Almond Blossoms. 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. Set against the most beautiful background of blue are blossoming almond flowers. This is an image brought to life in just one of the many Vincent van Gogh flower paintings, specifically his blossom tree painting Almond Blossom from 1890. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist artist whose paintings are amongst the most popular and recognizable in history. His dramatic brushwork, exuberant palette, and mastery at capturing moments in time and light revolutionised art. Only recognised at the end of his life, his struggles and triumphs have coloured exactly In fact, van Gogh is only thought to have sold one painting during his lifetime, being the Red Vineyards Near Arles. Had he lived a bit longer, he may have had the chance to experience some of the fruits of his later fame. Vincent van Gogh, Red Vineyard, 1888. 9. He Was Troubled by Illness. 2. Vincent only turned to Sunflower still-lifes because of the wind and the rain—he needed to work in the cosy Yellow House. On 18 August 1888, two days before beginning the Sunflowers, Van Gogh The Van Gogh Museum shared this information in an interview with The New York Times before the opening of the museum’s summer exhibition, “Van Gogh and the Sunflowers,” which runs from The Starry Night ( Dutch: De sterrennacht) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village. Van Gogh combined the azure blue of the sky with yellow and green tones for the land to capture the atmosphere of a summer’s day. He worked in the wheatfields for days at a time under the burning sun. This was an immensely productive period, in which he completed ten paintings and five drawings in just over a week, until a heavy storm brought Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 82 cm × 114 cm (32.3 in × 44.9 in) Location. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The Potato Eaters ( Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. [1] It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The original oil sketch is at the Kröller-Müller tCwF.

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