Vincent Van Gogh: “First Steps (after Millet), 1890. #shorts #art #vangogh

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Published on January 17, 2022 5:51:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1De3M4kn9s

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In fall and winter 1889–90, while a voluntary patient at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, Van Gogh painted twenty-one copies after Millet, an artist he greatly admired. He considered his copies "translations" akin to a musician's interpretation of a composer's work. He let the black-and-white images—whether prints, reproductions, or, as here, a photograph that his brother, Theo, had sent—pose "as a subject," then he would "improvise color on it." For this work of January 1890, Van Gogh squared-up a photograph of Millet's First Steps and transferred it to the canvas.