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Women On The Peat Moor Large Framed Print
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Van Gogh painted these peasant women in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the rural Dutch province of Drenthe. He spent two months there in the autumn of 1883. The women are at work, probably gathering dried-out peat sods. Van Gogh was fascinated with the simple country life. He had already spent more than two years trying to 'examine and draw everything that's part of a peasant's life', he wrote.
While painting Women on the Peat Moor, he changed his mind about the scene a couple of times. For instance, research has shown that he first painted four figures rather than two. |
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Women On The Peat Moor Large Framed Print
Framed With Mat • 47x36 inches
Van Gogh painted these peasant women in the village of Nieuw-Amsterdam, in the rural Dutch province of Drenthe. He spent two months there in the autumn of 1883. The women are at work, probably gathering dried-out peat sods. Van Gogh was fascinated with the simple country life. He had already spent more than two years trying to 'examine and draw everything that's part of a peasant's life', he wrote. While painting Women on the Peat Moor, he changed his mind about the scene a couple of times. For instance, research has shown that he first painted four figures rather than two.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks but received little recognition during his lifetime.
Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime and was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge". His reputation began to grow in the early 20th century as elements of his painting style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists.
Van gogh attained widespread critical, commercial and popular success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter, whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.