Pink Orchard by Vincent Van Gogh Poster

Pink Orchard by Vincent Van Gogh, oil on canvas 1888, is a landscape painting of rows of planted fruit trees, blossoming in spring under the pale, striated clouds of the sky. Working in small strokes and daubs of varying oil colour with expressive, calligraphic outlines of trees and landscape elements, Van Gogh applies the lessons of the Impressionist open-air painters that he encountered in Paris to his own discoveries of painting in the south of France. The colour harmonies of pink, green and white reveal the artist’s ever deepening understanding as a landscape painter that made him one of the greatest inspirations of modern art. Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) was a Dutch painter of the Post-Impressionist movement known for bold, expressive drawing, swirling brushstrokes and intense, heightened colours. In early adulthood Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and pastor before taking up the full time study of drawing and painting in his late twenties. Influenced by Rembrandt, the 19th century Realists and Barbizon school, Van Gogh’s early paintings featured studies of workers and peasants in sombre earth tones. Moving to France in 1886, Van Gogh met with the startling innovations of the Impressionist painters and began to apply their approach to colour and subject matter, which continued into the mature style for which the artist is most renowned. Van Gogh produced many hundreds of drawings and paintings including portraits, landscapes, still life and flower paintings, and numerous self-portraits that became a dominating influence on the modern art of the 20th century and made him one of the most popular artists of all time.