Vincent van Gogh
This small, lesser-known painting is a key touchstone in Van Gogh’s collective works up until 1888, when it was painted. It’s the first painting where the artist uses his famous extreme contrasts and bold colors that would soon become hallmarks of his work. This artwork shows him moving away from dark-toned realistic Realism and Impressionism he knew from Paris toward Expressionism, a movement to which he would contribute greatly in establishing. In the painting we present today, van Gogh for the first time emphasizes and exploits to the full the extreme contrasts of blue and orange, red and green, and white and black.
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