FINAL EXAM Flashcards
Van Gogh, Sorrow, 1880
- lithograph
- Former prostitute and lover. A tragic figure has 5 yr old & pregnant
- Desolation and sorrow. trying to save her but can’t.
Van Gogh, The Weavers, 1884
- Series, oil, pencil & water color
- Based on parents hometown
- Weaving associated with women but men depicted
- Sorrow felt and analogy of crafts - deep connection to rural laborers
- Sense of connection but dont pose a threat to him
- observed them daily, had to get full space so some are manipulated
- Human figures pushed behind machine, no individualized and is taken over by the loom
- as cities evolved lives of artisans becames harder
- complexities of paintings with pollock
- tend to look for effects of modernity in cities but felt in less urban settings
- ruralism is constructed in opposition to the city which creates a binary or backwardness - his approach is one of nostalgia
- class & gender
Van Gogh, Open Bible 1885
Van Gogh, Piles of French Novels, 1887
Van Gogh, Still Life with Plastic Statue, 1888
Van Gogh, Shoes, 1886
Van Gogh, Three Pairs of Shoes, 1886
Van Gogh, Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), 1887
Van Gogh Self Portrait 1887
Van Gogh, The Sower, 1888
Van Gogh, Night Cafe, 1888
Van Gogh, Portrait of the Postman Roulin 1888
Van Gogh, La Berceuse Madam Roulin, 1889
Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888
Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888
Van Gogh, Bedroom at Arles, 1888
L: Van Gogh, Chair with Pipe, 1888
R: Van Gogh, Gauguin’s Chair 1888
L: Van Gogh, Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889
R: Van Gogh, Self Portrait with Pipe, 1889
Van Gogh Starry Night 1889
L: Van Gogh, The Corridor of the Asylum, 1889
R: The Vestibule of the ASylum 1889
Van Gogh, Portrait of Dr. Gachet 1890
Van Gogh, Church at Auvers 1890
Van Gogh, Wheatfield with Crows, 1890
Van Gogh, Tree Roots, 1890
Gauguin, Martinique Landscape, 1887
Gauguin, The Mango Trees, Martinique, 1887
Reading - Garb