The Red Vineyard by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh painted The Red Vineyard in 1888, some time after Paul Gauguin arrived in Arles, France. As the weeks passed, Gauguin moved his easel out into the fields surrounding Arles, and van Gogh followed. The Red Vineyard combines Vincent's efforts to learn from Gauguin's example with his own enduring interest in color and motif. The bold diagonal axes that sweep across the foreground to meet the high horizon reflect Paul Gauguin's formal approach to composition, but the thickly worked surface illuminated by a yellow sun in a yellow sky mark Vincent van Gogh's own aesthetic concerns. Vincent van Gogh's The Red Vineyard (oil on canvas, 29-1/2x36-1/2 inches) hangs at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. |
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