Today is the start of spring in the northern hemisphere! 🍃🌷
📝 ‘…you know these subjects are among the ones that cheer everyone up’, he wrote to his brother Theo about blossoming trees.
This painting shows Van Gogh’s Yellow House. With the steam train down the road and the people on the street, it must have been a noisy part of town. Can you imagine the urban sounds that would have surrounded Vincent while he was painting?
📝‘...everything his hand makes has a sweet, heart-rending, astonishing character’, wrote Vincent about the work of his friend Paul Gauguin. Van Gogh’s brother Theo purchased this painting by Gauguin for the collection that he was building up together with Vincent.
There were once two cells that each had the DNA in its nucleus labeled. What would become of the cells? Only time-lapse would tell. In the end, one would die and one would divide. Thus starting a new story- There were once two cells...
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‘… why must the woman on the left have a sort of little pipe stem with a cube on it for a nose’. Artist and friend Anthon van Rappard was clearly not keen on Van Gogh’s masterpiece. Their friendship took a knock following Anthon’s criticism. Find out more:https://t.co/J8qOr5af05
📝 ‘I sincerely wish you the best in the new year, I wish you well and may you be blessed in all things’. 2020 was a tough year, for everyone. Shall we continue to be inspired by Vincent van Gogh in 2021? 💛
Vincent thought that the paintings you can see here truly belonged together. He enclosed a sketch of the triptych he was planning on making with a letter he sent to Theo. Curious? See the sketch on our website: https://t.co/wHLWXofzfL