7 Gogh.art nodes · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
1889
1889 compresses space into Saint-Rémy while intensifying copying, cypresses, irises, olive groves and the starry night.
- The Colour Experimenter
- The Translator
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
- The Copyist
Irises
In his first letter from Saint-Rémy, two garden paintings were already under way.
- 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
Rather than reconstruct a historical Garden of Olives, he returned to the ones in front of him.
- 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
The source could be black and white; the colour answer had to be his own.
- The Copyist
- The Translator
The Night Before the Crisis
The crisis appears in the archive between letters and paintings, not as an empty interval outside them.
- Synaesthetic Precision
The Hospital Garden
After his range became smaller, he looked at that small place more thoroughly.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Colour Experimenter