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Portrait of a Woman by Vincent Van Gogh

Portrait of a Woman by Vincent Van Gogh

The canvas “Portrait of a Woman” is written by the hand of the post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh in the period of his early work, although the author himself at that time was already 33 years old. Despite considerable life experience and an inquisitive sharp look at objects and people, as an artist, the works of that segment had an understatement.

The presented picture clearly indicates a strange approach to the image and composition, the lack of artistic education and the sense of color of Vincent. The dark palette “Women” seems like a chaos of color spots. Too dark coloring and staging of the model plunged the work into darkness, which was present in the author’s works up to the so-called Parisian period of his biography.

The author’s inexperience and recognizable pictorial touch did not make the “Portrait” boring. Thanks to a certain technique of jerky writing and a variety of colors that can be discerned only from a close distance, the canvas is formed into a whole of small mosaics. Pigment feed from Van Gogh is oily, abundant and too bold. However, the work shouts with realism.

Post-impressionistic mood only slightly affected the canvas and manifested itself in multicolored colors. The image of the woman is interpreted by Vincent angularly, somewhere roughly and far-fetched. Its appearance is akin to the sharp male full-face. It seems that the author is just playing with oil, throwing a naughty viscous mass of palette knife, as a builder, building a wall of ocher, cadmium and kraplak. At the same time, the portrait gives a unique, but recognizable, technique of Van Gogh. Like many works, until 1887, the portrait of the unknown differs in general features without fine drawing and is devoid of smooth lines.

In addition to the age of the lady, which is far beyond forty, the strokes and dark palette “give” her ten years extra. Perhaps, the original did not like the old copy, but the thought crept in that the author wrote from memory or relying on his own imagination. After all, at the time of the creation of the portrait, the Drenten pastor forbade peasants to pose as an artist. Writing “Portrait of a woman” fell on the point of fracture of Vincent’s biography and creative search. The work, like the last sigh of the old manner and gloomy colors, closed the stage of throwing, loneliness, divorce and misunderstanding of his compositions, opening the way for light painting and the creative splash of Dutch Gog.

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