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Vincent van Gogh Autumn Landscape Painting |
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Painting
Title: Autumn Landscape 1885
Oil on Canvas, 64x89cm - 25x35 inches (approx)
Vincent van Gogh
Famous Dutch artist - Post Impressionist painter
(click on painting for a larger image of "Autumn
Landscape")
About the Autumn Landscape Painting
The Autumn Landscape is one of Vincent van
Gogh's earlier works, where he was painting
in more of an impressionist manner, with more
details and less color than his later works.
Van Gogh was pleased with the results of this
particular painting which he talks about in
a letter to Theo below.
Van Gogh wrote about the Autumn Landscape
painting in a letter to his brother Theo van
Gogh in 1885, saying "I think that
I am making progress with my work. Last night
something happened to me which I will tell
you as minutely as I can. You know those three
pollard oaks at the bottom of the garden at
home; I have plodded on them for the fourth
time. I had been at them for three days with
a canvas the size of, lets say, the cottage,
and the country church-yard which you have.
The difficulty was the tufts of havana leaves,
to model them and give them form, color, tone.
Then in the evening I took it to that acquaintance
of mine in Eindhoven, who has a rather stylish
drawing room, where we put it on the wall
(gray paper, furniture black with gold). Well,
never before was I so convinced that I shall
make things that do well, that I shall succeed
in calculating my colors, so that I have it
in my power to make the right effect." |
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