1,000+ Artworks by Vincent Van Gogh Digitized & Put On-line by Dutch Museums

It will get darkish earlier than din­ner now in my a part of the world, a recipe for sea­son­al depres­sion. Vin­cent van Gogh wrote about such low really feel­ings with deep perception. “One feels as if one have been mendacity sure hand and foot on the bot­tom of a deep darkish properly, utter­ly assist­much less.” But, when he appeared up on the evening sky he noticed not darkish­ness however blaz­ing gentle: a full moon shines yel­low from White Home at Evening just like the solar, and peeks like a gold coin from behind blue moun­tains in Land­scape with Wheat Sheaves and Ris­ing Moon. The celebrities in Star­ry Evening Over the Rhône appear as if fireplace­works. We’re all famil­iar with the blaz­ing evening sky of its sequel, The Star­ry Evening.

It’s been sug­gest­ed that Van Gogh noticed halos of sunshine due to lead poi­son­ing from his paint, and that the Dig­i­tal­is Dr. Gachet pre­scribed for his tem­po­ral lobe epilep­sy brought about him to “see in yel­low,” the Van Gogh Gallery Weblog writes, “or see yel­low spots which might clarify van Gogh’s con­sis­tent use of the col­or yel­low in his lat­er works.”

His most bril­liant works date from this lat­er peri­od, dur­ing his time on the hos­pi­tal at Arles, the place he paint­ed his well-known mattress­room. All of those paint­ings, and hun­dreds extra, could be present in high-res­o­lu­tion scans on the new van Gogh useful resource, Van Gogh World­extensive, “a con­sor­tium of muse­ums,” notes Madeleine Muz­dakis at My Mod­ern Met, “doing their half to carry the work of one of many world’s most well-known artists to the glob­al mass­es.”

The muse­ums rep­re­despatched­ed listed below are all within the Nether­lands and embody the Van Gogh Muse­um, Kröller-Müller Muse­um, the Rijksmu­se­um, the Nether­lands Insti­tute for Artwork His­to­ry, and the Muse­um Boi­j­mans Van Beunin­gen. Van Gogh was not solely a professional­lif­ic painter, of shin­ing evening scenes and oth­er­smart, however he was “additionally a professional­lif­ic sketch artist. His pen­cil and paper draw­ings are value explo­ration; they depict land­scapes in addition to emo­tive fig­ures from Van Gogh’s each­day life. Van Gogh World­extensive professional­vides perception into these artworks and the artist behind them. One also can discover behind-the-scenes muse­um infor­ma­tion, akin to particulars of restora­tions, ver­so (again) pictures, and oth­er cura­to­r­i­al notes.”

Van Gogh World­extensive expands oth­er dig­i­tal col­lec­tions just like the Van Gogh Museum’s virtually 1,000 on-line works. The place that useful resource consists of quick infor­ma­tion­al arti­cles and hyperlinks to lit­er­a­ture concerning the artwork­works, Van Gogh World­extensive doesn’t, as but, fea­ture such addi­tion­al mate­ri­als, but it surely does embody hyperlinks to Van Gogh’s let­ters. In one among them, he writes to his broth­er, Theo, about their par­ents: “They’ll discover it dif­fi­cult to beneath­stand my way of thinking, and never know what dri­ves me once they see me do issues that appear unusual and pecu­liar to them—will blame them on dis­sat­is­fac­tion, indif­fer­ence or non­cha­lance, whereas the trigger lies else­the place, identify­ly the need, in any respect prices, to pur­sue what I should have for my work.”

Notice: An ear­li­er ver­sion of this put up appeared on our website in 2020.

Relat­ed Con­tent: 

Vin­cent Van Gogh’s “The Star­ry Evening”: Why It’s a Nice Paint­ing in 15 Min­utes

Down­load Hun­dreds of Van Gogh Paint­ings, Sketch­es & Let­ters in Excessive Res­o­lu­tion

Dis­cov­er the Solely Paint­ing Van Gogh Ever Bought Dur­ing His Life­time

Vin­cent Van Gogh’s Remaining Paint­ing: Dis­cov­er Tree Roots, the Final Cre­ative Act of the Dutch Painter (1890)

Josh Jones is a author and musi­cian primarily based in Durham, NC.