VAN GOGH & MONET set of 2 money boxes

"Almond Tree & Nympheas"

Main works :

Iris, Sunflowers, Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles at Night, Self-portrait, Vincent's bedroom in Arles, The Starry night.

Artistic movement :

Post-Impressionism. Vincent Van Gogh prefigures the Fauvism.

Inspiration, influence :

Millet and Delacroix, for the composition and the naturalism. Anton Mauve who was his master for the technique and Hiroshige for the approach of the painter regarding the nature...

His contemporaries :

He shares the post impressionnism period with Cézane or Gauguin, then he shares the pre-expressionistic period with Munch or Ensor. Each of these artists making in his own way, the transition between the visual impressions (Monet or Renoir) and the expressions of felt (Schiele ou Kokoschka).

To keep in mind :

Vincent van Gogh is one of the essential links of the evolution of the art, but it will be necessary to wait for the historians to establish this fact. His contemporaries almost totally missed the Van Gogh revolution.

To go further :

If the role of Théo Van Gogh, the brother of Vincent, is very well known, the one of his widow Johanna Bonger (since Théo died one year after Vincent), is much less known. She effectiveley the first exhibitions, in Netherland (from 1898) and so succeeded in making recognize the work of her brother-in-law, publishing also the letters of Vincent... She greatly participated in Vincent's legend.

Main works :

Impression rising sun, The Bridge of Giverny, Poppies, White water lilies, The Cathedrals of Rouen.

Artistic movement :

Impressionism : the painting "Impression rising sun" gave its name to the movement).

Inspiration, influence :

Claude Monet met Eugène Boudin very early and made with him his first pictorial steps. Then Delacroix marked one of the stages of his pictorial evolution. Finally William Turner met during a journey in London, is the last milestone which leads him to the Impressionism.

His contemporaries :

Renoir, Monet, Pissaro, Sisley and Bazille, the other impressionists... Octave Mirbeau, The writer, who participated in the recognition of the painter through its texts and obviously Paul Durand-Ruel, the Art dealer, who had a determining importance in Claude Monet's career.

To keep in mind :

Monet is, with Renoir, the great painter of the Impressionism. He knew how to learn during all his life. The series he made, until being completely satisfied, explain his extreme mastery.

To go further :

Claude Monet is the main inspiration of Emile Zola's novel "L'Oeuvre".