Bear in mind he's an inpatient at the hospital at the time!
Fountain in the Garden of Saint-Paul HospitalVincent van Gogh - 1889
Van Gogh Museum (Netherlands)
Drawing in Black chalk, pen and ink
Height: 49.5 cm (19.49 in.), Width: 46 cm (18.11 in.)
Van Gogh Museum (Netherlands)
Drawing in Black chalk, pen and ink
Height: 49.5 cm (19.49 in.), Width: 46 cm (18.11 in.)
5 comments:
Ha ha, I just looked at this post, picture first of course and thought, bloody hell thats good, wonder whos posted that up, then realised that it was ole Vince, not one of us!! Silly me!
Interesting how he crosses into both worlds of reality and abstract in this drawing. The fountain is clear and accurately reads as water, brick, solid as does the tree. Then it meanders off into stylized sky.
It works well.
It does seem astonishing that poor Vincent was so un appreicated in his own time. What a genius.
I love his drawings. He uses such an inventive and intuitive range of marks and pressure
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