1882-1890 · 17 Gogh.art nodes
Copying
Copying is not leftover training, but one of Van Gogh’s core methods: he translates Millet, Japanese prints and earlier images into his own language of colour.
- The Ferocious Reader
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Copyist
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Translator
Worn Out
He is not describing suffering. He wants to know what to call that thing.
- The Ferocious Reader
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Weavers
He painted the same proportion over and over, and in the end took no side.
- The Ferocious Reader
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Potato Eaters
The picture brought him no success, but he finally knew what he was painting for.
- The Ferocious Reader
- The Colour Experimenter
The Self-Portraits
He was not searching for who he was; he was using his own face to do something technical.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Translator
Japanese Print Translations
He went to Arles because he believed it was the place he had seen in the prints.
- The Translator
- The Copyist
Orchards in Bloom
At the best of his time in Arles he felt it himself — but he did not know what to call it.
- The Translator
- The Colour Experimenter
The Sower Motif
He painted the sower many times in his life, but each time was not repetition — it was using one figure to test who he was at that moment.
- The Copyist
- The Colour Experimenter
The Sunflower Decoration
He painted the welcome ahead of time, and then waited for it to be seen.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Ferocious Reader
The Roulin Family
He was not painting himself an imagined family — he was painting, for the few who really stayed, a portrait that might make a person stay.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Copyist
Starry Night over the Rhône
At night, by gaslight, before the night sky, he painted the night. That alone should not be left out.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Ferocious Reader
Gauguin Arrives
Two painters look at the same scene and paint two completely different worlds. This matters more than what came after — but what came after covered it over.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Ferocious Reader
La Berceuse
He kept designing what others would feel on seeing his pictures — only the "others" grew harder and harder to have present.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Copyist
Gauguin Leaves
After that night, Arles was, in a sense, over. Soon after leaving the hospital he picked up the brush again.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter
The Wheat Fields
He said he wanted to paint consolation, but what he painted was wind.
- 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
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
Daubigny's Garden
He added that black cat — but why, no one is sure.
- The Copyist
- The Colour Experimenter