Path in the Park by Vincent van Gogh was created in 1888. The painting is in Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo. The size of the work is 72,3 x 93 cm and is made as an oil on canvas.
That intimacy is reflected in this sunny work. Van Gogh depicts the grass and trees in various shades of green, yellow and orange, with some dark touches added to the canopy here and there to provide extra structure. He himself is also in a sunny mood: ‘I’m beginning to feel quite different from what I was when I came here, I have no more doubts, I no longer hesitate to tackle something, and that could increase still further’.
About the Artist: Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert. Van Gogh was a serious and thoughtful child. His interest in art began at a young age. Constant Cornelis Huijsmans, who had been a successful artist in Paris, taught the students at Tilburg. His philosophy was to reject technique in favour of capturing the impressions of things, particularly nature or common objects. Van Gogh’s profound unhappiness seems to have overshadowed the lessons, which had little effect. In March 1868, he abruptly returned home. He later wrote that his youth was “austere and cold, and sterile”… Read more
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