ART

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
The Church
In Auvers-sur-Oise,
View of the Chevet
1890

Between his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise on 21 May 1890 and death on 29 July, Van Gogh painted some seventy pictures. There is only one painting of the gothic church in the village, Van Gogh opted for a low - angle view of the chevet. The ustabil lines and brushstrokes accentuate the impression that the scene is distorted. The use of light in the scene is contradictory. The foreground is brightly lit, but the church is silhouetted against a cobalt blue back ground suggesting a stormy sky or night time.

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

The drapery of a kneeling figure c. 1491 - 94.
(detail)

In april 1483 Leonardo was commissioned to paint an alterpiece, now know as the Virgin of the Rocks, for a church in Milan. A first version (Louvre, Paris) was not delivered, for uncertain reasons; instead he began a second version (National Gallery, London) in the early 1490s, which was finally installed in 1508. This is the study for the Angel's drapery in the second painting.

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The Musée National d'Art Moderne is the national museum for modern art in France. It is located in Paris in the Centre Pompidou. It is among the most visited art museums in the world. The museum has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe from the 20th- and 21th - century, with more than 100,000 works of art by 6,400 artists from 90 countries the collection begins in with Fauvism in 1905.

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1. Claude Monet ( 1840 - 1926)
Chrysanthémes 1897.
Private Collection

2. Claude Monet
Massif de chrysanthémes 1897.
Kunstmuseum Basel

3. Gustave Caillebotte (1848 - 1894)
Chrysanthémes blance et jaunes, 1893.
Paris, musée Marmottan-Monet

Chrysanthémums are much in vogue in late 19th century Europa, celebrated fore fore there bright colours and late flowering season. The painting by Caillebotte was owned by Monet for over thirty years and inspired his own Chrysanthémum compositions.

Monet pays tribute to Gustave Caillebotte from whom, shortly after the artist's death, he received the Chrysanthémes 1893 on display here.

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