• [[...one final portrait and now we leave Vincent behind us for a few weeks. I hope you’ve liked these frames and walls!...]]
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    [[...one final portrait and now we leave Vincent behind us for a few weeks. I hope you’ve liked these frames and walls!...]]
  • [[...another from Vincent’s time in the asylum. He’d just received an image from his artist friend Bernard depicting the Agony of Christ under an olive tree. Vincent was critical of it, emphasising that he’d sooner paint the olive trees without Christ entirely. Luckily for him there was a grove close to the Asylum, and when he was healthy enough to leave the hospital he painted a whole series of depictions of these olive trees, in vivid varied colours. Here we see the scene close to sunset...]]
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    [[...another from Vincent’s time in the asylum. He’d just received an image from his artist friend Bernard depicting the Agony of Christ under an olive tree. Vincent was critical of it, emphasising that he’d sooner paint the olive trees without Christ entirely. Luckily for him there was a grove close to the Asylum, and when he was healthy enough to leave the hospital he painted a whole series of depictions of these olive trees, in vivid varied colours. Here we see the scene close to sunset...]]
  • [[...thanks for the love yesterday guys! No joke, that was super fun, I’m happy so many of you were keen to enter. I’ll contact winners in a couple of days. For now, a few more Van Gogh’s and then we’ll move on to explore other artists for a while. I’ve gotten tired of the Versailles Palace edits...]]
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    [[...thanks for the love yesterday guys! No joke, that was super fun, I’m happy so many of you were keen to enter. I’ll contact winners in a couple of days. For now, a few more Van Gogh’s and then we’ll move on to explore other artists for a while. I’ve gotten tired of the Versailles Palace edits...]]
  • [[…hello! I’m giving away two high-quality large posters of Van Gogh’s work, one Starry Night Over the Rhône, and the other The Church at Auvers. If you keep sliding past the sunflowers you’ll be able to see them for yourself. Each is 24’’x36’’ in size, and usually costs £35. As with almost all of the other Van Gogh paintings I’ve posted in the last few weeks, these are currently NOT available in the Print Room, and not featured in the main museum website either, so this is your only chance to obtain either prints for the moment. • SO, to anyone who fancies a nice big picture of a painting on your wall at home, here are the rules! There are two ways to enter: 1) Like the post, and tag a friend in the comments; 2) Like the post, share it onto your story, and remember to tag me otherwise I won’t be notified! • If you want your submission to be included twice in the draw, that’s fine, you can do both of these things and I’ll enter you twice in the random generator. I’ll ask the first winner it generates which poster they’d prefer and the second winner will get the other one. After reaching out to you on instagram direct message, i’ll ask for your addresses and send them out to you. • To those that are surprised that I’m making this kind of post, I’m only doing this promotion because I’m thinking of switching up the quality of prints on the Print Room and needed to order some stock to compare the quality. One of the posters is a matt print, the other is a luster photo print, but they both look really lovely, and now I’ve seen them they need a nice home!…]]
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    [[…hello! I’m giving away two high-quality large posters of Van Gogh’s work, one Starry Night Over the Rhône, and the other The Church at Auvers. If you keep sliding past the sunflowers you’ll be able to see them for yourself. Each is 24’’x36’’ in size, and usually costs £35. As with almost all of the other Van Gogh paintings I’ve posted in the last few weeks, these are currently NOT available in the Print Room, and not featured in the main museum website either, so this is your only chance to obtain either prints for the moment. • SO, to anyone who fancies a nice big picture of a painting on your wall at home, here are the rules! There are two ways to enter: 1) Like the post, and tag a friend in the comments; 2) Like the post, share it onto your story, and remember to tag me otherwise I won’t be notified! • If you want your submission to be included twice in the draw, that’s fine, you can do both of these things and I’ll enter you twice in the random generator. I’ll ask the first winner it generates which poster they’d prefer and the second winner will get the other one. After reaching out to you on instagram direct message, i’ll ask for your addresses and send them out to you. • To those that are surprised that I’m making this kind of post, I’m only doing this promotion because I’m thinking of switching up the quality of prints on the Print Room and needed to order some stock to compare the quality. One of the posters is a matt print, the other is a luster photo print, but they both look really lovely, and now I’ve seen them they need a nice home!…]]
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  • . . . [[...i’m thinking of taking the info aspect of this project away to help encourage you to take a good look and drink it in, instead of searching for information about it... to make this more of a visual thing... you can find plenty of great places on instagram to learn about the stories behind paintings and artists but maybe here will just be more of a place to look...]]
