Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Art. Show all posts

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Great Peacock Moth - Van Gogh


We just learned about the painting of Irises by Van Gogh.

Another of Van Gogh's famous paintings is the Great Peacock Moth.

He painted it in 1889, when he made a few different paintings of butterflies and moths.

Van Gogh felt liked the idea of people transforming, so he liked thinking about the way caterpillars do that too.


(from: wikipedia - butterflies (van gogh series))


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Saturday, November 26, 2022

Irises - Van Gogh


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting of Trees and Undergrowth.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is of Irises.

He painted this when he was at the Saint-Paul Asylum, where he made lots of paintings of flowers.

Van Gogh liked to paint a lot and he thought it helped make him feel better.

He called it "the lightning conductor for my illness"


(from: wikipedia - irises (painting))


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Saturday, November 19, 2022

Trees and Undergrowth - Van Gogh


We just learned about the painting Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is Trees and Undergrowth, from 1887.

During his time at the Saint Remy, Van Gogh made some paintings of the outdoors, that were called sous-bois which is French for undergrowth.
This style of painting was used by a lot of other impressionists, and Van Gogh was making paintings in their style.


(from: wikipedia - trees and undergrowth)


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Saturday, November 12, 2022

Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital - Van Gogh


We just learned about the painting Trees in the Garden in Front of the Entrance to Saint-Paul Hospital.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is Pine Trees and Dandelions in the Garden of Saint-Paul Hospital.

Van Gogh was in the hospital for a long time, even through the winter.
So when the garden was not green and fresh, he painted the pine trees that were still green.


(from: wikipedia - saint-paul asylum, saint-remy (van gogh series))


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Saturday, November 5, 2022

Trees in the Garden in Front of the Entrance to Saint-Paul Hospital - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Van Gogh painting A Corner of Saint-Paul Hospital and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree.

Another of Van Gogh's famous paintings is Trees in the Garden in Front of the Entrance to Saint-Paul Hospital.

Van Gogh always loved gardens and felt that they had a special healing power.

When he was at the hospital, he looked at the garden many times and made paintings of the flowers and trees.


(from: wikipedia - saint-paul asylum, saint remy (van gogh series))


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Saturday, October 29, 2022

A Corner of Saint-Paul Hospital and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Corridor in Saint Paul Hospital.

Another of Van Gogh's famous paintings is called A Corner of Saint-Paul Hospital and the Garden with a Heavy, Sawed-Off Tree.

While he was in the hospital, one of the corners really stood out to him because of a hill with a tree that had been struck by lightning, some benches, and the colors in nature.


(from: wikipedia - saint-paul asylum, saint remy (van gogh series))


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Saturday, October 22, 2022

Corridor in Saint-Paul Hospital - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Van Gogh - Hospital at Saint-Rémy-de -Provence.

Another of Van Gogh's famous paintings from when he was in that hospital is the Corridor in Saint-Paul Hospital.

When he was in the hospital, there were hallways there that he thought felt very lonely, so he painted them to try and show how they made him feel.


(from: wikipedia - saint-paul asylum, saint-remy (van gogh series))


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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Van Gogh - Hospital at Saint-Rémy-de -Provence


We just learned about the Van Gogh - Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey.

Another Van Gogh's painting is of the Hospital at Saint-Rémy-de -Provence.

About 5 months after Van Gogh was in the hospital for his ear getting cut off, he went to an asylum where he could get help to get his mind right.

He stayed at this asylum for a year, and made many paintings while he was there.


(from: wikipedia - saint-paul asylum, saint-remy (van gogh series))


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Saturday, October 8, 2022

Van Gogh - Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting Garden of the Hospital in Arles.

Another one of Van Gogh's famous paintings is the Portrait of Dr. Felix Rey.

While he was in the hospital with his injured ear, there was a nice doctor who helped take care of Van Gogh.
He wrote about this doctor to his brother Theo and said he was "brave, hardworking, and always helping people".

So as a thank you to the doctor, Van Gogh made a portrait of Dr. Felix Rey and gave it to him.
The doctor's mother didn't like the portrait, and she used it to cover a hole in a chicken coop!

Later on the painting was sold to an art dealer, and today is worth over $50 million.


(from: wikipedia - hospital in arles)


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Saturday, October 1, 2022

Van Gogh - Garden of the Hospital in Arles


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting of Sunflowers.

Another of Van Gogh's famous paintings is the Garden of the Hospital in Arles.

In 1888, Van Gogh had a breakdown and cut off his ear.

He went to the hospital, and while he was there he made this famous painting.


(from: wikipedia - hospital in arles)


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Saturday, September 24, 2022

Sunflowers - Van Gogh


We just learned about the group of Van Gogh paintings called the Saintes-Maries.

