Vincent van Gogh. Image source · CC BY-SA 4.0
The people behind the art
1853 to 1890
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter (1853–1890). Their work is associated with Post-impressionism; Expressionism. Their recorded places of work include Tilburg; The Hague; London; Paris; Ramsgate; Etten-Leur; Dordrecht; Amsterdam; Borinage; Brussels; Hoogeveen; Nuenen; Antwerp; Arles; Saint-Rémy-de-Provence; Auvers-sur-Oise; Van Gogh House; Emmen; Maison Van Gogh.
6 artworks in the archive
In the archive
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A docent-led reading of Van Gogh's Almond Blossom, painted in February 1890 as a gift for his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo after the birth of their son Vincent Willem. The tour connects the painting's blue sky, white blossom and Japanese-inspired design to its occasion, and separates what we can see from what the museum and letters establish.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery walk through Van Gogh's Arles sunflowers: fifteen blooms at every stage of life, painted in August 1888 to welcome Paul Gauguin, and read here through the National Gallery's own account of the picture.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
In January 1889, a week after leaving hospital, Vincent van Gogh painted himself with his ear bandaged, a fur cap on his head, standing before a canvas on an easel and a Japanese print. It is a self-portrait about both a recent crisis and a determination to keep painting.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A gallery reading of Vincent van Gogh's September 1888 painting of the Rhône at Arles, focusing on the one subject the supplied record documents, the river at night, and keeping everything else at the strength the evidence allows.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A docent-led reading of Vincent van Gogh's Irises, painted in May 1890 at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy. The article follows the bouquet from what is visible on the canvas, through the colour contrast the museum identifies as the painting's purpose, to the pigment change that altered how its flowers now appear.
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
A docent's reading of Vincent van Gogh's 1888 night scene at the Place du Forum in Arles. The supplied record identifies the artist, title, date and setting, and credits the painting to the Kröller-Müller Museum; the account below keeps that modest evidence base visible and treats the imagery in the picture as the main subject for interpretation.
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