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Van Gogh Tote Bag - Met Museum - Self Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887)

$40.00

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About Van Gogh Tote Bag - Met Museum - Self Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887)

The post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh painted his work Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887) and it is hosted at Metropolitan Museum of Art‘s collection. Scholars observed from his divisionist brushstrokes the strong influence from Pointillists such as Georges Seurat, but instead of using dots Van Gogh notoriously employed dashes. From the influence of French Impressionists artist, Van Gogh also adopted the use of strong complementary colors, such as the prevalence in the use of oranges and blues. As a result, Van Gogh’s masterful use of complementary color harmonies achieves a visual aesthetically pleasing composition where the juxtaposition of colors intensifies the others surrounding it. While living in Paris, Van Gogh created more than 20 self-portraits. Lacking funds, he bought a mirror and used himself as a subject in order to pursue the art of figure painting without having to pay a model. This unique Van Gogh Tote Bag is the perfect size to carry your everyday essentials wherever you go.

Technical Specifications

  • Dimensions: 6 1/2”H x 9 1/2”W
  • Weight: 0.5 lbs
  • Material: 100% Canvas.
  • Original: Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), Self Portrait with a Straw Hat (1887), Oil on Canvas. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Van Gogh

Van Gogh

Van Gogh was a master painter who strongly influenced the abstract and Neo-expressionist who came after him. Originating from the Netherlands, he discovered Impressionist art while living in Paris and started to use the color and light. His work is well known for its beauty, emotion, and color, as well as its interesting viewpoints of mundane objects. Despite being extremely poor and generally unknown throughout his lifetime, Van Gogh is now one of the greatest Dutch painters.  He lived a life with emotional tension and madness, and he created his finest piece, Starry Night, inside an institution. Although the specter of mental illness haunted him throughout his adult life and created a habit of inflicting self-harm (such as the infamous severed ear), his work remained a testament to his genius. Van Gogh died at the age of only 37, due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His brother Theo would go on to distribute his work and cultivate his popularity.

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