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    Art + Travel Europe Van Gogh and Arles
    Art + Travel Europe Van Gogh and Arles
    Art + Travel Europe Van Gogh and Arles
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    Art + Travel Europe Van Gogh and Arles

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    In a career that lasted only 10 years, Dutch-born Vincent Van Gogh created some of the best-loved paintings in modern art. Many of his most dazzling canvases were completed in the year he spent in Arles, a sunny village in the south of France. This book features detailed walking tours of Arles and Saint-Rémy where the artist lived, loved and labored. Readers will discover the sights and stories behind such an iconic work like "Starry Night.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMuseyon
    Release dateJan 1, 2013
    ISBN9781938450143
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      Book preview

      Art + Travel Europe Van Gogh and Arles - Museyon

      FRANCE

      VAN GOGH and Arles

      BY KRISTIN HOHENADEL

      The light changes palpably on a high-speed train heading south from Paris to Provence. The landscape brightens, fields of sunflowers rush by, and a sense of déjà vu sets in as a 3-D rendering of Vincent Van Gogh’s vision of southern France materializes in all its vivid poetry.

      In February of 1888, the Dutch artist boarded a train to make this same journey, fleeing gray Paris to seek out the shock of Provençal color and light. But before he painted the now-iconic images of sunflowers and wheat fields and nights lit with stars that flame like miniature suns, the 35-year-old Dutchman found himself snowed in for three weeks of uncharacteristically wintry Provençal weather. Legend has it that Arles was just a stop on a journey to Marseille to meet the painter Adolphe Monticelli, whose work he greatly admired. Van Gogh ended up staying for 15 months in Arles, a pretty, scrappy town in Camargue, with its Roman ruins and bullfighters, soldiers, and women in Arlesian costume.

      Marooned for those first few weeks in his room at the restaurant/hotel Carrel, he painted the view from its window and the woman at the front desk. The wintry landscapes reminded him of the Japanese prints he so admired. In the spring, the artist moved to a yellow house on the Place Lamartine; he dreamed of turning it into an artists’ compound and embarked on a period of frenzied productivity—he made some 300 paintings and drawings here—and unprecedented madness.

      At that point in his life, nobody could have predicted that the then-obscure Van Gogh was at work on the handful of paintings, now scattered around the world, that would earn him posthumous status as one of the world’s most celebrated, influential, and high-grossing artists. Especially not the people of Arles, who, when they noticed him at all, saw what looked like an unwashed, half-starved, perpetually drunk, redheaded, raving-mad foreigner. They never imagined they had a genius in their midst.

      The story of Van Gogh has always been irresistible from a human perspective, because the man died penniless (having sold exactly one painting), taking his own life in a fit

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