The Church In Auvers-sur-oise

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The Church In Auvers-sur-oise

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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"The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise"

Artist: Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)

Title: The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise

French: L'église d'Auvers-sur-Oise, vue du chevet
The church in Auvers-sur-Oise, view from the Chevet

Genre: Landscape art

Date: Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: Height: 93 cm (36.6 in); Width: 74.5 cm (29.3 in)

Collection: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Painting History: Acquired with the participation of Paul Gachet and of an anonymous Canadian donation, 1951

After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris.

His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists, who accepted to treat him. During the two months separating his arrival, on May 21, 1890 and his death on July 29, the artist made about seventy paintings, over one per day, not to mention a large number of drawings.

This is the only painting representing in full the church in Auvers that may sometimes be distinguished in the background of views of the whole village. This church, built in the 13th century in the early Gothic style, flanked by two Romanesque chapels, became under the painter's brush a flamboyant monument on the verge of dislocating itself from the ground and from the two paths that seem to be clasping it like torrents of lava or mud.

If one compares this painting with Claude Monet's paintings of the cathedral in Rouen, painted shortly afterwards, one can measure how different Van Gogh's approach was from that of the impressionists. Unlike Monet, he did not try to render the impression of the play of light on the monument. Even though the church remains recognisable, the painting does not so much offer the spectator a faithful image of reality than a form of "expression" of a church.

The artistic means used by Van Gogh anticipate the work of the fauvists and expressionist painters.

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness, depression and poverty.

Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept a long correspondence by letter.

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Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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