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As Vincent rose to the height of his career, he enjoyed passing on prized paintings to his family. "Great bouquets of flowers, violet-colored irises, great bouquets of roses," went to his mother. [9] Another example, "the most resolved and stylized of the three" paintings of women picking olives was made for his sister and mother. [10] [11]
Like the painting First Steps, the painting Night or Evening: The Watch depicts happy life of a rural family: father, mother and child. Here the image seems bathed in yellow light like that of the Holy Family. [37] A lamp casts long shadows of many colors on the floor of the humble cottage. The painting includes soft shades of green and purple.
Portrait of the Artist's Mother is a painting Vincent van Gogh made in 1888 of his mother, Anna Carbentus van Gogh, from a black-and-white photograph. In September 1888, Van Gogh, answering to a letter of his sister Wil who had told him of a recent photograph of their mother, asked for a print. [ 29 ]
Van Gogh used Sien, a pregnant prostitute, as a model for his work and later took Sien and her daughter into his home. Van Gogh made drawings and paintings of Sien and her daughter, baby and mother over that period, which reflected the domestic life and hardships of the working poor .
Giorgio Vasari, visiting Cremona, was a guest in the house of Amilcare Anguissola and there admired paintings by Amilcare's daughters.About The Game of Chess he wrote, "I have seen this year in Cremona, in the house of her father a painting made with much diligence, the depiction of his three daughters, in the act of playing chess, and with them an old housemaid, done with such diligence and ...
His mother explained that the toddler pointed out two of his paintings from among thousands on display at the Munich art fair last month. “He went straight up to them and said ‘Laurent painted ...
North West is continuing to hone her artistic talents! The 10-year-old daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West has been painting for years and on Sunday, her famous mom posted a pic of her ...
Vincent's figures are generally taken to be his mother and sister Willemien. Vincent 's biographer Marc Edo Tralbaut, however, was of the opinion that the younger woman was, consciously or unconsciously, a representation of Kee Vos Stricker. [8] [9] Vincent was somewhat enigmatic on the subject in a letter to his sister: [Letters 1]