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View Of Auvers With Church (van Gogh)
''View of Auvers with Church'' is a Post-Impressionism, post-impressionist oil painting by Vincent van Gogh, completed in July 1890 and which hangs at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum in Providence, Rhode Island, Providence. The work is one of two known paintings by Van Gogh depicting the Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption d'Auvers-sur-Oise, Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption in Auvers-sur-Oise, the other named ''The Church at Auvers''. Description The painting features yellow wheatfields in the front with a hillside view of the parts of Auvers-sur-Oise around the church and curling clouds and skies above the town. The church of Auvers is located at the top-left of the painting and rises high above the rooftops of the surrounding houses. The painting is on a relatively small canvas for Van Gogh's works, with dimensions of only 34 × 42.1 cm in contrast to ''The Church at Auvers'', which has 74 cm × 94 cm. See also *List of works by Vincent van Gogh Note ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oil Painting
Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on copper, copper for several centuries. The advantages of oil for painting images include "greater flexibility, richer and denser color, the use of layers, and a wider range from light to dark". The oldest known oil paintings were created by Buddhism, Buddhist artists in Afghanistan, and date back to the 7th century AD. Oil paint was later developed by Europeans for painting statues and woodwork from at least the 12th century, but its common use for painted images began with Early Netherlandish painting in Northern Europe, and by the height of the Renaissance, oil painting techniques had almost completely replaced the use of egg tempera paints for panel paintings in most of Europe, though not for Orthodox icons or wall paintings, where tempera a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
