didn’t have time to paint them.” Some of the work was finished in the studio when he arrived home.

There was a change in the paintings of Vincent van Gogh in 1886 and 1887 after he moved to Paris from the Netherlands. He began to transform the subjects, colour and techniques that he now used in creating still life paintings.

He became acquainted with ideas behind Impressionism and Pointillism and began incorporating what he learned into his work. There was a gradual change from the previous sombre mood and he began introducing brighter colour into his work. He painted many still life paintings of flowers, experimenting with colour, light and new techniques.

 

This is one of the paintings that Vincent van Gogh did when he was a self-admitted patient at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in the period from  May 1889 until May 1890. While there he was mostly confined to the grounds of the asylum. He painted the garden and the enclosed wheat field that he could see outside. During his stay at Saint-Paul asylum, Van Goghthere were times when he was too ill to paint. At other times painting was a solace to him and the messages of nature seemed especially important.

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