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    . . . [[...i’m thinking of taking the info aspect of this project away to help encourage you to take a good look and drink it in, instead of searching for information about it... to make this more of a visual thing... you can find plenty of great places on instagram to learn about the stories behind paintings and artists but maybe here will just be more of a place to look...]]
  • • • • [[...The Birth of Venus. Created in the late 15th Century by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli. One of the most famous paintings in the world. An icon of Renaissance art. • On the left flies the male god of wind: Zephyrus, alongside his nymph companion Aura: the personification of a breeze. They’re embracing, which symbolises the act of love — in Greek Mythology Zephyr had the power to create new life — and the two blow winds to carry the newborn Venus onto land, heralding the arrival of this dazzling goddess of beauty as she stands, arising out of the foam upon a seashell. • On the right lightly floats a waiting Hora of Spring — a minor goddess of the seasons — ready to dress Venus in her rich drapery covered in flowers. • The painting was originally intended as an intimate bedroom piece, and the nudity depicted by Botticelli was fairly scandalous for the time. And thus the work remained largely invisible for a decades, hidden in the halls of a member of the Medici family in Florence. It took centuries before it was really rediscovered in the 19th century and took international acclaim as a golden relic of Renaissance...]]
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    • • • [[...The Birth of Venus. Created in the late 15th Century by the Italian master Sandro Botticelli. One of the most famous paintings in the world. An icon of Renaissance art. • On the left flies the male god of wind: Zephyrus, alongside his nymph companion Aura: the personification of a breeze. They’re embracing, which symbolises the act of love — in Greek Mythology Zephyr had the power to create new life — and the two blow winds to carry the newborn Venus onto land, heralding the arrival of this dazzling goddess of beauty as she stands, arising out of the foam upon a seashell. • On the right lightly floats a waiting Hora of Spring — a minor goddess of the seasons — ready to dress Venus in her rich drapery covered in flowers. • The painting was originally intended as an intimate bedroom piece, and the nudity depicted by Botticelli was fairly scandalous for the time. And thus the work remained largely invisible for a decades, hidden in the halls of a member of the Medici family in Florence. It took centuries before it was really rediscovered in the 19th century and took international acclaim as a golden relic of Renaissance...]]
  • [[...another from Vincent’s time in the asylum that I mentioned a few days ago. This one he called “Leaf-Fall” and if you look closely you’ll see the lovely way he’s depicted falling leaves and blistering winds...]]
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    [[...another from Vincent’s time in the asylum that I mentioned a few days ago. This one he called “Leaf-Fall” and if you look closely you’ll see the lovely way he’s depicted falling leaves and blistering winds...]]
  • [[...Van Gogh planned to decorate his studio in nothing but sunflowers for his artist retreat in Arles, and he may even have painted as many as 20 studies of the flowers in total. Unfortunately only 10 survive today. His dear friend Gauguin fell in love with the depictions at first glance, and begged for one as a gift. But Vincent was initially reluctant — by all accounts he was very fond of his sunflower paintings — but did eventually produce a copy for him. The version here hangs currently in Munich...]]
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    [[...Van Gogh planned to decorate his studio in nothing but sunflowers for his artist retreat in Arles, and he may even have painted as many as 20 studies of the flowers in total. Unfortunately only 10 survive today. His dear friend Gauguin fell in love with the depictions at first glance, and begged for one as a gift. But Vincent was initially reluctant — by all accounts he was very fond of his sunflower paintings — but did eventually produce a copy for him. The version here hangs currently in Munich...]]
  • [[...Vincent was a deep admirer of Japanese art. He owned over 500 prints which were a source of great inspiration and excitement, pinned all around his studio: “I envy the Japanese for that great clarity that all things have for them. Their work is as simple as breathing.” • This piece is called “The Courtesan” and Van Gogh based it on an image by the artist Kesai Eisen which he had spotted on the cover of a magazine in 1886. Surrounding her he included a pond fill of lilies, bamboo, cranes and frogs. This is personally one of my favourites of his works, framed here in the Palace of Versailles...]]
