Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s ...

Van Gogh, who was passionate about painting from the figure ... (early 1889), against a luminous spotted and dotted floral background, is strikingly different from the first—more focused ...

The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The ... the team also found that the paint, at the smallest scale, mixes around with some background swirls and whirls in ...

During calmer moments Van Gogh painted the roses in the hospital garden at St Rémy. Against the dense foliage, the pale pink blossoms are like dancing spots of delight; but turmoil seems to resurface ...

Vincent Van Gogh, ‘Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background’, 1889 (© The ... You’ll be looking at a painting and your heart will simply explode with joy. It happened to me while ...

where Van Gogh and Gauguin worked together, and the city’s alleyways are still a warren of dun-coloured walls, pantile roofs and shuttered windows. It is down one such alleyway that I find the ...

a connection to a region associated with the Marseille-based Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), whose crusty paintings Van Gogh admired.