Vincent van Gogh
Time for another moon painting this week! This time the one created by the amazing Vincent van Gogh.
A Walk at Twilight was painted in the last year of artist's life. We see a romantic stroll in the tranquil sunset; feverish excitement is rendered by brushwork in pure colors that seem to set fire to the canvas surface. The brushstrokes of the work suggest agitation and excitation, a strange atmosphere in which sky, plants, and characters seem to move. The rhythm of the brushstrokes gains power from the strong and saturated colors, which vibrate and grow in luminosity. The sky, which Van Gogh saw from the window of the asylum in Saint-Remy, was described by him in a letter to his brother Theo as “a nocturnal sky with a stupefying moon.” For some interpreters of the work, the red-haired man in this romantic walk is the artist himself—but who could be the woman next to him?
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P.S. Learn more about Vincent van Gogh's love life. Spoiler alert: there is no happy ending...