Kategorie: Post-Impressionism
Art of the late 19th century that moves beyond Impressionism: color, structure, and emotional intensity.
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Painter’s Anecdote: Van Gogh, the Bandaged Ear, and the Yellow Studio
How a December night in Arles, a quarrel with Gauguin, and a razor in a yellow house led to Van Gogh’s bandaged ear—and one of the most haunting self-portraits in art history.
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Painter’s Anecdote: Toulouse-Lautrec, the Broken Legs, and the Moulin Rouge
Paris, late 1880s. At the Moulin Rouge, where absinthe glows an unhealthy green and dancers whirl under electric lights, a small man with a magnificent beard sketches furiously at a table. This is Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, the aristocrat who preferred the company of cabaret singers, sex workers, and drunk poets to that of his own…
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Technique Tuesday: Van Gogh’s Impasto in Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889)
Van Gogh’s impasto turns light into choreography—ridges glitter, color stacks, and the sky curls like butter in Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889).