Another bunch of paintings that Van Gogh made was of some Sunflowers.

Around 1888 he made four different sunflower paintings, each one just a little different.





(from: wikipedia - vincent van gogh)


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Saturday, September 17, 2022

Saintes-Maries - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Van Gogh paintings Langlois Bridge at Arles.

Another group of Van Gogh paintings is called Saintes-Maries.

In 1888 when Van Gogh was in France, he went on a trip to a town called Saintes-Maries that is on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
He made many paintings and drawings while he was there because he really liked the way the sea was so many colors like blue, pink, gray, green or purple.



(from: wikipedia - saintes-maries (van gogh series))


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Saturday, September 10, 2022

Langlois Bridge at Arles - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Van Gogh painting Bedroom in Arles.

Another group of paintings by Van Gogh is Langlois Bridge at Arles.

Van Gogh made 4 oil paintings, 1 drawing, and 4 water colors of this bridge.
When he was in France he saw this bridge over the water, and with the windmills drawbridges and cottages it reminded him of the Netherlands where he grew up.



(from: wikipedia - langlois bridge at arles)


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Saturday, September 3, 2022

Bedroom in Arles - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Van Gogh's Chair.

Another famous Van Gogh painting is Bedroom in Arles made in 1888.

This is a painting of Van Gogh's room when he was living in the Yellow House in France.

He actually painted this room three different times.




(from: wikipedia - bedroom in arles)


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Saturday, August 27, 2022

Van Gogh's Chair - Van Gogh


We just learned about the The Yellow House.

Another of his famous works of art is Van Gogh's Chair, painted in 1888 in Arles France.

It is a painting of a simple chair made of woven straw over a tile floor.
In the background is a box of onions, with the name "Vincent" on the box.


(from: wikipedia - van gogh's chair)


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Saturday, August 20, 2022

The Yellow House - Van Gogh


We just learned about the Portrait of Pere Tanguy.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings was The Yellow House made in 1888.

This house was a place that Van Gogh lived and painted in France, and worked with one of his friends Paul Gauguin for a while.


(from: wikipedia - the yellow house)


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Saturday, August 13, 2022

Portrait of Père Tanguy - Van Gogh


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting The Courtesan (after Eisen).

Another of his paintings was the Portrait of Père Tanguy, painted in 1887.

When Van Gogh moved from the Netherlands to France, he lived in Paris where he got to see a lot of different styles of paintings.
One of the art dealers that worked there was named Julien Tanguy. He was such a friendly person that people called him Pere Tanguy which means Father Tanguy.

Van Gogh made three different paintings of Tanguy, and his style changed a lot between each painting as he started to learn different types of art in Paris.

The first painting is mostly brown with just a little bit of color, making him look like a worker.
The second painting has a lot more colors, and other paintings in the background.
The third painting shows some of the impressionist and Japanese styles that he was learning in Paris.




(from: wikipedia - )


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Saturday, August 6, 2022

The Courtesan (after Eisen) - Van Gogh


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting Still Life with Straw Hat.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is The Courtesan (after Eisen) made in 1885.

For a while Van Gogh got really interested in art from Japan, and started trying to copy it and make some of his own painting in Japanese style. He called the paintings Japonaiserie, which means like Japanesery.

The most famous of his paintings was the Courtesan, that he made after copying a magazine cover that had the same person on the front cover.


(from: wikipedia - japonaiserie (van gogh))


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Saturday, July 30, 2022

Still Life with Straw Hat - Van Gogh


We just learned about the painting Still Life with Earthenware and Bottles.

Another of Van Gogh's still life paintings was Still Life with Straw Hat painted in 1885 in Neunen.

When Van Gogh was teaching some of his friends in the town of Eindhoven how to paint, he made a bunch of paintings himself.
This painting shows some nice smooth brush strokes and lots of light and dark shading of colors.


(from: wikipedia - still life with straw hat)


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Saturday, July 23, 2022

Still Life with Earthenware and Bottles - Van Gogh


We just learned about Van Gogh's painting Head of a Peasant Woman with a White Cap.

Another of Van Gogh's paintings is Still Life with Earthenware and Bottles, made in Amsterdam in 1884.

This painting is part of a bunch of paintings by Van Gogh called Still Life Paintings.
For a while he lived in the town of Neunen, and made a bunch of paintings of things like bottles, bowls and fruit.
All of these things were not moving, which is why the painting type is called still life.

He tried to do a lot of contrasting to show different colors against each other, like green next to red, and he tried to work on different shades of light showing on the things in his pictures.
While he was in Neunen he also helped to teach some other people how to be painters.


(from: wikipedia - still life paintings by vincent van gogh (netherlands))


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