Van Gogh Cafe Montmartre
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Van Gogh Cafe Montmartre
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Terrace of a Cafe on Montmartre "La Guinguette", Vincent van Gogh, 1886.
La Guinguette was a meeting point in Montmartre, an area that was at the outskirts of Paris at the time Van Gogh lived there. Van Gogh preferred Montmartre to downtown Paris because he considered it too noisy. This picture shows us a calm scene of Paris.
The Montmartre paintings are a group of works Vincent van Gogh painted between 1886 and 1887 of the Paris district of Montmartre while living there. Rather than capture urban settings in Paris, van Gogh preferred pastoral scenes, such as Montmartre and Asnières in the northwest suburbs. Of the two years in Paris, the work from 1886 often has the dark, somber tones of his early works. By the spring of 1887, van Gogh embraced use of color and light and created his own brushstroke techniques based upon Impressionism and Pointillism. The works in the series provide examples of his work during that period of time and the progression he made as an artist.
This painting can be admired at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, France.
As for Paris... what can one say about the City of Light that has not already been said...?
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Weston Westmoreland.
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November 2nd, 2020
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