Van Gogh Fritillaries
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Van Gogh Fritillaries
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Imperial Fritillaries in a Copper Vase, Vincent van Gogh, 1887.
Fritillaries are bulbs that flower in spring. The variety he represents is the imperial fritillary, which was grown in French and Dutch gardens at the end of the 19th century. It has an orange-red flower, with a long stem from which each bulb produces between three and ten flowers. So to compose this bouquet, Vincent used only one or two bulbs, placing the flowers in a copper vase.
Vincent was living in Paris and in close contact with Paul Signac when he painted the Fritillaries. Van Gogh applied some of the principles of Neo-Impressionist painting, of which Signac was one of the major figures: pointillist brushwork in the background and the contrast of complementary colors, blue and orange, dominates the painting.
The painter Emile Bernard would later recall that Vincent was courting the Italian owner of the Tambourin café on the boulevard de Clichy, and used to give her paintings of flowers, "which would last for ever". Thanks to painted bouquets like this one, the Tambourin would soon become a veritable artificial garden.
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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November 2nd, 2020
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