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Van Gogh Inspirations, Sampaloc, Manila (2026)

08/01/2023

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26/12/2022

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08/12/2022

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04/12/2022

𝐇𝐚𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠

Léon-Augustin Lhermitte (1844 - 1925), 1887

oil on canvas, 215.9 cm x 265.8 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

This enormous painting by the French artist Léon Lhermitte shows a family of peasants resting during haymaking. The work probably has a symbolic element too, evoking youth, maturity and old age. The old man at the front holds a scythe, a traditional symbol of approaching death. This kind of symbolism and the emphasis on the romantic, idyllic side of peasant life made works of this type extremely popular in the late nineteenth century. The Haymakers won the Grand Prix at the 1889 World Exhibition in Paris.

Lhermitte became a famous painter of rural life. According to Vincent van Gogh, the French artist’s secret was ‘that he knows the figure in general – namely the sturdy, severe workman’s figure – through and through, and takes his subjects from the heart of the people.’

Van Gogh too hoped to establish himself as a painter of peasant life, and so Lhermitte’s work was an important source of inspiration to him. He regularly asked his brother Theo to send him reproductions of Lhermitte’s paintings.

03/12/2022

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, November 1888

oil on canvas, 32.5 cm x 40.3 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh had a special interest in sowers throughout his artistic career. All in all, he made more than 30 drawings and paintings on this theme. He painted this sower in the autumn of 1888. At the time, Van Gogh was working together with Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). Gauguin believed that in his work Van Gogh should draw less on reality and more on his imagination.

Here, Van Gogh used colours meant to express emotion and passion. He assigned the leading roles to the greenish-yellow of the sky and the purple of the field. The bright yellow sun looks like a halo, turning the sower into a saint.

02/12/2022

𝐒𝐡𝐨𝐞𝐬

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, September-November 1886

oil on canvas, 38.1 cm x 45.3 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Worn-out shoes were an unusual choice of subject for a painting. An acquaintance of Van Gogh's in Paris described how he bought old work shoes at a flea market. Then he walked through the mud in them until they were filthy. Only then did he feel they were interesting enough to paint. Van Gogh made a number of still lifes of this subject.

He painted Shoes over another picture: a view from his brother Theo's apartment. Van Gogh used the same canvas more than once on other occasions too. It was a way of saving money.

01/12/2022

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐲 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐭 𝐇𝐚𝐭

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, September-October 1887

oil on cotton, 44.5 cm x 37.2 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh painted this self-portrait in the winter of 1887–88, when he had been in Paris for almost two years. It is clear from the work that he had studied the technique of the Pointillists and applied it in his own, original way. He placed the short stripes of paint in different directions. Where they follow the outline of his head, they form a kind of halo.

The painting is also one of Van Gogh’s boldest colour experiments in Paris. He placed complementary colours alongside one another using long brushstrokes: blue and orange in the background, and red and green in the beard and eyes. The colours intensify one another. The red pigment has faded, so the purple strokes are now blue, which means the contrast with the yellow is less powerful.

30/11/2022

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐝 (𝐋𝐞𝐬 𝐦𝐢𝐬é𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬)

Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903), Pont-Aven, 1888

oil on canvas, 44.5 cm x 50.3 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh knew that Japanese printmakers often exchanged work with one another. The idea appealed to him, so he suggested that he, Paul Gauguin and Emile Bernard should do the same: ‘It clearly proves that they liked one another and stuck together, and that there was a certain harmony among them [. . .] The more we resemble them in that respect, the better it will be for us.’ His friends both sent self-portraits, with a likeness of the other artist in the background.

Gauguin painted himself in the guise of Jean Valjean, the main character of Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables, equating the vibrant and loving fictional outcast with the misunderstood artists of his time. He wrote: ‘By doing him with my features, you have my individual image, as well as a portrait of us all, poor victims of society, taking our revenge on it by doing good’. The cheerful floral pattern on the wall was Gauguin’s way of testifying to ‘our artistic virginity’.

Van Gogh was impressed by the portrait’s melancholy character. He described the shadows in Gauguin’s face as ‘lugubriously tinged with blue’ and noted that he looked ill and tormented.’

29/11/2022

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, October 1888

oil on canvas, 72.4 cm x 91.3 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

While he was in Arles, Van Gogh made this painting of his bedroom in the Yellow House. He prepared the room himself with simple furniture and with his own work on the wall. The bright colours were meant to express absolute ‘repose’ or ‘sleep’. Research shows that the strongly contrasting colours we see in the work today are the result of discolouration over the years. The walls and doors, for instance, were originally purple rather than blue. The apparently odd angle of the rear wall, meanwhile, is not a mistake on Van Gogh’s part – the corner really was skewed. The rules of perspective seem not to have been accurately applied throughout the painting, but this was a deliberate choice. Vincent told Theo in a letter that he had deliberately ‘flattened’ the interior and left out the shadows so that his picture would resemble a Japanese print. Van Gogh was very pleased with the painting: ‘When I saw my canvases again after my illness, what seemed to me the best was the bedroom.’

28/11/2022

𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Arles, January 1889

oil on canvas, 95 cm x 73 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh’s paintings of Sunflowers are among his most famous. He did them in Arles, in the south of France, in 1888 and 1889. Vincent painted a total of five large canvases with sunflowers in a vase, with three shades of yellow ‘and nothing else’. In this way, he demonstrated that it was possible to create an image with numerous variations of a single colour, without any loss of eloquence.

The sunflower paintings had a special significance for Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote. He hung the first two in the room of his friend, the painter Paul Gauguin, who came to live with him for a while in the Yellow House. Gauguin was impressed by the sunflowers, which he thought were ‘completely Vincent’. Van Gogh had already painted a new version during his friend’s stay and Gauguin later asked for one as a gift, which Vincent was reluctant to give him. He later produced two loose copies, however, one of which is now in the Van Gogh Museum.

27/11/2022

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, December 1887-February 1888

oil on canvas, 65.1 cm x 50 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

Van Gogh presented himself in this self-portrait as a painter, holding a palette and paintbrushes behind his easel. He showed that he was a modern artist by using a new painting style, with bright, almost unblended colours. The palette contains the complementary colour pairs red/green, yellow/purple and blue/orange – precisely the colours Van Gogh used for this painting. He laid these pairs down side by side to intensify one another: the blue of his smock, for instance, and the orange-red of his beard.

Self-Portrait as a Painter was the last work Van Gogh produced in Paris; the city had exhausted him both mentally and physically. He told his sister Wil how he had portrayed himself: ‘wrinkles in forehead and around the mouth, stiffly wooden, a very red beard, quite unkempt and sad’.

26/11/2022

𝐒𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭-𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐭

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Paris, May 1887

oil on canvas on cardboard, 33.0 cm x 42.0 cm

Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

It takes a while to figure out what makes this painting so unusual. Van Gogh made the sky largely yellow and the foreground blue. This was his way of suggesting the fall of night. The three figures between the trees are no more than silhouettes.

The painting clearly shows that Square Saint-Pierre in Paris was a fairly new park in Van Gogh's day. The trees are still young. Now called Square Louise-Michel, it leads up to the Sacré Coeur Basilica, one of the city's most famous churches. The basilica was then under construction.

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