Years
Van Gogh Years
Read Van Gogh by year: each year compresses works, letters, places and changes in ability.
11years · 1874-1890
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1874 1874 is an early turn of heartbreak and intensive reading, where the Van Gogh who processes the world through texts begins to appear. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic Precision -
1879 1879 brings him into mining country and marginal life, making religious impulse, poverty and bodily labour part of his later visual ethics. Synaesthetic PrecisionThe Ferocious Reader -
1880 This year gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters, places and shifts in ability within the same period. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic Precision -
1882 This year gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters, places and shifts in ability within the same period. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic PrecisionThe Copyist -
1884 This year gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters, places and shifts in ability within the same period. The Ferocious ReaderSynaesthetic PrecisionThe Colour Experimenter -
1885 1885 is the height of the dark Nuenen world: peasants, weavers and The Potato Eaters turn painting into an ethical burden. The Ferocious ReaderThe Colour ExperimenterThe Copyist -
1886 This year gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters, places and shifts in ability within the same period. The Colour ExperimenterThe TranslatorSynaesthetic Precision -
1887 This year gathers Van Gogh’s works, letters, places and shifts in ability within the same period. The TranslatorThe Colour ExperimenterThe Ferocious Reader -
1888 1888 is the Arles burst: sunflowers, night scenes, the Yellow House, the Roulin family, Gauguin and Japanese method press into one year. The TranslatorThe Colour ExperimenterSynaesthetic Precision -
1889 1889 compresses space into Saint-Rémy while intensifying copying, cypresses, irises, olive groves and the starry night. The Colour ExperimenterThe TranslatorSynaesthetic Precision -
1890 1890 is the final seventy days in Auvers: speed, farewell, doctor, wheat fields, church, tree roots and rain arrive together. The TranslatorThe CopyistThe Colour Experimenter