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Discover Etel Adnan’s colourful artworks in combination with those of Vincent van Gogh. Our new exhibition 'Colour as Language' is now on view: https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/visit/whats-on/exhibitions/colour-as-language
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec got to know Van Gogh at Fernand Cormon’s studio, where they both studied. They probably worked closely together for a while, as the style and technique of their paintings in this period look very similar.
Van Gogh wanted to master painting figures and portraits. To prepare for his painting of a peasant family, ‘The Potato Eaters’, he made some 50 studies of people who worked on nearby farms.
After leaving the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Vincent headed to Auvers-sur-Oise. While he stayed in the town, he was cared for by Doctor Gachet, who encouraged him to paint a lot. And that’s exactly what he did.
Colour as Language: First Retrospective Exhibition of Etel Adnan alongside Works by Vincent van Gogh. Read more:
Colour as Language: First Retrospective Exhibition of Etel Adnan alongside Works by Vincent van Gogh
Press release: From 20 May 2022, the Van Gogh Museum presents Colour as Language, a retrospective of work by art...
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'What keeps us working is friendship for one another and love of nature’.
🌻Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses and Two Women (1890)
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Like Van Gogh, Gauguin used colours in a remarkable way: not necessarily based on reality. This man is probably Joseph Ginoux, a café owner and friend of Van Gogh.
🖼️Paul Gauguin, Portrait of a man (1888)
Van Gogh painted this work near Arles. He moved to the town with the idea of starting an artists’ house. However, his dream of a ‘Studio in the South’ fell to pieces when only one painter came to stay: Paul Gauguin.
In the first months of 1887, Van Gogh made two paintings of bulbs in a basket: crocus and hyacinth bulbs. The bulbs are yet to sprout, but promise a colourful spring!
📝‘If you wake up in the morning and you’re not alone & you see in the twilight a fellow human being, it makes the world so much more agreeable’, wrote Vincent to Theo. Van Gogh was unlucky in love, but he was certainly loved by his brother. 🌻Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom (1888)
We are very glad to announce that the official Meet Vincent Van Gogh Experience will be travelling to South America for the first time, after touring different countries around the world. Read more:
Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience Travels to South America for the First Time
*Meet Vincent van Gogh*, the official 3D experience created by the Van Gogh Museum, opens in the Chilean capital of Santiago on 1 July 2022.
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Etienne-Lucien Martin owned a restaurant in Paris, where Van Gogh was a regular customer. Martin allowed him to hold an exhibition of his own work and that of his friends. Soon after the exhibition opened, they quarrelled.
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'People strengthen each other when they work together, and an entitity is formed without personality having to be blotted out by the collaboration'. #vangoghquotes 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Landscape with Peasant Women Harvesting (1890)
Van Gogh was greatly inspired by Japanese prints. Japanese artists liked to take their subjects from nature, like flowers and birds. These were traditionally pictured together, sometimes with a poem.
Emile Bernard painted this self-portrait about two years after Vincent van Gogh died. In addition to paintings and drawings, Bernard also made tapestries and woodcarvings.
🖼️ Emile Bernard, Self-Portrait (c. 1892)
Inspired by what he learned at the studio of French painter Fernand Cormon, Vincent started experimenting with colour. His darker paintings made way for bright and colourful works.
🌻Vincent van Gogh, Boulevard de Clichy (1887)
📝 Van Gogh said that landscapes like this had a ‘healthy and fortifying’ effect on him. The overwhelming emotions that he experienced in nature had a positive impact on his own shaky state of mind. What effect does this landscape have on you? Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, 1890
'Van Gogh hoped that these paintings of fruit trees would sell well: 📝 ‘you know these subjects are among the ones that cheer everyone up’. He painted no less than 14 in just a month.
What cheers you up?
🌻Vincent van Gogh, The Pink Orchard (1888)
People say – and I’m quite willing to believe it – that it’s difficult to know oneself – but it’s not easy to paint oneself either’. #vangoghquotes 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Grey Felt Hat (1887)
'the painter of the future is a colourist such as there hasn’t been before’, wrote Van Gogh in 1888. In fact, he turned out to be that painter! A shining example for countless artists.
🌻Vincent van Gogh, The Zouave (1888)
This chubby baby was the youngest child of the postman Joseph Roulin, who sent Van Gogh's paintings from Arles to Paris. The two men became friends. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Marcelle Roulin (1888)
It’s nearly Mother’s Day! On Sunday 8 May, it’s time to celebrate mums and let them shine. Discover our very latest items and special discounts: https://www.vangoghmuseumshop.com/en/mothersday
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Garden of Saint Paul's Hospital ('Leaf-Fall') (1889)
Van Gogh chose a high viewpoint for this work, so the outlines of the trunks are cut off by the upper and lower edges of the painting. He had learned this compositional technique from Japanese prints and the work of his friends, the artists Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin.
