Category: Van Gogh’s Art
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Van Gogh’s chair

Van Gogh painted two companion paintings of chairs during his time in Arles. One was of his chair and the other of Gauguin’s chair. Gauguin had lived with Van Gogh in the Yellow House for nine weeks. These paintings are so rich in symbolic layers that they are better thought of as portraits portraying their…
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The Old Church Tower at Nuenen 1885

The Old Church Tower provides us with a closer look at how Vincent viewed peasant life and religion. Vincent lived near this old church tower in Nuenen, which was once connected to a church that collapsed around a hundred years earlier. Scattered around the tower are the graves of various farmers who lived in the…
