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Vincent made this painting surrounded by swarms of travellers, railway staff & workers. His friend Kerssemakers later recalled how Vincent comfortably worked away, not at all bothered by the scornful remarks and comments that came his way.🌻The De Ruijterkade in Amsterdam (1885)
Does something strike you about the colours in this painting? 🌇 If you look closely, you’ll see that Vincent only used a few colours to paint the coming of evening. He made the sky largely yellow, and the foreground blue. 🌻Square Saint-Pierre at Sunset (1887) #seevangogh
Van Gogh had spent a lot of time practising painting peasants’ faces. He didn’t agree with the criticism of 'The Potato Eaters'📝: ‘Heads and hands were done with great care’. See the faces up close: http://vangogh.nl/nQdC50GfIqy 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (1885), details
Van Gogh collected prints by other artists as inspiration. As an artist, Vincent looked closely at the world around him. 👨🎨 Potential sources of inspiration are everywhere. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Poor and Money (1882)
📝 ‘I’m concerned with the world only in that I have a certain obligation and duty, as it were — because I’ve walked the earth for 30 years — to leave a certain souvenir in the form of drawings or paintings in gratitude’. 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Old Woman of Arles (1888) #seevangogh
🌳Vincent believed that an artist had to truly know & understand nature. The best way to achieve that was by living & working in the middle of it, in the unspoiled countryside.✏️Learn how to draw in Van Gogh’s signature style: http://vangogh.nl/CngS50GOy1b @VanLanschot @VanGoghBrabant
Vincent dreamed of setting up a place where artists worked & lived together. 📝‘For many reasons I’d like to be able to create a pied-à-terre which, when people were exhausted, could be used to provide a rest in the country for poor Paris cab-horses […] the poor Impressionists’
Shortly before his death, Vincent wrote to his brother Theo and his sister-in-law Jo: 📝 ‘I'd almost believe that these canvases will tell you what I can't say in words, what I consider healthy and fortifying about the countryside’. 💙🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Tree Roots (1890)
📝‘In the evening, when we rode back from Zundert over the heath, Pa & I walked a way, the sun set red behind the pines & the evening sky was reflected in the marshes, the heath and the yellow and white & grey sand were so resonant with tone & atmosphere’. http://vangogh.nl/ZctU50GQRUe
Vincent lived for a while in an inn in Auvers-sur-Oise with Mr and Mrs Ravoux. It was a lot cheaper than the town’s other inn: it only cost 3.5 francs a night with the Ravoux family, instead of 6 francs. 💰 Van Gogh liked it at the inn. 🌻 Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman (1890)
Folding laundry, a dull chore? Not like this! 🌙😉 The Laundry Night by Saja Marwan. #VanGoghInspires
💡Van Gogh’s interest in showing light-dark effects encouraged him to pay an evening visit to the cottage that was home to The Potato Eaters. The lamp above the table is the only source of light. He experimented with light effects before, like in this study 🌻 Woman Sewing (1885)
How to draw peasant’s faces just like Van Gogh did? Discover the second video from our ‘Drawing Peasant Life’ workshop series and get to work! http://vangogh.nl/CngS50GOy1b This drawing workshop series has been made possible by our main partner @VanLanschot
In his letters, Van Gogh often compared colour and music: 📝 ‘... this bloody mistral is a real nuisance for doing brushstrokes that hold together and intertwine well, with feeling, like a piece of music played with emotion’. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The White Orchard (1888).
📝Vincent: ‘What I want and set as my goal is damned difficult, and yet I don’t believe I’m aiming too high. I want to make drawings that move some people.’ 🌻 Woodcutter (1885).
