Almond Blossom
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, February 1890
oil on canvas, 73.3 cm x 92.4 cm
Credits (obliged to state): Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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Vincent Van Gogh's lifework is a wonderful example of a genious painter,
who accomplished
thousands of artworks.
By now he became a
famous and extremely wellknown, influental painter, a historical figure whose paintings and drawings are wellknown and loved by western and eastern viewers and visitors of museums.
Van Gogh was tiredlessly working and achieving an extrordinary, unique post impressionist
non comercially successful painting career and painted his colorful and breathtakingly beautiful, vibrant, energetic masterpieces, inspiring the new generations of contemporary painters as myself.
His pure color usage and unique brushstrokes shaped his artworks to be as vibrant energy visions of the landscapes at his time.
His pencil drawings are true inspirations and even considered as true samples to follow/ copy for those who learn to study drawing with pencil, pen and ink.
His life shortly:
"Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
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About Almond Blossoms paintings:
His beautiful
"Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees.
Flowering trees were special to van Gogh.
They represented awakening and hope.
He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees. The works reflect the influence of Impressionism, Divisionism, and Japanese woodcuts.
Almond Blossom was made to celebrate the birth of his nephew and namesake, son of his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo.
Great news! Exhibiton " Chosing Vincent" , 2023
The "Almond Blossom" is on display at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) in the exhibiton " Chosing Vincent" in the Exhibition Wing from 10 February until 10 April 2023.
"For the painting, Van Gogh was inspired by Japanese prints
Vincent chose an unusual perspective for Almond Blossom.
He painted the branches from below and very close up.
It is as if you are lying on your back on the grass,
looking up at the branches above you,
so that you can no longer see the entire tree.
Vincent had seen this approach in Japanese printmaking
and was inspired by it. These prints often zoom in
on details from nature, and the image was sometimes cropped.
The subject itself also feels very Japanese,
as blossom played a significant role in Japanese printmaking."
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Source:
Japonaiserie Flowering Plum Tree (after Hiroshige)
by Vincent van Gogh, 1887
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
"When van Gogh arrived in Arles in March 1888 fruit trees in the orchards were about to bloom.
The blossoms of the apricot, peach and plum trees motivated him,
and within a month he had created fourteen paintings of blossoming fruit trees. Excited by the subject matter, van Gogh completed nearly one painting a day.
Around April 21 he wrote to Theo, that he "will have to seek something new, now the orchards have almost finished blossoming."
"Van Gogh's work reflected his interest in Japanese wood block prints.
Hiroshige's Plum Park in Kameido demonstrates portrayal of beautiful
subject matter with flat patterns of colors and no shadow.
Van Gogh used the term Japonaiserie to express this influence;
he collected hundreds of Japanese prints and likened the works
of the great Japanese artists, like Hiroshige, to those of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer.
Hiroshige was one of the last great masters of the Japanese genre called ukiyo-e.
Van Gogh integrated some of the technical aspects of ukiyo-e into his work as his two 1887 homages to Hiroshige demonstrates."
Source:Vincent van Gogh - Wikipedia
About Hiroshige
Utagawa Hiroshige
born Andō Tokutarō (安藤 徳太郎; 1797 – 12 October 1858),
was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist, considered the last great master of that tradition.
Hiroshige is best known for his horizontal-format landscape series
The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō
and for his vertical-format landscape series One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
The subjects of his work were atypical of the ukiyo-e genre,
whose typical focus was on beautiful women, popular actors,
and other scenes of the urban pleasure districts of Japan's Edo period (1603–1868).
In 1856, Hiroshige "retired from the world,"
becoming a Buddhist monk; this was the year he began his One Hundred Famous Views of Edo.
He died aged 62 during the great Edo cholera epidemic of 1858 (whether the epidemic killed him is unknown)
and was buried in a Zen Buddhist temple in Asakusa. Just before his death, he left a farewell poem:
東路に
筆を残して
旅の空
西のみくにの
名所を見む
I leave my brush in the East,
And set forth on my journey.
I shall see the famous places in the Western Land.
(The Western Land in this context refers to the strip of
land by the Tōkaidō between Kyoto and Edo,
but it does double duty as a reference to the paradise of the Amida Buddha).
Hiroshige - Wikipedia
Van Gogh copy of Hiroshige's prints
Bridge in the rain (after Hiroshige), Vincent van Gogh (from Japonaiserie), oil on canvas, 1887
Influence of Hiroshige
"Hiroshige’s The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō (1833–1834) and One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (1856–1858)
greatly influenced French Impressionists such as Monet.
Vincent van Gogh copied two of the One Hundred Famous Views of Edo which were among his collection of ukiyo-e prints.
Cézanne and Whistler were also amongst those under Hiroshige's influence.
Hiroshige was regarded by Louise Gonse, director of the influential
Gazette des Beaux-Arts and author of the two volume L'Art Japonais in 1883,
as the greatest painter of landscapes of the 19th century."
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