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Vincent van Gogh Church Painting |
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Painting
Title: The Church at Auvers 1890
Oil on Canvas, 94 x 74cm - 37 x 29 Inches
(approx)
Vincent van Gogh
Famous Dutch artist - Post Impressionist painter
About the The Church at Auvers Painting
Vincent van Gogh painted the church in Auvers
during the last year of his life. The artist
was struggling with mental illness and emotional
problems. Rather than the church looking like
a place of refuge and solace, Vincent has
showed it as a place of impending doom and
gloom.
Van Gogh wrote about the Church at Auvres
in a letter to his sister, saying "I
have a larger picture of the village church..
an effect in which the building appears to
be violet hued against a sky of simple deep
blue color, pure cobalt; the stained-glass
windows appear as ultramarine blotches, the
roof is violet and partly orange. In the foreground
some green plants in bloom, and sand with
the pink flow of sunshine in it. And once
again it is nearly the same thing as the studies
I did in Nuenen of the old tower and the cemetery,
only it is probably that now the color is
more expressive, more sumptuous." |
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