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We’re looking at a study here, at least, according to Van Gogh. When Vincent arrived in Auvers in late May 1890, the landscape was bursting with flowers. Inspired by the season, he painted nine floral still lifes in just a few weeks. That is more than he had made in the entire year before.This painting is the final bouquet from that series. In a letter to his brother Theo on 17 June, Vincent described it as ‘wild plants, thistles, ears of wheat, leaves of different types of greenery.’To him it was simply a study.To us
 maybe a little more than that
  ‘Vase with Wild Flowers’, 1890 © Private collection
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We’re looking at a study here, at least, according to Van Gogh. 🌿 When Vincent arrived in Auvers in late May 1890, the landscape was bursting with flowers. Inspired by the season, he painted nine floral still lifes in just a few weeks. That is more than he had made in the entire year before. This painting is the final bouquet from that series. In a letter to his brother Theo on 17 June, Vincent described it as ‘wild plants, thistles, ears of wheat, leaves of different types of greenery.’ To him it was simply a study. To us
 maybe a little more than that
 đŸ–Œïž ‘Vase with Wild Flowers’, 1890 © Private collection
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Small face. Bull neck. Tiger eyes. Sounds less like a soldier and more like a zoo. But that’s exactly how Vincent described his model in a letter to his brother Theo in 1888:‘I have a model at last – a Zouave – he’s a lad with a small face, the neck of a bull, the eye of a tiger.’ During a rainy break from his harvest paintings in Arles, Vincent returned to this striking soldier again and again, capturing him in pencil, watercolour and oil paint.Turns out the tiger eyes worked in every medium, don’t you think?1 ‘The Zouave’, 1888 © The MET2 ‘The Zouave’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum3 ‘Seated Zouave’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum
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Small face. Bull neck. Tiger eyes. Sounds less like a soldier and more like a zoo. But that’s exactly how Vincent described his model in a letter to his brother Theo in 1888: ‘I have a model at last – a Zouave – he’s a lad with a small face, the neck of a bull, the eye of a tiger.’ 🐅 During a rainy break from his harvest paintings in Arles, Vincent returned to this striking soldier again and again, capturing him in pencil, watercolour and oil paint. Turns out the tiger eyes worked in every medium, don’t you think? 1 ‘The Zouave’, 1888 © The MET 2 ‘The Zouave’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum 3 ‘Seated Zouave’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum
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Would you make the same choice?
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‘I’ve also just finished a canvas of pink roses against a yellow-green background in a green vase’, Vincent wrote to his brother Theo.Yes, you read that correctly: pink roses. The red pigment he used here has faded over time, and the blooms look much paler today than when Vincent painted them.Fun fact: He painted this painting on this day, 136 years ago. (5)  ‘Roses’, 1890 © The MET
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‘I’ve also just finished a canvas of pink roses against a yellow-green background in a green vase’, Vincent wrote to his brother Theo. Yes, you read that correctly: pink roses. đŸŒč The red pigment he used here has faded over time, and the blooms look much paler today than when Vincent painted them. Fun fact: He painted this painting on this day, 136 years ago. (5) đŸ–Œïž ‘Roses’, 1890 © The MET
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Van Gogh once dreamed of creating a ‘symphony in yellow’ – a painting built from many shades of that colour. It was a risky idea: too much yellow could easily blur the image into a single mass.In this still life, he carefully balances the yellows of the lemons, basket and table with touches of green, orange and cool blue shadows to keep the composition alive.Collector Helene Kröller-MĂŒller later wrote:‘If you can place yourself in the mind of someone who was able to see lemons and interpret them for us in such a way, then you will enjoy art because from it you feel that, despite everything, there is something in the world that we are always seeking and for which we should always have respect.’‘Basket of Lemons and Bottle’, 1888 © Kröller-MĂŒller Museum
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Van Gogh once dreamed of creating a ‘symphony in yellow’ – a painting built from many shades of that colour. It was a risky idea: too much yellow could easily blur the image into a single mass. In this still life, he carefully balances the yellows of the lemons, basket and table with touches of green, orange and cool blue shadows to keep the composition alive. Collector Helene Kröller-MĂŒller later wrote: ‘If you can place yourself in the mind of someone who was able to see lemons and interpret them for us in such a way, then you will enjoy art because from it you feel that, despite everything, there is something in the world that we are always seeking and for which we should always have respect.’ ‘Basket of Lemons and Bottle’, 1888 © Kröller-MĂŒller Museum
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At first glance, you ‘simply’ see a woman in a yellow dress.But the colour tells a more complex story
Our educator Thijs Gerbrandy shares his favourite work from the exhibition ‘Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’: ‘Evening (The Ball)’ by James Tissot.Yellow can be bold and attention-grabbing, but also warm and radiant.Which side are you on?  On view until 17 May.
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At first glance, you ‘simply’ see a woman in a yellow dress. But the colour tells a more complex story
 Our educator Thijs Gerbrandy shares his favourite work from the exhibition ‘Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’: ‘Evening (The Ball)’ by James Tissot. Yellow can be bold and attention-grabbing, but also warm and radiant. Which side are you on? 💛 đŸ–Œïž On view until 17 May.
