Vincent Van Gogh Fishing Boats of St Marie Updated

Vincent Van Gogh Fishing Boats of St Marie

Line-fishing Boats on the Embankment at Saintes-Maries, June 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (F413)

Saintes-Maries is the subject of a series of paintings that Vincent van Gogh made in 1888. When Van Gogh lived in Arles, he took a trip to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the Mediterranean Sea, where he made several paintings of the seascape and boondocks.

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer [ edit ]

In June 1888, Van Gogh took a 30-mile stagecoach trip from Arles to the body of water-side fishing village of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Van Gogh'south week-long trip was taken to recover from his wellness issues and make some seaside paintings and drawings. At that time, Saintes-Maries was a small fishing village with under a hundred homes.^[1]

Seaside [ edit ]

In merely a few days, he fabricated two paintings of the ocean, one of the village and nine drawings. 1 of the paintings was Van Gogh Museum's Fishing Boats on the Embankment at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F413), which he described to his blood brother, Theo: "I fabricated the drawing of the boats when I left very early in the morning, and I am now working on a painting based on it, a size 30 canvas with more than sea and heaven on the right. It was earlier the boats hastened out; I had watched them every morning, but equally they leave very early I didn't accept time to pigment them."^[2] Some of the work on the painting was finished in the studio, such equally capturing the light in the sand, sea and sky.^[1]

Another seascape Van Gogh made was The Bounding main at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F415) in which he sought to capture light's effect on the sea. He wrote that the "Mediterranean Body of water is a mackerel color: in other words, changeable – y'all do non ever know whether information technology is dark-green or majestic, yous do not always know if information technology is blue, as the next moment the ever-changing sheen has assumed a pink or a gray tint." The setting includes fishing boats returning to the village. To emphasize dissimilarity to the colour green in the painting, Van Gogh signs his name in big brilliant red messages.^[3]

Fishing Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F1433) is 1 of Van Gogh'due south reed pen drawings of Saint-Maries which he based on his painting The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (F415). The fluid movements of Van Gogh's pen bring an free energy to the drawing, not intended to be a mimetic copy. Both his choice of the reed pen and the "placement of tiered-patterned strokes" reverberate the influence of Japanese prints. He brings life to the painting through technique. The Pointillist dotted sky accentuates the clouds. Whitecaps are evoked by the vertical lines and horizontal lines portray the calmer sea in the distance.^[iv]

Seascape at Saintes-Maries (Angling Boats at Sea) was painted six years afterwards Van Gogh wrote that he wished to paint a seaside painting of sand, sea and heaven. In this painting the combination of a loftier horizon and boats close to the top border of the frame, depict the audience in to the choppy body of water in the foreground and middle of the flick. He besides fabricated three drawings of this composition.^[1]

The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F415)
Fishing Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, Pen and ink and pencil, June 1888, St. Louis Museum of Art (F1433)
Seascape at Saintes-Maries (Fishing Boats at Sea), 1888, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia (F417)
Angling Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, Reed pen, 1888, Private collection (F1428)
Boats at Saintes-Maries, Reed pen and ink over graphite on wove paper, Late July-early on August 1888, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, watercolor, 1888, Hermitage Museum, St. petersburg, Russia (F1429)

Town [ edit ]

In the painting View of Saintes-Maries (F416), Van Gogh painted rows of what is likely lavender from the foreground to the boondocks of Saintes-Maries in the heart of the frame, thereby drawing the viewer into the painting. A wall encloses the town in which a big church becomes the focal betoken. The painting takes upon a 3-dimensional appearance, starting with relief-like layers of blue paint in the sky. Finer brushstrokes were used on the field and town buildings.^[1]

Street in Saintes-Maries, Reed pen, 1888, Private Drove (F1434)
Street in Saintes-Maries, 1888, Private Drove (F420)

The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a cartoon that Van Gogh made titled The Route at Saintes-Maries. It is also known as Cottages in Saintes-Maries (F1436).^[5]

References [ edit ]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Beaujean, 48-89.
^ "Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888". Permanent Collection. Van Gogh Museum. 2005–2011. Retrieved 2011-05-eighteen .
^ "The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888". Permanent Collection. Van Gogh Museum. 2005–2011. Retrieved 2011-05-18 .
^ "Fishing Boats at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 1888". Drove. St. Louis Museum of Art. 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-xviii .
^ "The Route at Saintes-Maries". Collections. Philadelphia Museum of Art. 2011. Retrieved 2011-05-21 .

Bibliography [ edit ]

Beaujean, D (2000). Van Gogh: Life and Work. Cologne: Konemann. ISBN 3-8290-2938-one.