The Van Gogh Gallery Blog

Still life was just one of the many types of art that Van Gogh mastered.  Van Gogh’s early still life paintings are more realistic in style and capture the aspects of peasant life in the Borinage, Belgium.  During his later years, living in the South of France, he became more expressive with color and more imaginative depicting subjects. A recent post from Eyeconart’s blog discusses several different masters’ takes on still life including Van Gogh and how even in painting still objects each artist’s style and personality shows through.  Scroll through our gallery to see more of Van Gogh’s progression as an artist through still life.

We recently received a request for more information about Van Gogh’s painting La Mousmé, Sitting and the specifically the meaning of La Mousmé in English. According to The National Gallery of Art website, La Mousmé “came from a character in a popular novel set in Japan. ‘A mousmé is a Japanese girl-Provençal in this case-twelve to fourteen years old.’” For more information please see the National Gallery of Art’s description of La Mousmé. If you have more information about this painting, or a question about another painting, please feel free to comment.  I will do my best to help you find out more about it. I will also share any items of interest that I come across, so that everyone may benefit.