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"Portrait of Joseph Roulin," Vincent van Gogh, 1889.

Y'all know Van Gogh by now.

Joseph Roulin was a postal worker in the town of Arles, where Van Gogh had gone in hopes of forming an art colony. It never manifested, but he became close friends with his postman, Roulin, and the entire Roulin family became a huge source of emotional and moral support to the troubled artist.

Roulin was, by all accounts, one of those great people who was not only a devoted family man, but also a generally kind person who was always willing to lend a hand to those in need. Van Gogh was always struck by his features and overall air of kindliness, which comes across a little in this portrait; despite the large beard, he seems about to smile.

When Van Gogh was hospitalized (1888-90, on and off), Roulin looked after his studio and was a regular visitor. Some feel that Van Gogh's psychiatric troubles may have been far worse if not for the presence of his caring friend.

Here we have Roulin proud in his postal uniform, looking a bit amused, but also strong and solid. The background, of bright green and twisting vines and flowers, seems almost to embrace the subject.

Happy Portrait Monday!

From the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PortraitMonday #PostImpressionism

"Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase," Vincent van Gogh, 1890.

Thought I'd post some art early today; going off to a concert tonight!

Y'all know Van Gogh. This painting is a bit of a mystery to art historians. He never mentioned it in his letters, and he talked about nearly everything he did in those letters. The bouquet of summer flowers is similar to work he did in Paris, while the vase is the same used in a painting of irises during his time in Saint-Remy, in southern France. But the style and brushstrokes point to this being painted in the weeks leading up to his death in 1890.

Happy Flower Friday!

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #FlowerFriday #PostImpressionism

On Reflection: Cézanne

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/15/on-reflection-cezanne/

"The Sower," Vincent van Gogh, 1888.

Y'all know van Gogh.

In 1888 he was living in Arles and having his breakthrough success as an artist. This scene is a riff on an artist he admired, Jean-Francois Millet, who had done a similar painting of a sower.

Here, we have the man boldly striding across the plowed field, scattering seeds. But in the background, we see the sun rising over fully grown grain. This painting isn't supposed to be a realistic landscape, but a circle-of-life allegory, a religious scene of the sower of divine will planting the seeds of salvation.

Van Gogh's mental health would decline and in a few months he was hospitalized; I wonder if this painting was an expression of a troubled soul seeking some form of salvation or rescue.

From the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.

#Art #VincentVanGogh #PostImpressionism #Allegory

Wassily Kandinsky
Beach Baskets in Holland
1904
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Vincent Van Gogh
Zouave Half Figure
1888
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Vincent van Gogh
Zouave
1888
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Vincent Van Gogh
Zouave
1888
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Vincent van Gogh
Young Peasant Girl in a Straw Hat Sitting in Front of a Wheatfield
1890
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Vincent Van Gogh
Young Man With Cornflower
1890
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Vincent Van Gogh
Young Man with a Hat
1888
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Vincent Van Gogh
Women Working in Wheat Field
1890
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Vincent van Gogh
Woman with Striped Skirt
1890
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Vincent van Gogh
Woman with Hat (Half-Length)
1886
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Vincent Van Gogh
Woman Standing
1890
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Vincent van Gogh
Woman Sitting in the Grass
1887
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Vincent van Gogh
Woman Pianist and a Violinist
1887
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Vincent van Gogh
Woman Near a Window, Twice; Man with Winnow; Sower and Woman with Broom
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Vincent Van Gogh
Woman in the Cafe Tambourin
1887
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Vincent Van Gogh
Wheat Field With Sun And Cloud
1889
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Vincent Van Gogh
Wheat Field with Reaper and Sun
1889
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent's Bedroom in Arles
1889
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent's Bedroom
1888
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Vincent van Gogh
The Smoker Peasant
1888
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Vincent van Gogh
The Bridge
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Vincent van Gogh
Skeleton
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Vincent Van Gogh
Mountain Landscape Seen Across the Walls
1889
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Vincent Van Gogh
Man with Scythe in Wheat Field
1890
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Theo van Rysselberghe
Andre Gide at Jersey
1907
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Roger Fry
A Room in the Second Post-Impressionist
1912
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Paul Cezanne
Young Man and Skull
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Paul Cezanne
Woods with Millstone
1894
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Paul Cezanne
Woodland with Boulders
1893
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Paul Cezanne
View of L'Estaque and Chateaux d'If
1885
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Paul Cezanne
The Abandoned House
1879
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Paul Cezanne
Still Life with Fruit and a Ginger Pot
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Paul Cezanne
Self Portrait in a Felt Hat
1894
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Paul Cezanne
Portrait of Madame Cezanne
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Paul Cezanne
Flowers in an Olive Jar
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Paul Cezanne
Boy in a Red Vest
1888
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Paul Cezanne
Bather
1887
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Paul Cezanne
Bather
1887
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Paul Cezanne
Bather
1887
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Paul Cezanne
Bather
1887
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Paul Cezanne
Bather
1887
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Maurice Prendergast
Beach Promenade
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"The Bathers," Paul Cézanne, 1899-1904.

Cézanne (1839-1906) was an important painter in that he bridged the gap between Impressionism and modern art movements; in fact, some say that Cubism wouldn't have existed without him.

This is one of a series of similarly-themed paintings that he produced late in life (a larger and more famous version is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art), and a series where he abandoned the current ideas of what art should be, and flouted convention in creating a new style that he felt would stand the test of time. And obviously, it did.

While it seems idyllic, a closer look tells you that it's all done in quick, energetic strokes, with no real attention to detail, just enough to get the point across. By communicating his image with quick strokes and basic shapes, he helped inspire the Cubists and other modern artists who came later, and he's still revered by the avant-garde today.

Many of his "Bathers" paintings only went on exhibit posthumously; he died of pneumonia (after being caught in a bad storm and refusing to go in, resulting in hypothermia) at 67.

From the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Edouard Vuillard
In Front of a Tapestry
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Wassily Kandinsky
Beach Baskets in Holland
1904
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#WassilyKandinsky #Beachscene #PostImpressionism #art #painting

"Ray Embarkment in Basel in the Rain" by Alexandre Benois
Style: Post-Impressionism
Accompanied by "Jardins sous la pluie - Estampes" by Claude Debussy [http://youtu.be/w-1ERRRUM-c]

[“The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.” - Robert Frost]

#AlexandreBenois #Painting #Art #PostImpressionism #Rain #Wind #RainyDay #Pluie #Jardins #Estampes #ClaudeDebussy #Debussy #RobertFrost