‘The olive trees are very characteristic, and I’m struggling to capture that’, wrote Vincent to Theo from Saint-Rémy in 1889. Take a good look at this painting. What colours do you see?
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Olive Grove (1889)
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Around 15,000 sewing and shank buttons were used to create this artwork! What do you think of it?
📝 ‘It’s a wonderful thing to look at something and find it beautiful, to reflect on it and hold it fast and then to say: I’m going to draw that, and then to work on it until it’s done’. Van Gogh intensely enjoyed his work. Is there something that you can get completely lost in?
Today it's #WorldBookDay! 📚 Looking for an inspiring book to read? Several books to deepen and expand your love for Vincent van Gogh are available for free: http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/visit/whats-on/book-club 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, 'Piles of French Novels', 1887
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Old Vineyard with Peasant Woman (1890)
Van Gogh also focused on colours in his drawings. He began this drawing in pencil before adding oil paint and watercolour in many different shades of blue. Vincent painted the roofs red, to contrast with the blue. The roofs have since faded to brown.
'It often seems to me that the night is much more alive and richly coloured than the day.' #vangoghquotes 🌌
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Almond trees flower early in spring. When Vincent was in Arles in March 1888, he painted a sprig of almond. There was still snow on the ground, but the tree was already flowering. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Sprig of Flowering Almond in a Glass (1888)
Humour & death. A good combination? Van Gogh made this curious study while at the art academy in Antwerp. He’s done an impressive job of painting the anatomy of the skeleton. As a joke – perhaps to annoy his teacher? – Vincent added a burning cigarette.
Happy Easter! 🐣🌷 #vangoghinspires Kenzy Turky
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What strikes you about this portrait of Paul Gauguin? Van Gogh painted his artist friend in their studio at the Yellow House.
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Gauguin (1888)
When Vincent lived in Paris, he wanted to paint portraits, but he didn’t often get the chance. So when he had the opportunity to paint Léonie Rose Charbuy-Davy, he went for it! She was the niece of an art dealer who sometimes exhibited Van Gogh’s paintings.
📝‘And while my illness was at its worst, I still painted, among other things a reminiscence of Brabant, cottages with mossy roofs and beech hedges on an autumn evening with a stormy sky, the sun setting red in reddish clouds’, wrote Vincent to his mother and sister.
Van Gogh wanted to create portraits that moved people. He wrote, 📝‘I’ve always had the belief that through portraits one learns to reflect.’ Is this true for our photos today? 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of a One-Eyed Man (1889)
📝 ‘I missed you the first few days, and it was strange for me not to find you when I came home in the afternoon’, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in 1872.
Who are you missing at the moment? 🌻Vincent van Gogh, Houses Seen from the Back (1885-1886) #vangoghmuseum
We are collaborating with the Foundation for Hospital Art (FFHA) to brighten up the walls of hospitals and healthcare institutions worldwide with canvases inspired by Van Gogh’s works. Read more: http://vangogh.nl/aUZF50IGabo @Hospital_Art @ASMLcompany
📝 ‘It’s a wonderful thing to look at something and find it beautiful, to reflect on it and hold it fast and then to say: I’m going to draw that, and then to work on it until it’s done’. Van Gogh intensely enjoyed his work. Is there something that you can get completely lost in?
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Cypresses and Two Women (1890)
📝 ‘But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more’. In this letter to his brother Theo, Vincent emphasised how important it is to love those close to you. 💛
Vincent examines you with one blue and one green eye. 👁️Why do you think that he chose to give his irises two different colours? After all, we know that Vincent’s eyes were green. 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887) #vangoghmuseum
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (The Street) (1888)
This painting shows Van Gogh’s Yellow House. With the steam train down the road and the people on the street, it must have been a noisy part of town. Can you imagine the urban sounds that would have surrounded Vincent while he was painting?
📝 'What would life be if we didn’t dare to take things in hand?’, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in 1881. That was the year that he truly set to work as an artist. 🖌️ #MondayMotivation And we all know how that worked out! 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Sunflowers (1889)
Open up with Vincent is a programme with which the Van Gogh Museum aims to contribute to an open dialogue on mental health, based on Vincent van Gogh’s life story and art. Read More:
Open Up with Vincent
The mental health programme includes mindfulness sessions, meditation videos, creative workshops and teaching resources.
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🌿Even in Paris, Van Gogh was always in search of nature, if only in the form of an urban park. Here, he painted using little dots and dashes. He picked up this way of painting from the Neo-Impressionists.
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Undergrowth (1887)