Gauguin taught Van Gogh to paint from his imagination. Vincent always painted what he saw, but this time he painted a work from memory: ‘Gauguin […] has proved to me a little that it was time for me to vary things a bit – I’m beginning to compose from memory’. 🌻The Sower, 1888
After Vincent’s death, Theo wanted nothing more than to raise the profile of his brother’s work. But 6 months later, Theo also passed away. His widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, set about completing the task. Without her dedication, Vincent would never have been so famous. Irises, 1890
📝 ‘It tells us that winter is cold but that there are warm human hearts,’ Vincent wrote to his brother Theo in 1875. 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Snow-covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet) (1890)
Today, our website won four Lovie Awards (a.k.a. the European Oscars of the internet)! Congrats and thanks to the wonderful teams @DeptAgency, @q42 @q42 and @polteq. Congrats to all @lovieawards winners
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🥔 The New Potato Eaters!? Illustrator @FloorRieder created a contemporary version of Van Gogh's famous painting The Potato Eaters. Download the drawing as a colouring page for both adults and children: http://vangogh.nl/vBLe50GGNvU 🌻The Potato Eaters (1885) #exhibition #potatoeaters
The sad news reached us that Etel Adnan passed away. We've been working closely with Etel, because of our upcoming exhibition ‘Colour as Language’ which features Adnan’s works in dialogue with Van Gogh’s works. Our thoughts are with everyone close to her. Untitled, 2010 @mudamlux
How to Draw like Vincent van Gogh!? The ‘Drawing Peasant Life’ workshop series teaches you how to draw in the style of Van Gogh. Watch the 1st episode ‘Peasant’s Hands’ and get to work😀http://vangogh.nl/CngS50GOy1b This workshop has been made possible by our main partner @VanLanschot
Is this the same city? The 1st painting appears to be made in the countryside, but is actually painted in Paris! Van Gogh regularly visited the rural area of Montmartre. On the 2nd, we see a more recognisable image of the city🌻Montmartre: Windmills and Allotments & View of Paris
See the wall around the wheatfield? It surrounded the grounds of the asylum. Vincent painted this view from his room: ‘Through the iron-barred window I can make out a square of wheat in an enclosure […], above which in the morning I see the sun rise in its glory’.
One of our visitors told us: ‘I go to museums to stay active, to experience things. I wouldn’t be so keen to do things alone, but I enjoy going out with groups and chatting about what you’ve seen’. #VanGoghMuseumVisitorStories #exhibition #potatoeaters 📷 Maaike Koning
To see with the naked eye. While Vincent was painting at the beach, grains of sand blew onto his canvas. The brown, beige and black grains of sand can still be seen with the naked eye, as little see-through specks in the paint. 🌻 Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1888)
#vangoghinspires @jessewoolston : 'Inspired by how Van Gogh understood & depicted turbulence in The Starry Night, the piece articulates what he imagined through a physics simulation. This exercise also re-defines how we experience this natural law of turbulent flow through art.'
📝Vincent: ‘If I’ve now reached a point where, when I stand before an object or a figure, I feel within myself clearly, distinctly, without hesitation the power to draw it.’ What would you like to draw? 🌻 Head of a Fisherman with a Fringe of Beard and a Sou’wester (1883)
📝‘That’s how I see this. To keep on, keep on, that’s what’s needed.’ Vincent was inspired by light & relentlessly studied it. Our partner @ASMLcompany honors Van Gogh in the film ‘A letter to Brabant’. What do you think of it? More info: http://vangogh.nl/BVxY50GJfAX @VanGoghBrabant
In this drawing of a girl kneeling by a cradle, Van Gogh used natural chalk. 📝 ‘That natural chalk has a soul and life […] lots of sound or tone. I would almost say that natural chalk understands what one wants’, wrote Vincent. 🌻Girl Kneeling by a Cradle (1883)
🥔Onze partner @CelaVita_nl creëert de komende maanden extra aandacht voor onze tentoonstelling 'De aardappeleters: misser of meesterwerk?’ in hun marketingcampagne voor de vernieuwde kruimige aardappel. Heb jij de verpakking al gezien?
