27/06/2025
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
The Church
In Auvers-sur-Oise,
View of the Chevet
1890
Between his arrival in Auvers-sur-Oise on 21 May 1890 and death on 29 July, Van Gogh painted some seventy pictures. There is only one painting of the gothic church in the village, Van Gogh opted for a low - angle view of the chevet. The ustabil lines and brushstrokes accentuate the impression that the scene is distorted. The use of light in the scene is contradictory. The foreground is brightly lit, but the church is silhouetted against a cobalt blue back ground suggesting a stormy sky or night time.
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📷 John Jensen