Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
You can see five such self-portraits in the Van Gogh Museum's online collection. In July 2022 a hidden self-portrait was discovered in the collection of The National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in the winter of 1887–88, when he had been in Paris for almost two years. It is clear from the work that he had studied the technique of the Pointillists and applied it in his own, original way. He placed the short stripes of paint in different directions.
Vincent van Gogh Self-Portrait as a Painter. Read more about this painting, zoom in, view Vincent for scale.
After practising with different flowers, he chose a specific variety: the sunflower. His fellow painters thought that sunflowers were perhaps somewhat coarse and unrefined. But this is exactly what Vincent liked, and he also enjoyed painting flowers that had gone to seed.
Van Gogh saw the _Potato Eaters_ as a showpiece, for which he deliberately chose a difficult composition to prove he was on his way to becoming a good figure painter. The painting had to depict the harsh reality of country life, so he gave the peasants coarse faces and bony, working hands.
Wheatfield with Crows is one of Van Gogh's most famous paintings. It is often claimed that this was his very last work. The menacing sky, the crows and the dead-end path are said to refer to the end of his life approaching.
This skeleton with a lit cigarette in its mouth is a juvenile joke. Van Gogh painted it in early 1886, while studying at the art academy in Antwerp.
In addition to two self-portraits of him with his bandaged ear, Vincent created this still life with onions. He included mostly personal objects, such as his pipe and tobacco. Placed beside these are the envelope of a letter by his brother Theo, an empty bottle of absinthe, and a popular handbook that he consulted for self-medication.
The self-portrait is unmistakably the work of Van Gogh and was painted by him at the end of August 1889. The somewhat unusual type of canvas, the pigments, the sombre palette and the brushwork are all in keeping with his output in the late summer and autumn of that year.
In exchange, Vincent offered a self-portrait in which he painted himself as a Japanese monk, with epicanthic folds and cropped hair. Use the up and down keys to compare the two images. Vincent van Gogh, Butterflies and Poppies , 1889.