One of our visitors (76) tells us about her museum experience: ‘It brightens up my day. It’s simply fantastic how people can make things. That they have the talent. Like this painting: up close, it’s all dashes, but from further away you see the real picture’. 📷Tomek Dersu Aaron
Do you recognise this woman? Gordina de Groot features in Vincent’s ‘The Potato Eaters’. In that painting, she’s on the left, behind the table. She lived with her family in ‘The Cottage’, where Van Gogh prepared his painting. http://vangogh.nl/nQdC50GfIqy 🌻 Head of a Woman (1885)
Sorrow or beauty? Van Gogh made this lithograph of Sien Hoornik, a prostitute who he lived with. What makes the work special is that it’s not a portrait, but a personification of an emotion: sorrow. Vincent tried to express this feeling using bold lines & contours 🌻 Sorrow, 1882
💡 #QuizTime: Vincent never visited Japan, but Japanese art was a huge source of inspiration for him! That’s why he collected & studied Japanese prints. Where do you think he bought these prints? The Hague, Paris or Antwerp? 🌻 Flowering Plum Orchard (after Hiroshige) (1887)
Voel jij je verbonden met het leven & werk van Vincent van Gogh? Overweeg dan om ons museum op te nemen in jouw testament. Door een culturele instelling in je nalatenschap op te nemen, help je mee een nieuwe generatie te inspireren: http://vangogh.nl/OR4c50GFScv #nalatenaancultuur
Have you ever wondered what the light patches are on the overgrown ground? Van Gogh painted lighter spots where the sunlight shone through the trees. Vincent used strokes of paint in different colours to create a fascinating light effect. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Undergrowth (1889)
Step into Van Gogh’s World! This is a reconstruction of the cottage depicted in The Potato Eaters. Vincent spent many hours in this cottage. Can you imagine how they would've lived in such a snug space?🌻The Potato Eaters & The Cottage (1885) #potatoeaters http://vangogh.nl/nQdC50GfIqy
‘I feel a power in me that I must develop, a fire that I may not put out but must fan, although I don’t know to what outcome it will lead me’. #MondayMotivation 🎯 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait (1887)
Happy #Halloween!👻 Some eerie artworks from our French print collection to start the day with! Which one do you like best? 💀 Odilon Redon: http://vangogh.nl/fUZh50GB9kZ
See how Japan inspired Van Gogh! He thought that the drawings he made on the hill of Montmajour were his best works in pen. Vincent was inspired by the various types of lines used by the Japanese draughtsmen: http://vangogh.nl/WZiJ50GvXUb🌻The Rock of Montmajour with Pine Trees (1888)
Warp and weft! Counting the threads of Vincent’s painted canvases provides us with great insights into how he worked, and helps our researchers to determine the order in which Vincent produced his works.🌻Ploughed Fields (‘The Furrows’) (1888) & X-ray 🔍 http://vangogh.nl/FVXx50GvXiq
💡 #QuizTime: Vincent painted lots of flower still lifes during his time in Paris. Do you know how many? A. 19 B. 27 C. 35 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Gladioli and Chinese Asters (1886)
‘I told some visitors that Van Gogh tried to express 2 things in this landscape: extreme loneliness, but also how energising nature can be’, says educator Mirjam. ‘One visitor said that she recognised the feeling from her youth, when she lived on a farm’. 💛📷 Tomek Dersu Aaron.
Discover the @mandukayoga x Van Gogh Museum capsule collection! Inspired by 3 paintings Van Gogh made during his stay at a clinic in Saint-Rémy, as well as by his life, which was punctuated by periods of both mental vulnerability & strength. Find out more: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/about/collaborate/van-gogh-museum-brand-licenses/collaboration-license-partners/manduka-x-van-gogh-museum
See the house? Van Gogh rented this yellow house in Arles, in the South of France. He hoped to turn it into an artists’ house, where like-minded painters could live and work together. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (The Street) (1888) #seevangogh
#vangoghinspires What if Van Gogh would’ve seen succes in his time? With that question in mind artist Ernesto Lemke made this rendition in Lego during the art themed episode of the Dutch Legomasters tv series. What do you think of it?
Van Gogh only made a single etching during his time as an artist, that of 'Portrait of Doctor Gachet' (1890). It was Doctor Gachet himself who encouraged Vincent to make the etching. He experimented with different coloured ink & types of paper. 🌻 Portrait of Doctor Gachet (1890)
In this self-portrait, Vincent wanted to show that he was a modern artist, using a new painting style with bright colours. 📝 ‘quite unkempt and sad. […] You’ll say that this is something like, say, the face of – death’. 🌻 Self-Portrait as a Painter (1887-1888). #seevangogh
Discover the story behind Van Gogh’s world famous #potatoeaters painting! Bregje Gerritse, researcher & curator of the exhibition 'The Potato Eaters. Mistake or Masterpiece?', takes celebrity TV-chef @hugokennis on a private tour. Watch the complete tour: http://vangogh.nl/gMUy50GvVaB
