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During the spring of 1887, Vincent van Gogh was living in Paris and
staying with his friend and fellow artist Emile Bernard. In addition to
Bernard, Van Gogh was exposed to the emerging techniques of other
artists in the community in Paris.
The influences of Impressionism and
Pointillism are evident in his work from this time. At the time, Van
Gogh was painting en plein air, painting outdoors, and because
he was staying in the suburbs just north of Paris in Asnières, the
scenery that Van Gogh was painting on the banks of the Seine was more
like the countryside rather than the hustle and bustle of the more
metropolitan areas. This gave way to brighter and more colorful
paintings for Van Gogh.
While Van Gogh painted several landscapes during this time, one of
the popular subjects that Van Gogh painted was a series of different
paintings of the park at Asnières. View some of these paintings below:
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