Van Gogh Art – Van Gogh’s Most Famous Paintings In His Dutch Impressionist Art Career
This article brings Vincent Van Gogh’s best paintings from an art career which whilst short, delivered an abundance of high quality paintings. Night Cafe is a great place to start, being one of Van Gogh’s paintings, and with the cafe bar itself still in existence and serving as a homage to the great artist himself.
Sunflowers is best known for Van Gogh’s love of detail and colour, and is produced in two series of paintings, in Paris in 1887 and later in Arles. His close friend, a fellow benchmark artist, Paul Gauguin, went onto purchase two of Van Gogh’s SUnflowers paintings and they became some of his favourite works by his friend Vincent.
Cafe Terrace At Night by Van Gogh is described in many of Van Gogh’s letters to his brother, which have become very respected sources of material for those wishing to study this great artist. The cafe remains open to Van Gogh fans who often visit from around the world to feel a connection to the artist of some 120 years ago, who still drums up an incredible fan base even today.
The Starry Night features Van Gogh’s best known style of movements of imagination in motion with his paintbrush, creating mood paintings, with great feelings broadcast by the genius Dutch artist. Religion is believed to be in Vincent Van Gogh’s mind after The Starry Night was created, as he sought a way to control his own mental instability, which sadly he failed ultimately to do, leading to his untimely death.
Van Gogh’s flower paintings were brilliant at disguising his own confusion and instability with charming, sweet collections attractive sunflowers, irises or roses. In Irises, he portrayed a more positive outlook than his time in Saint Paul-de-Mausole asylum would have given him, and sadly his time there was not enough to sway him from his eventual death soon after Irises was created.
Wheatfield with Crows shows Van Gogh at his moody, depressive self with dark skies and aggressive wind-torn fields. It remains one of his best and last paintings, painted in 1890, towards his sad demise which followed soon after Wheatfield with Crows was created. It is also one of the most expensive impressionist paintings ever sold.