GOGH, Vincent van (b. 1853, Groot Zundert, d. 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise) |
Flowering GardenJuly 1888, ArlesOil on canvas, 92 x 73 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
Catalogue numbers: F 430, JH 1520. This painting of a flowering garden is a chaotic confusion of shapes and colours, full of vitality - a luxuriant scene of growth, more a jungle than a garden. There is a sheer and basic vitality in the growth in the garden, it seems unbounded, forceful, like van Gogh's own vigour. He made a graphic version (F 1456) of this subject, too. |