1889-1890 · 8 Gogh.art 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 Experimenter
- The Translator
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
- The Copyist
Irises
He made work a way of holding himself together. This is almost not a metaphor.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Translator
Cypresses
He did not find the tree first in his letters; he caught up to it, in the letters, as he painted.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
The Olive Groves
He had to get the tree right first. So he painted, among the olive trees, over and over.
- The Colour Experimenter
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Starry Night
About his most famous picture, he himself said little. Both of these things are true at once.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
The Saint-Rémy Copies
Within his confinement, by copying others, he discovered who he now was.
- The Copyist
- The Translator
The Night Before the Crisis
Some nodes are not about what he painted, but about the stretch of time when he could paint nothing.
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Hospital Garden
He was shut into a small place, and then he looked at that small place utterly.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
Almond Blossom
It was something he gave away, not something kept to be looked at — and that should not be left out.
- The Translator
- The Copyist