Van Gogh Notebook: Blossoming Almond Tree ( Journal / Cuaderno / Portable / Gift )

Van Gogh Notebook: Blossoming Almond Tree ( Journal / Cuaderno / Portable / Gift )
ISBN-10
1492940429
ISBN-13
9781492940425
Series
Van Gogh Notebook
Category
Art
Pages
74
Language
English
Published
2013-10-10
Publisher
CreateSpace
Author
Smart Books

Description

Van Gogh Notebook [$6.99 / £3.99] A handy smART bookx notebook for van Gogh fans everywhere. Great as a gift or a treat for yourself. Cover: Tough Paperback. Artwork: A high resolution print of 'Blossoming Almond Tree' wrapped around the front and back covers. Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 cm / 8 x 5 inches. (A touch smaller than A5 but much bigger than A6 – it fits easily in a bag but not in a pocket.) Interior: 60 pages of good quality pure white paper, all lined with 23 lines to a page. Not what you're looking for? We have plenty more designs to choose from at smartbookx.com. There you can quickly browse by category and then click straight back through to the Amazon page you need. Thanks for looking, The smART bookx design team About Blossoming Almond Tree Born in The Dutch Brabant in the Netherlands, Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) is the most famous painter of the Expressionist Art movement. Van Gogh's broad and vibrant brushstrokes (a novel style in its day) impart a unique resonance to his paintings which are today loved the world over. Van Gogh never married or had children of his own but he painted Blossoming Almond Tree in 1890 as a gift to celebrate the birth of his nephew, the son of his brother Theo van Gogh (to whom Vincent was very close). It was thus intended to hang in a child's nursery which explains the subtle softness and choice of a 'baby blue' color that we rarely see elsewhere in van Gogh's art. Vincent, like many of his contemporaries, had recently discovered Japanese Art with great enthusiasm and the influence of the Japanese floral style is clearly evident in the painting's composition which focuses on the almond tree's internal branch structure rather than any overall form as would have been expected of traditional western art at the time. A particularly poignant fact about Blossoming Almond Tree is that it was created to celebrate a new life and yet van Gogh was sadly to end his own life only a few weeks later aged only 37 (ironically exactly the same age as another great artistic pioneer, Raphael, had also died just over 350 years earlier).

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