Seascape near Saintes-Maries (1888), A Painting by Van Gogh,..More

Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer' (1888) : During his stay in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh made a trip to Saintes-Maries, a small Mediterranean fishing village in the South of France. Van Gogh did two versions of the painting Seascape at Saintes-Maries. In a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh talked about how colours in the Mediterranean change. "It wasn�t even blue, it was somewhere between green and violet. Saintes-Maries wasn�t happy or sad, it was just beautiful and that is what the artist wanted to capture." he wrote further. The reason why Van Gogh�s seascapes are so important is because they are so few, and they really show the true beauty of the Mediterranean Sea. *Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) : Van Gogh is a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most known and powerful figures within the history of Western art.�His paintings embrace landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits; defined by vibrant colors and dramatic, impulsive and communication technique that contributed to the foundations of recent art. After suicide, he earned widespread vital, commercial and widespread success over the following decades, and he's remembered as vital however tragic painter.�Today, Van Gogh's works are among the world's costliest paintings ever sold-out, and his inheritance is worthy by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum�in Amsterdam.