Pieta (After Delacroix) by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's Pietą (After Delacroix) was painted in 1889,
shortly after his return to work, when Vincent resumed his old habit of
making oil copies of black and white reproductions of the works of art
he admired. Eugčne Delacroix's color theory had shaped Vincent van
Gogh's ideas about color from his earliest reflections on painting. The
resonant contrast of blue and yellow in Pietą -- broken only by
Christ's red hair and beard -- heightens the emotional power as well as
his personal connection to the art of Delacroix.
 Pietą (After Delacroix) (oil on canvas, 16-1/2x13-1/2 inches), by Vincent van Gogh, can be found at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. |
Van Gogh was known for his many self-portraits. Next, we'll look more closely at one of the last of such works.
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