Paintings of 1888

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The Lady of Shalott is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The contemporary painter John William Waterhouse has portrayed the poem on the canvas. The poem is about a cursed lady who lives isolated on an island in a castle. She is lonely and the local farmer doesn’t know about her existence as she lives in isolation. As the poem describes because of the curse upon her, she is not allowed to directly see the world. But, to do that she uses a mirror and by the glancing at those reflections she keeps weaving the images. But, one day when she sees Lancelot, the knight she can’t resist herself and goes outside. To pursue the knight, she takes a boat and […]

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The gloomy artist Vincent Van Gogh was, the gloomier paintings he created. The Night Café, at first sight seems to be a casual scene of a night café but as we examine every part and object of the painting, we come to understand that this rather light painting has dark faces situated in it. Theme of the Painting The central figure being an old man gazing at the viewer with pale, sick face has a poor appearance. The couple on left side seems to be lost in themselves. The lonely figure beside them seems unenthusiastic about everything with his posture. On the lower right corner, the two guys also aren’t having the best buddy-time as one has lifted his hand to his forehead – a […]

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This is supposedly the first and the only painting by Vincent van Gogh which he sold during his lifetime. Against the sky-high prices we see now for a Van Gogh work, at the time Van Gogh sold it for 400 francs to a Belgian lady painter Anna Boch. She was a collector of good art-works and admirer of young artists of her time. Another painting owned by Anna Boch was The Peach Blossoms in the Crau. Vincent van Gogh painted this piece from his memory and some aspects of imagination. It was created at The Yellow House in Arles, France.

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Yellow house is a place where Vincent van Gogh wanted to start the ‘studio of the south’ and also the place where he attacked his painter friend Paul Gauguin in a mad rush resulting in his his cut ear. The painting is beautiful and one of the popular by van Gogh. The Yellow House analysis The painting is based on the building where Van gogh stayed for some time in Arles, France. Allegedly, he wanted to establish a ‘studio of the south’ at the house and call his painter friends. The place was ideal for him to paint. It was a quiet street without much disturbance. There are two apparent dominant colors. The pale yellowness of the houses and the roads and the dark blue […]

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Among the many series of self-portraits, family members, peasants, still-life, cypresses and farmers there, he produced a series of sunflowers proclaiming: “You may know that the peony is Jeannin’s, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is mine in a way.” The current still-life painting is from the same series being as the forth version of the sunflowers. He painted it while his stay in Arles in 1888 just two years before his death. His fascination towards sunflowers was due to his intention to decorate his house just before his beloved friend Paul Gauguin (the same friend with whom he had the infamous fight) intended to come at his house for some times. There is his signature visible on the left side of the […]

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