''Girl in White in the Woods'' is an oil painting created in 1882 by
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (; 30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, inc ...
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Of a study that Van Gogh made for ''Girl in a Wood'' or ''Girl in White in the Woods,'' he remarked at how much he enjoyed the work and explains how he wishes to trigger the audience's senses and how they may experience the painting: "The other study in the wood is of some large green beech trunks on a stretch of ground covered with dry sticks, and the little figure of a girl in white. There was the great difficulty of keeping it clear, and of getting space between the trunks standing at different distances - and the place and relative bulk of those trunks change with the perspective - to make it so that one can breathe and walk around in it, and to make you smell the fragrance of the wood."
See also
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List of works by Vincent van Gogh
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Early works of Vincent van Gogh
The earliest known works of Vincent van Gogh comprise a group of paintings and drawings that Vincent van Gogh made when he was 27 and 28, in 1881 and 1882. Over the course of the two-year period Van Gogh lived in several places. He left Brussels, ...
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''Paintings of Children'' (Van Gogh series)
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Paintings by Vincent van Gogh
Paintings of the Netherlands by Vincent van Gogh
1882 paintings
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