Vincent van Gogh's The Plain at Auvers

Video Transcript

"But the painting is really important that the form of the painting is a very long painting and what we can see on the most of the canvas is the Plain. And only a very narrow stripe of air, what we can see. And how he used the brush strokes on the canvas is really important that in the foreground, they are rather little and in the background they are very characteristic of him. This strong rough long brush strokes. The colors are very strong and the outlines are as well. And this is the, one of the influence of the Japanese art on his works. He also had a lot of Japanese prints in his own property. And so he was studying them for years. And that's how he used the features of the Japanese art. What he said by his own words about this painting, that he wanted to express the sadness and loneliness of harvest. Because it's the, so the Plain is showed when it was harvest. So it's really, how to say, he wanted to express sadness and loneliness with this painting. And we can feel with this special perspective of the Plain. And the use of brush strokes attracts us in."