Van Gogh "The Church in Auvers"
The Church in Auvers, 94×74 cm, 1890, held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Auvers-sur-Oise was Van Gogh's most dramatic final destination. This radiant, dancing church is full of alluring beauty, revealing the painter's fragile soul.
The Church in Auvers, 94×74 cm, 1890, held at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Auvers-sur-Oise was Van Gogh's most dramatic final destination. This radiant, dancing church is full of alluring beauty, revealing the painter's fragile soul. The trembling church sits on a mossy hill, with a woman walking along the path beside it. In the painter's nearly frantic brushstrokes, forcibly applied explosive colors achieve a willful visual expression; the sudden appearance of this sorrowful and moving church is like Van Gogh's own midnight scream.
Van Gogh described this painting: "Finally I have my greatest village church picture. There, the building seems slightly purple against the azure sky, with some blue dots for stained glass windows, the church roof is purple, partly orange-yellow, while the foreground features the verdant green of flowers and grass and the pink of sunlit sand." Under this celebration of color, the arrival of Expressionism and Fauvism is foreshadowed.