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• Aug 2, 20262.1x their median

  Look closely. You can almost feel the swirls 🌀 Van Gogh used impasto, applying paint thickly so each brushstroke remains visible. He began exploring this technique in Paris (1886–1888), influenced by the Impressionists. By the time he painted ‘The Starry Night’ in Saint-Rémy, his impasto became more pronounced and expressive. 🖼️ details from ‘The Starry Night’ © MoMA

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• Aug 9, 20262.0x their median

  Van Gogh planned each painting carefully in advance, allowing him to work quickly, although he was sometimes criticised for this. To his brother Theo, he wrote, 'If people say they’re done too quickly, you can reply that they looked at them too quickly.' 🖼️ ‘The White Cottage Among the Olive Trees’, 1889 © Private collection

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• Jul 29, 20261.7x their median

  Today, we remember Vincent van Gogh, who passed away 136 years ago. Jo missed her husband Theo, Vincent's brother, who died six months after Vincent. She read their letters and recognized the feeling of feeling abandoned and alone. Grief touches everyone at some point in life. It can feel isolating, like walking through a storm alone — just as Jo described. But grief is also a thread that connects us. A quiet language we all, at some point, come to understand. 💬 How do you carry grief? Or do you have tips for someone dealing with grief at the moment? #Vincentvangogh #Vangogh

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• Aug 12, 20261.7x their median

  If you had to describe this painting in one word, what would it be? 🖼️ 'Two Poplars in the Alpilles near Saint-Rémy', 1889 © The Cleveland Museum of Art https://t.co/lSNB4WwtMR

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• Jul 18, 20261.7x their median

  Fun Fact 💡We probably all know Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night over the Rhône' (Musée d’Orsay) and the even more famous ‘Starry Night' (MoMa), but this painting is actually the last night painting Vincent made with stars and moonlight. ✨ Vincent didn't seem to assign much significance to the painting. In a letter to his brother Theo, written six weeks before his death, he described it as ‘a study'. 🌝 'The White House at Night', 1890 ©️ The Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

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• Jul 28, 20261.6x their median

  ‘I imagine it would disappoint you and appear ugly were you to see it.’ Vincent wrote this to his sister Willemien about this very painting...🤯 ‘I know very well that not a single flower was drawn, that they're just little licks of colour.’ He wasn't being modest – he genuinely doubted anyone would understand his technique. What do you think Vincent would say if he saw how we look at this painting today? 🖼️ ‘Garden at Arles’, 1888 © Kunstmuseum Den Haag

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• Aug 16, 20261.6x their median

  🧠 Van Gogh’s desire to learn runs like a golden thread through his letters. He consistently expresses his need for knowledge, his ambition to improve. Starting his artistic journey at 27, he stood out among his contemporaries, most of whom had formal training; Vincent was largely self-taught. Aware of his need for guidance, he actively sought it out. Van Gogh connected with several teachers, but his most significant influences were his ‘paper tutors’ – artists he discovered through books and reproductions. Van Gogh passionately admired role models like Delacroix, Millet and Rembrandt. 1 'Pietà (after Delacroix)', 1889 ©️ Van Gogh Museum 2 'The Sheaf-Binder (after Millet)', 1889 ©️ Van Gogh Museum 3 'The Raising of Lazarus (after Rembrandt)', 1890 ©️ Van Gogh Museum

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• Aug 1, 2026

  In 1888, Van Gogh painted this glowing scene of a farmer sowing seeds. Take another look. That bright sun? It looks like a halo. 🌞 Vincent saw beauty in rural life and, with Gauguin’s encouragement, used colour and imagination to make the ordinary feel sacred. 🖼️ ‘The Sower’, 1888 © Van Gogh Museum

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• Aug 24, 2026

  Van Gogh only sold one work? Well… not quite. This painting, ‘The Red Vineyard’, sold for 400 francs to Belgian painter and collector Anna Boch, the sister of Vincent’s artist friend Eugène Boch. But Vincent also traded paintings, drawings and prints – another form of value and exchange. He even felt awkward about not offering a friend ‘mates’ rates’. If only he knew what his work would be worth one day. 🖼️ © Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

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• Jul 25, 2026

  💭 Vincent painted this work as a memory of Brabant, the place where he had grown up. The huts you see here belonged to the poor labourers, which he called 'peoples' nests'. These 'nests' represent the rural life of Brabant and the security of family life, both of which he missed while being a patient in the psychiatric institution in Saint-Rémy. Can you tell that Vincent painted this from memory? 🖼️ Houses and figure, 1890 © The Barnes Foundation

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