My wife likes the paintings, especially the one I bought for her. This still life resembles the Japanese art of flower arrangement, ikebana, in its simplicity and evoked hopefulness as well as in its formal use of empty space. Udstilling af malerier og tegninger, 22 June 1946 - 14 July 1946, Malmö, Malmö Museum, Vincent van Gogh. 99. In connection with his painting Farmhouse in Provence (1888), the National Gallery of Art notes that, "It was sun that van Gogh sought in Provence, a brilliance and light that would wash out detail and simplify forms, A broken-off sprig is set in a simple glass. Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Van Gogh & Japan, 24 March 2018 - 24 June 2018, Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art (Kyoto), Van Gogh & Japan, 20 January 2018 - 4 March 2018, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Van Gogh & Japan, 24 October 2017 - 8 January 2018, Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Van Gogh & Japan, 26 August 2017 - 15 October 2017, Helsinki, Ateneum Art Museum, Japanomania in the North, 18 February 2016 - 15 May 2016. Created in 1890 as Van Gogh was recovering at the Saint Paul Asylum in Saint-Remy in the south of France. Written c. 20 February 1890 in Saint-Rémy", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Almond_Blossoms&oldid=963381388, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 June 2020, at 14:18. The painting “Blossoming almond” is fantastic with bright colors, tender shapes and professional techniques. Theo wrote to his brother Vincent on January 31, 1890, to announce the birth of his son, Vincent Willem van Gogh. [9], Vincent wrote to Theo, "Down here it is freezing hard and there is still snow in the countryside," and he has "two small studies of an almond-tree branch already in flower in spite of it." Keep up the wonderful work you all do! Many thank’s to Erik and the artists at Van Gogh Studio. My home now looks like an art museum thanks to VanGoghStudio. He was very close to his brother and he sought to symbolize new life in the flowers of the almond tree for the birth of baby Vincent.[3].
"[15], The composition is unlike any other of van Gogh's paintings. On 2 March, a little more than a week later, he wrote to his brother, 'There’s a hard frost here, and out in the country there’s still snow — I have a study of a whitened landscape with the town in the background. In mid-March 1888 van Gogh writes of the weather and that the almond trees are coming into full flower, "The weather here is changeable, often windy with turbulent skies, but the almond trees are beginning to flower everywhere."
The idea that Vincent painted the Almond Blossom for his nephew is why I have always loved this work. [3] The bright color is reflective of the paintings made in Arles and the transformational work van Gogh had on the still life genre. His use of bright color reflects this. Utställning anordnad till förmån för svenska hollandshjälpen, 29 May 1946 - 16 June 1946, Gothenburg, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Vincent van Gogh. I have bought such a wonderful piece of art! Blossoming Almond Tree - Vincent van Gogh . 18, Kōbe, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 7 September 2002 - 4 November 2002, Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Vincent & Theo van Gogh, 5 July 2002 - 25 August 2002, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Van Gogh's Van Goghs. My guests always commented it’s not so easy to distinguish it from the original. [17], Almond Tree in Bloom, 1888Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (F557), The Pink Orchard also Orchard with Blossoming Apricot Trees, March 1888Van Gogh Museum, (F555), Peach Tree in Blossom, March–April 1888Van Gogh Museum, (F404), Flowering peach trees also Souvenir de Mauve, 1888Kröller-Müller Museum, Blossoming Pear Tree, March–April 1888Van Gogh Museum, (F405), Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses, April 1888Kröller-Müller Museum, (F513), Blossoming Almond Tree by Vincent van Gogh, "Vincent van Gogh. van Herbert Henkels, Het Rijksmuseum voor moderne kunst van Willem Steenhoff : werkelijkheid of utopie?, p. 207, Published by Paul Andriesse, Some trees, 2003, Louis van Tilborgh; Nienke Bakker; Cornelia Homburg ... [et al.