Винсент Ван Гог - Фермерский дом в Провансе 1888

Arles: View from the Wheat Fields 1888 Bridge at Trinquetaille 1888 Canal with Women Washing 1888 Farmhouse in Provence 1888 Girl with Ruffled Hair. The Mudlark 1888 Green Ears of Wheat 1888 Harvest at La Crau, with Montmajour in the Background 1888
Винсент Ван Гог - Фермерский дом в Провансе 1888

Фермерский дом в Провансе 1888
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National Gallery of Art, Washington

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From National Gallery of Art, Washington:
Van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888, the landscape covered with snow. But it was sun that he sought in Provence—a brilliant light that would wash out detail and simplify forms, reducing the world around him to the kinds of flat patterns he admired in Japanese woodblock prints. Arles, he said, was "the Japan of the South." Van Gogh's time in Arles was amazingly productive. In about 15 months—just 444 days—he produced more than 200 paintings, about 100 drawings, and wrote more than 200 letters.
He described a series of seven studies of wheat fields: "landscapes, yellow—old gold—done quickly, quickly, quickly, and in a hurry just like the harvester who is silent under the blazing sun, intent only on the reaping." Yet he was also at pains to point out that these works should not be "criticized as hasty" since this "quick succession of canvases [was] quickly executed but calculated long beforehand."
Pairs of complementary colors—the red and green of the plants, the woven highlights of oranges and blue in the fence, even the pink clouds that enliven the turquoise sky—shimmer and seem almost to vibrate against each other. The impressionists used this technique to enhance the luminosity of their pictures. Pissarro, who helped introduce Van Gogh to these concepts, noted, "if I didn't know how colors behaved from the researches of...scientists, we [the impressionists] would not have been able to pursue our study of light with so much confidence."