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Beethoven, Blommers, and Höhenrieder

“To Blommers, children represented happiness and innocence, and he often captured children’s play in his pictures. He himself once said that although he saw children by the sea almost everyday, they offered him something new every time. (‘Ja, dat schilder ik graag, zulke kinderen aan zee. Ik zie ze bijna iedere dag zoo, en toch…

Vincent’s “Eyes That Know the Darkness…”

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Van Gogh and Chopin Nocturnes

“Small though it is, Sprig of Flowering Almond Blossom in a Glass is like an eloquent proclamation of things to come–not just the arrival of spring, but of the imminent blossoming of van Gogh’s art… The principal image [is] an exquisitely observed almond branch whose every corrugation of twig and delicacy of petal has been…

Van Gogh: Two Cypresses (1889)

Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong stay at the asylum in Saint-Rémy. The subject, which he found “beautiful as regards lines and proportions, like an Egyptian obelisk,” both captivated and challenged the artist: “It’s the dark patch in a sun-drenched landscape, but it’s one of the most…

Van Gogh: Techniques and Methods

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Vermeer: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

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Vincent Van Gogh: First Steps, After Millet

“In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies “translations” akin to a musician’s interpretation of a composer’s work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother,…

Vincent Van Gogh: Une liseuse de romans (1888)

“Van Gogh painted the canvas in mid-November, during the fourth week of Gauguin’s stay at Arles. A period of bad weather had descended upon the region, and the two painters were forced to work indoors. On November 10th, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo, “We are having wind and rain here, and I am…

Vincent van Gogh: Bedroom in Arles (1889)

“Van Gogh conceived the first Bedroom in October 1888, a month after he moved into his “Yellow House” in Arles, France. This moment marked the first time the artist had a home of his own, and he had immediately and enthusiastically set about decorating, painting a suite of canvases to fill the walls. Completely exhausted…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night (1889)

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Krystian Zimerman: 4 Impromptus D. 935 (Schubert)

“I’m ploughing on like a man possessed”Following a third breakdown in the height of summer, Van Gogh returned to painting once again in September. As the heat of the Provençal summer cooled and autumn arrived, the artist returned once again to olive trees, finding in their forms and foliage a subject that was unchanging and…

Rosa Díaz Cotán: Harp Concerto (Dittersdorf)

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Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat Fields With Reaper (1890)

“Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the vast fields of wheat that stretched above Auvers-sur-Oise, a town north of Paris where he lived the last two months of his life. He painted many views of these fields, including this landscape with a reaper cutting the golden grain while the stacked sheaves recede toward a village…

Sonnet: Healing Works, by Ana Daksina

Healing Works by Ana Daksina Has something very bad happened to you, Something that you can never now forget? Something which brings you sad each day into Wondering how unto the next you’ll get? There is a way, friend, to relieve the pain A way to bring to others benefit So you and they tranquility…

Vincent van Gogh: Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

Jan van Huysum: Fruit Piece (1722)

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Van Gogh’s Life of Struggle

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Exhibition: Van Gogh at Auvers

“Vincent van Gogh lived in Auvers-sur-Oise from 20 May 1890 until his death on 29 July of the same year. He was tremendously productive in these months and made several of his most renowned masterpieces, including ‘Wheatfield with Crows’ and ‘Tree Roots’. In the anniversary year of 2023, the Van Gogh Museum and Musée d’Orsay…

Vincent van Gogh: Pietà (after Delacroix) 1889

Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, September 1889 In the Autumn of 1889, Vincent remains ill. Consoling himself by copying works from some of his favorite artists, Vincent works in a small studio in the asylum of Saint Paul of Mausole in Saint Remy de Provence as he recovers from a prolonged episode of mental illness. To Theo, his brother,…

Vincent Van Gogh: The Red Vineyard (1888)

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Gautier Capuçon: Prélude 1st Suite (Bach)

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Van Gogh and the Postman

“I’m now working on the portrait of a postman with his dark blue uniform with yellow. A head something like that of Socrates, almost no nose, a high forehead, bald pate, small grey eyes, high coloured full cheeks, a big beard, pepper and salt, big ears.” Vincent van Gogh READ FULL ESSAY: Christie’s “While Roulin…

Bernardus Johannes Blommers: Schooltje spelen

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Johannes Vermeer: The Milkmaid (c. 1657-8)

“Bach based his chorale Christum wir sollen loben schon – part of his cantata of the same name, BWV 121 – on a hymn by Martin Luther from 1524. This was in turn based on the Latin hymn A solis ortus cardine, by Caelius Sedulius from ca 450. For this recording soprano Viola Blache made…

Van Gogh and Japan: Part 3

Japan in Arles “In early 1888, Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France, where he hoped to establish an art colony. Believing that painting could be reinvented through the genre of portraiture, he encouraged his fellow artists to paint themselves, and then to exchange the canvases. After receiving self-portraits from Emile Bernard…

Vincent van Gogh: L’homme est en mer (1889)

“Painted at Saint-Rémy in October 1889, Van Gogh’s haunting depiction of a young mother, pining for her husband away at sea, is a brilliant example of the artist’s transformative vision of a time-honoured subject… L’Homme est en mer is Van Gogh’s own interpretation of a work of the same title by his contemporary, the French…

Exhibition: Van Gogh in America (DIA)

“Van Gogh in America, at the Detroit Institute of Arts (2 October-22 January 2023), is the first show to tell the story of how US art lovers discovered Vincent’s work in the early 20th century. After a slow start, American collectors eventually flocked to buy his paintings, with many of their acquisitions ending up in…