Painting: Vincent Van Gogh, Bedroom in Arles

On a smaller poll than devil other similar scenes, Vincent forefront van van Gogh c befully painted for the third fourth dimension his bed board in Arles, a lovely town in the south of France, and frankincense created this approximately 22 ? x 29 ar twork. In fact, van Gogh do three closely identical photos on the theme of his bedchamber and are named sleeping room in Arles . The first one, kept at the Van Gogh Museum in capital of The Netherlands is painted in October 1888. About a year after, Van Gogh do two copies one of which is the very(prenominal) surface and is preserved today at the artwork Institute of Chicago.The third one is currently at De Young Museum in San Francisco (but before belongs to the Musee dOrsay in Paris) and is smaller than the others1. This oil painting on a linen paper pollard represents Van Goghs tidy bedroom. Nothing lets us adventure that this is the room of a mountain lion. We do non know this because he does not flourish his p ainting equipment. Nothing lies around, not eve a paint tube in a corner or a disinfect. This bedroom seems to be for relaxation and not for his work as a painter. hither, he could finally forget his fatigue, adjudge round hassock, sleep in peace.The bed is thence the dominant subject of the painting, suggesting the importance of comfort and quiet. By painting his bedroom where e rattlingthing is in its place, the painter may also emergency to show that he is a very neat man who cares for himself, and who organizes his life in a reasonable manner. In accession to the prominent bed, this room exudes quietness and let outes, unattackable rest by its various shades. Indeed, the room has beautiful shiny dis colours. In Holland, where the painter was born2, the weather is not always practiced and the sky is therefore often gray.Here however, there are multiple vivacious colour in that trustedly illustrate the gifted life he had in France. perchance he had come to Arles for the sun and for him, it was an long joy to live in much(prenominal) bright bedroom, bursting with colors. What is also fascinating about(p flushedicate) this piece of art is how the painter highlights the simpleness of his bedroom through the medium of color the pale lilac walls, the floor of an obsolete brown, the chairs and bed chrome yellow, the blood red cover, the orange little table and the muddy basin, as the painter describes it.Van Gogh asserted that he precious to express a complete rest by handling all these contrasting shades2. The color black, which could be evocating a certain form of anguish, is almost nonexistent in this painting. Only the frame of the mirror and windows is black. We enjoy if this could mean that Van Gogh was unnerved of his future and afraid to face up to reality. This is a possibility. In fact, despite the try out of his rejoicing, present in this painting, Van Gogh was not married2 and numerous clues here let us think that he wish ed to be.Although the bedroom is very sparsely furnished and altogether contains essential items (which shows, in addition to the extract of colors, a groovy simplicity), we notice that many of these objects go together in pairs (two pillows, two chairs, two portraits on the wall, two drawings, and yet two doors). Thus, this painting on canvas was perhaps his way of expressing his wish to happen upon someone and that his bedroom was arranged so as to welcome her.But because it was respectable him in this bedroom, he certainly snarl less lonely by look-alike the objects. Van Goghs painting consists almost entirely of straight lines. This is reverberative of a childrens coloring which would have been filled in with color pencils, because the edges of objects are bolder and their filling up seem almost slapdash, neglected. This elaborate post-impressionist design may be compared to such work as Georges Seurats A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (book p. 370).But whereas Van Gogh pro spered paintings composed of multiple thin brush strokes, Seurat preferred the use of the pointillism system, which consisted of applying color to the canvas in tiny dots. 3 In this painting of Seurat, the color also focuses on hues. There are numerous colors too, their contrast is intense, and the sun shine, like in the Van Goghs bedroom, fills the picture, suggesting happiness and tranquility. Like Van Gogh, Seurat played with repetitious forms (the parasols, mickle in profile, trees, and boats).People in this piece are rigid. In fact, they do not seem to move, but on the contrary, seem to be strangely paralyzed, paralleling the piece of furniture of Van Goghs bedroom. Strangely, Van Goghs furniture seems to be all the same more alive than the people in the Seurats painting. The two painters did not have the same approach when they clear-cut which colors they wanted to illuminate their canvases season Van Gogh was guided by his emotions and instant feelings, Seurat carefully analyzed the colors and meticulously calculated values. But in both pieces, Van Gogh and Seurat express their sense of organization by make objects, forms, motifs and colors coherent. To conclude, the mesmerizing, luminous colors, and the well organized motifs of the depiction of Van Goghs bedroom, were not the game of chance. Everything in this painting seems to echo the emotions of Van Gogh, expressing at the same time his happiness in Arles and the great peace and tranquility he mat up there, but also his desire to find his soul mate, with who he could share his hearthstone and thus, reach happiness certainly even more.