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Can you recognise who’s staring back at you? Eyes are often called the ‘windows to the soul’, revealing emotions and personality in ways words cannot. From joy to sadness, curiosity to determination, their depth has the power to captivate us.What emotions do you see in the eyes Van Gogh painted?
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Can you recognise who’s staring back at you? 👀 Eyes are often called the ‘windows to the soul’, revealing emotions and personality in ways words cannot. From joy to sadness, curiosity to determination, their depth has the power to captivate us. What emotions do you see in the eyes Van Gogh painted?
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Can you spot the differences? This painting shows the view from Van Gogh’s window at the psychiatric institution in Saint-RĂ©my.Vincent described this very scene in a letter to his brother Theo: yellow stubble fields being ploughed, purplish earth turned over, with hills rising in the distance. Painting helped him focus. As he wrote: ‘Work distracts me infinitely better than anything else.’ Vincent later included a sketch of the scene in a letter to Theo (2). Did you notice Vincent added windmills to the painting? They were imagined.  ‘Enclosed Field with Ploughman’, 1889 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  Sheet 1 of a letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh with sketch of ‘Field with a Ploughman’ (recto), 2 September 1889.
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Can you spot the differences? đŸŒŸ This painting shows the view from Van Gogh’s window at the psychiatric institution in Saint-RĂ©my. Vincent described this very scene in a letter to his brother Theo: yellow stubble fields being ploughed, purplish earth turned over, with hills rising in the distance. Painting helped him focus. As he wrote: ‘Work distracts me infinitely better than anything else.’ Vincent later included a sketch of the scene in a letter to Theo (2). Did you notice Vincent added windmills to the painting? They were imagined. đŸ–Œïž ‘Enclosed Field with Ploughman’, 1889 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ✏ Sheet 1 of a letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh with sketch of ‘Field with a Ploughman’ (recto), 2 September 1889.
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Van Gogh was out painting plum trees in bloom, caught between gusts of wind and bursts of sunlight.He described it to his brother Theo: ‘This morning I worked on an orchard of plum trees in blossom – suddenly a tremendous wind began to blow, an effect I’d only ever seen here – and came back again at intervals. In the intervals, sunshine that made all the little white flowers sparkle. It was so beautiful!’Does this scene feel calm to you, or full of energy?
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🌾 Van Gogh was out painting plum trees in bloom, caught between gusts of wind and bursts of sunlight. He described it to his brother Theo: ‘This morning I worked on an orchard of plum trees in blossom – suddenly a tremendous wind began to blow, an effect I’d only ever seen here – and came back again at intervals. In the intervals, sunshine that made all the little white flowers sparkle. It was so beautiful!’ Does this scene feel calm to you, or full of energy?
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Did you know this little frog (1) and the crane (2) might be in on a secret?Look closely at the details around the elegant woman: water lilies, bamboo, cranes, frogs
 nothing here is random. Van Gogh borrowed the figure from a Japanese woodcut by Keisai Eisen and surrounded her with carefully chosen elements.But these animals carry a rather cheeky double meaning. In 19th-century French slang, grue (crane) and grenouille (frog) referred to prostitutes.  ‘Courtesan (after Eisen)’, 1887 © Van Gogh Museum
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Did you know this little frog 🐾 (1) and the crane 🐩 (2) might be in on a secret? Look closely at the details around the elegant woman: water lilies, bamboo, cranes, frogs
 nothing here is random. Van Gogh borrowed the figure from a Japanese woodcut by Keisai Eisen and surrounded her with carefully chosen elements. But these animals carry a rather cheeky double meaning. In 19th-century French slang, grue (crane) and grenouille (frog) referred to prostitutes. đŸ–Œïž ‘Courtesan (after Eisen)’, 1887 © Van Gogh Museum
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Can colour speak to your soul? Wassily Kandinsky believed it could. In his book ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’ (1912), he wrote that colour could make the viewer’s inner world ‘vibrate.’For him, yellow and blue were powerful opposites:yellow – earthy and energeticblue – spiritual and profound.By placing such colours together, Kandinsky challenged viewers to sense deeper, hidden meanings.What do these colours make you feel?  Now on view as part of the exhibition ‘Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ until 17 May.
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Can colour speak to your soul? 🎹 Wassily Kandinsky believed it could. In his book ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art’ (1912), he wrote that colour could make the viewer’s inner world ‘vibrate.’ For him, yellow and blue were powerful opposites: yellow – earthy and energetic blue – spiritual and profound. By placing such colours together, Kandinsky challenged viewers to sense deeper, hidden meanings. What do these colours make you feel? đŸ–Œïž Now on view as part of the exhibition ‘Yellow. Beyond Van Gogh’s Colour’ until 17 May.
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Van Gogh wrote to his brother that he saw ‘with a Japanese eye’. He was living in the South of France at the time. In this seascape, he used bold colours, strong contours, and a diagonal coastline – all compositional elements he took from Japanese prints. Japanese art helped him simplify and intensify his style.  ‘Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum
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Van Gogh wrote to his brother that he saw ‘with a Japanese eye’. He was living in the South of France at the time. In this seascape, he used bold colours, strong contours, and a diagonal coastline – all compositional elements he took from Japanese prints. Japanese art helped him simplify and intensify his style. đŸ–Œïž ‘Fishing Boats on the Beach at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum
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