Places

Van Gogh Places

Read Van Gogh by place: each city is a phase, and a field of pressure for seeing, reading and painting.

10places · 1879-1890

  1. London 1874 · 1 nodes London London is an early turn of feeling and reading: heartbreak, books and urban distance begin to shape the Van Gogh who processes the world through texts. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic Precision
  2. Cuesmes 1879-1880 · 2 nodes Cuesmes Cuesmes is the ground before the painter emerges: mining country, poverty, religious impulse and bodily labour form the depths of his later visual ethics. Synaesthetic PrecisionThe Ferocious Reader
  3. The Hague 1882 · 2 nodes The Hague The Hague connects training, figures, poverty and experiments in living, turning painting from a vocation into a practice carried inside reality. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic PrecisionThe Copyist
  4. Nuenen 1884-1885 · 3 nodes Nuenen Nuenen holds the dark world of labour: potato eaters, peasants, weavers and the ethical ground beneath the later colour explosions. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic PrecisionThe Colour Experimenter
  5. Antwerp 1885 · 1 nodes Antwerp Antwerp is a brief but sharp transition: academy training, museum experience and bodily strain push him toward the threshold before Paris. The TranslatorThe Colour ExperimenterThe Ferocious Reader
  6. Paris 1886-1887 · 4 nodes Paris Paris is the quick turn toward colour and modern vision: flowers, prints, urban looking and new painterly companions enter his system here. The Colour ExperimenterThe TranslatorSynaesthetic Precision
  7. Asnieres 1887 · 1 nodes Asnieres This place gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters and shifts in ability within the same geographical phase. The Colour ExperimenterThe TranslatorSynaesthetic Precision
  8. Arles 1888 · 10 nodes Arles Arles is the site’s densest geographical burst: night scenes, sunflowers, the Yellow House, the Roulin family and the life with Gauguin press against one another here. The TranslatorThe Colour ExperimenterSynaesthetic Precision
  9. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence 1889-1890 · 8 nodes Saint-Rémy-de-Provence Saint-Rémy compresses Van Gogh’s physical range into the asylum, the room and nearby fields, while intensifying copying, cypresses, irises and the starry night. The Colour ExperimenterThe TranslatorSynaesthetic Precision
  10. Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 · 8 nodes Auvers-sur-Oise Auvers is the high-pressure field of the final seventy days: church, wheat fields, Dr Gachet, tree roots and rain bring speed, farewell and seeing together. The Colour ExperimenterSynaesthetic PrecisionThe Ferocious Reader