Certified graphic print, 50x70 cm. Numbered 50/250. Certificate, Fabriano Cotton Privilege handmade paper. Signed Vincent van Gogh in the lower right. Embossment S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris. Numbered in pencil
About the author:
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman. He is one of the greatest figures in world fine art. Van Gogh created approximately 900 paintings and 1100 drawings in a relatively short period of ten years. Van Gogh's work was almost unknown during his lifetime (only one painting was sold less than a year before his death). Van Gogh did not receive significant recognition during his lifetime. However, posthumously his fame rose at a dizzying pace, especially after an exhibition in Paris in 1901, 11 years after his death.
With his style, van Gogh fits most prominently among the Fauvists, Expressionists, and partly also early abstraction. His innovative approach to reality changed the perception of traditional Impressionist painting and significantly influenced the first half of the 20th century from an artistic perspective. By striving to express his own feelings, he inadvertently became one of the founders of the nascent art movement called Expressionism (like Edvard Munch or Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec).
Van Gogh also used complementary contrasting colors (especially blue and orange) to highlight the splendor of each. This is where the note from one of his letters comes from: "I want to use colors that contrast with each other, so that each of them shines even more brightly, so that they contrast like a man and a woman."
