Fifer (after Manet and Van Gogh)
Pairing:
The Fifer by Edouard Manet
Van Gogh's Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 34" x 16"
Artist's Insights:
Q. Van Gogh's bedroom is a background for more than one of your paintings. What is it about that solitary room that is so compelling?
A. Compelling is the right word. I have aIways been drawn to van Gogh's life story and especially to his life in Arles.
The Q & A segment on this site contains a question I was asked a number of years ago about how some Old Masters are more difficult for me to work with than others. I answered van Gogh because of the many brushstrokes in his paintings. I had only used his bedroom, the postman and the woman from Arles at the time but I was always on the lookout for another opportunity. I repeated the bedroom and added the portrait of Armand Roulin but the real opportunity came when I started painting smaller works called Fragments. I was able to repeat his postman, add his self portrait, the yellow house in Arles in which his bedroom was located, and finally the church at Auvers in the town where he died.
The Fifer by Edouard Manet
Van Gogh's Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 34" x 16"
Artist's Insights:
Q. Van Gogh's bedroom is a background for more than one of your paintings. What is it about that solitary room that is so compelling?
A. Compelling is the right word. I have aIways been drawn to van Gogh's life story and especially to his life in Arles.
The Q & A segment on this site contains a question I was asked a number of years ago about how some Old Masters are more difficult for me to work with than others. I answered van Gogh because of the many brushstrokes in his paintings. I had only used his bedroom, the postman and the woman from Arles at the time but I was always on the lookout for another opportunity. I repeated the bedroom and added the portrait of Armand Roulin but the real opportunity came when I started painting smaller works called Fragments. I was able to repeat his postman, add his self portrait, the yellow house in Arles in which his bedroom was located, and finally the church at Auvers in the town where he died.