On this blog, we are able to look more in-depth into paintings that Van Gogh has done. If you want to learn more about the history and art of famous pieces like the Café Terrace at Night, less known works like The Sower and The Reaper , or even if you’re just here for the haystacks, you’ve come to the right part of the blog to find out more about the history and art style of Van Gogh’s paintings.
While at the asylum in Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh painted a few portraits. One of the portraits is of Francois Trabuc, the chief orderly, or overseer, at Saint-Paul. On September 5th or 6th of 1889 Van Gogh wrote to his brother about the portrait and Trabuc, who Van Gogh found to have an interesting look,…
It was recently brought to our attention that three of the still life paintings which Van Gogh completed in May of 1890, near the end of his life, all depict the same vase. We did a little bit of our own investigating and determined that this is most likely correct. It appears that the vase in Still Life: Vase…
Charles-François Daubigny was a French landscape painter of the Barbizon school who created his paintings in open air, or en plein air, as did Claude Monet. He frequently painted river scenes and was known to frequently work at the mouth of the Seine in a village called Villerville-sur-Mer. Daubigny spent his final years in Auvers-sur-Oise…
