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The Sea at Les Saintes Maries de la Mer | Van Gogh Golf Head Cover
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The Sea at Les Saintes Maries de la Mer | Van Gogh Golf Head Cover
The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer depicts three boats floating on a calm sea with special attention to light and colour. A fisherman is visible guiding the boat in the painting’s foreground. The painting’s high horizon places emphasis on the vast sea, with varying shades of blue and green standing out against the boats. Compared to the other dramatic seascape Van Gogh painted at Saintes-Maries, this one is calm and quaint, with nonthreatening waves rendered in blue and green. Horizontal lines close to the horizon represent calm seas, while swirling lines and whitecaps in the foreground suggest turbulence and nod to one of Van Gogh's favourite Japanese works, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
The different shades of colour Van Gogh used to depict the sea capture light’s interactions with water. He wrote that the "Mediterranean Sea is a mackerel colour: in other words, changeable – you do not always know whether it is green or purple, you do not always know if it is blue, as the next moment the ever-changing sheen has assumed a pink or a grey tint." To contrast with the colour of the water, Van Gogh signed his name in large red letters.
The scene is painted with thick impasto, emphasizing the tumultuous waves and uneven sea. To achieve this effect, Van Gogh squeezed paint directly onto the canvas and created texture using his palette knife rather than a traditional brush. This is most visible in the crest of the waves crashing in the painting's foreground. Unlike Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, which was painted in a studio, this work was likely created on the beach en plein air, as is indicated by grains of sand that have been found embedded in the paint.
Weeks after completing the painting, Van Gogh referred to boats in the ocean as a metaphor in a letter to his brother, Theo. Van Gogh wrote that artists like himself were "sailing on the high seas in our small and wretched boats, isolated on the great waves of time."
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