The Red Vineyards in Arles Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Description of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Red Vineyards of Arles

Subsequently, the great, and in his lifetime not at all appreciated by his compatriots, artist Vincent Van Gogh sold just one painting, its value equal to 400 francs, which for a poor pauper artist was a fortune. The painting sold had an intriguing title - "Red Vineyards in Arles" and today the price of this painting exceeds 90 million dollars.

The history of the painting is as follows:

Not at all successful with the critics and the local public, Wag Gogh did not despair, but continued to paint painting after painting, in the hope that the next painting would surely bring good fortune and fame. But it didn’t happen and the canvases were piling up in his miserable apartment while he kept painting, preferring to paint from life, rightly believing that when he got home many of the colors will be lost to memory and it would be difficult to restore them.

One day in 1888 Van Gogh went to paint in the countryside as usual and didn’t return until late afternoon. Van Gogh noticed the setting sun in the direction of his house as the carriage took off and its rays lit up the nearby vineyard, turning the vine leaves into a blazing red blaze and the people and land around them into bright purple and blue dots. The sky, on the other hand, turned completely yellow.

Immediately ordering the driver to stop the horse, the artist dismounted from the cart and began to paint the landscape, striving to capture that moment that so overwhelmed his imagination. Thus the painting The Red Vineyards of Arles was born. Critics and people not interested in the artist’s work sought to ridicule this picture, saying that everything in it is unnatural, although what could be more beautiful and natural than simple peasant labor in the rays of the evening sunset.

There are highlights of green and yellow light from the sun which turn the vine leaves in the foreground into a crimson glow. The earth is pitch-black, almost purple, as seen by the artist. For those who continue to argue that this is unnatural, you simply need to get out of the house sometimes and admire the sunset, which gives everything around you a unique magic.