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    [[...Vincent was a deep admirer of Japanese art. He owned over 500 prints which were a source of great inspiration and excitement, pinned all around his studio: “I envy the Japanese for that great clarity that all things have for them. Their work is as simple as breathing.” • This piece is called “The Courtesan” and Van Gogh based it on an image by the artist Kesai Eisen which he had spotted on the cover of a magazine in 1886. Surrounding her he included a pond fill of lilies, bamboo, cranes and frogs. This is personally one of my favourites of his works, framed here in the Palace of Versailles...]]
  • [[...i’m finally happy with the upcoming feed so expect regular posts now! This here is the Garden of the Hospital at Saint-Rémy, painted in 1889 by Vincent during the most difficult period of his life. He’d just cut off his ear and was sent to the Asylum in Arles. By all accounts, he was extremely unhappy and misunderstood. And yet... somehow, he was prolific at this time, painting almost 150 works, some of them his most beautiful. • His doctor couldn’t really tell what was wrong with him: “when I tried to get him to talk about the motive that drove him to cut off his ear, he replied that it was purely a personal matter.” • After a couple of weeks he was discharged and could return home. But new breakdowns occurred soon after and he was readmitted back into the asylum before long...]]
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    [[...i’m finally happy with the upcoming feed so expect regular posts now! This here is the Garden of the Hospital at Saint-Rémy, painted in 1889 by Vincent during the most difficult period of his life. He’d just cut off his ear and was sent to the Asylum in Arles. By all accounts, he was extremely unhappy and misunderstood. And yet... somehow, he was prolific at this time, painting almost 150 works, some of them his most beautiful. • His doctor couldn’t really tell what was wrong with him: “when I tried to get him to talk about the motive that drove him to cut off his ear, he replied that it was purely a personal matter.” • After a couple of weeks he was discharged and could return home. But new breakdowns occurred soon after and he was readmitted back into the asylum before long...]]
  • [[...direct and plainly spoken, just like the man himself. Vincent prepared this piece alongside one other, dedicated to his dear friend Paul Gauguin, to adorn the home of the idyllic artistic community that the pair aspired to create in the countryside of France. They set off to invent and develop a style of painting the likes of which the world had never known before. • But alas, the companionship between the two lasted merely a handful of months, ending climatically when a crazed Vincent threatened Gauguin with a knife. His shaken friend subsequently abandoned the retreat. • A lone artist at a failed creative refuge, the poor man broke down and, in a fit of delirium, sliced off the entirety of his left ear...]]
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    [[...direct and plainly spoken, just like the man himself. Vincent prepared this piece alongside one other, dedicated to his dear friend Paul Gauguin, to adorn the home of the idyllic artistic community that the pair aspired to create in the countryside of France. They set off to invent and develop a style of painting the likes of which the world had never known before. • But alas, the companionship between the two lasted merely a handful of months, ending climatically when a crazed Vincent threatened Gauguin with a knife. His shaken friend subsequently abandoned the retreat. • A lone artist at a failed creative refuge, the poor man broke down and, in a fit of delirium, sliced off the entirety of his left ear...]]
  • [[...Painted in the last month of his life, Vincent wrote about this piece to his brother, describing “two completely dark pear trees against a yellowing sky with wheat-fields, and in the violet background the castle encased in dark greenery”. Little did he know that only a hundred years later people would flock from around the world to that very same castle — the Chateau of Auvers — just to see in person some of his very last paintings, hanging in the grand hallways within...]]
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    [[...Painted in the last month of his life, Vincent wrote about this piece to his brother, describing “two completely dark pear trees against a yellowing sky with wheat-fields, and in the violet background the castle encased in dark greenery”. Little did he know that only a hundred years later people would flock from around the world to that very same castle — the Chateau of Auvers — just to see in person some of his very last paintings, hanging in the grand hallways within...]]
  • [[...”If one loves nature, one finds beauty everywhere” — Vincent. Here’s to hoping you all can find some golden sunlight today somewhere in your life...]]
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    [[...”If one loves nature, one finds beauty everywhere” — Vincent. Here’s to hoping you all can find some golden sunlight today somewhere in your life...]]