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The Yellow House (Dutch: Het gele huis), alternatively named The Street (Dutch: De straat), [1] [2] is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles , France, where, on May 1, 1888, van Gogh rented four rooms.
Décoration for the Yellow House was the main project Vincent van Gogh focused on in Arles, from August 1888 until his breakdown the day before Christmas. This Décoration had no pre-defined form or size; the central idea of the Décoration grew step by step, with the progress of his work.
Van Gogh depicts Adeline, rather than a photographic resemblance, with "impassioned aspects" of contemporary life through the "modern taste for color." [49] Van Gogh wrote to his brother: “Last week I did a portrait of a girl about sixteen, in blue against a blue background, the daughter of the people with whom I am staying. I have given her ...
A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background Artist Vincent van Gogh Year 1882 Catalogue F13 JH179 Medium Oil on canvas on panel Dimensions 42.0 cm × 53.0 cm (16.5 in × 20.9 in) Location Villa Flora, Winterthur A Girl in the Street, Two Coaches in the Background (F13, JH179) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh. It is one of his very early works, painted in The Hague in August 1882 ...
Les Arènes is a painting by Vincent van Gogh executed in Arles, in November or December 1888, during the period of time when Paul Gauguin was living with him in The Yellow House. The bullfight season in Arles that year started on Easter Sunday 1 April and ended on 21 October. [ 1 ]
The pieces range from close up oil painting portraits of the Zouave to full-body drawings. Van Gogh produced this collection of pieces during the period he spent in southern France, which many scholars regard as the zenith of his artistic career. [1]: 11 Van Gogh nonetheless expressed frustration about his work during this time.
Valley with Ploughman Seen from Above or Landscape with House and Ploughman (Dutch - Landschap met een huis en een ploeger in vogelvlucht gezien) is an 1889 [1] oil on canvas painting by Vincent van Gogh, produced during the autumn of his stay in Saint-Rémy. Its catalogue numbers are F 727 and JH 1877. It is now in the Hermitage Museum. [2]
A yellow house stands at the side of the lane. The use of color in the painting is typical of Van Gogh in this period. The colors are bright and alive, lighting up the canvas and offering a view that is more perceived than experienced. The idyllic nature of the moment is thus conveyed in the use of colors.