Archive: Van Gogh Paintings
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Apr 09, 2013
No CommentsVincent van Gogh’s Bedroom
On loan from the Musee D’Orsay, the popular Vincent’s Bedroom in Arles, is currently on display at The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) in an exhibition titled Guest of Honor: Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles. The painting will be displayed along with three other paintings by Van Gogh including Self Portrait with Straw Hat –...
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Mar 19, 2013
1 CommentVan Gogh’s Irises
In May of 1889, Van Gogh admitted himself to the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France. In his final year of life, he painted some 130 works. Within the first week at the asylum, he began to paint Irises; the subject matter was inspired by the asylum’s garden to the south of the men’s...
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Feb 07, 2013
No CommentsVan Gogh’s “Heads of the People” February, 1885
From 1881 to November of 1885 Van Gogh lived in the Netherlands. It was during this time that he had a humanitarian outlook on life and spent a good deal of his time painting peasants and workers. He had an attachment and sympathy for the working class and found the subjects noble, simple and honest. ...
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Jan 15, 2013
No CommentsVan Gogh and Japanese Art, Part 2
Oiran (The Courtesan) Painted in the summer and autumn of 1887, Oiran, also known as The Courtesan, is an image of a Japanese woman copied by Van Gogh from a print by Keisai Eisen which was on the cover of the May 1886 Paris Illustré, a magazine that featured an article about Japan. Van Gogh’s...
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Jan 08, 2013
1 CommentVan Gogh and Japanese Art, Part 1
The Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige) & Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige) In the years following the Treaty of Kanagawa in 1854, Japanese isolation ended and large numbers of Japanese artifacts made their way into Europe. The 1867 World’s Fair, Paris Exposition Universelle, had a display of Japanese art that wooed the crowds and...
