7. Vincent van Gogh usually didn’t spend a lot of time completing a painting. That’s the main reason why he managed to produce over 900 paintings and numerous drawings during his decade-long career. He remarkably spent 3 full nights working on The Night Café, staying up all night and sleeping during the day.

Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted film. We painted over 65,000 frames on over 1,000 canvases. We shot the film with actors, and literally painted over it frame by frame. This is a very laborious and time-consuming process. It has taken us 4 years to develop the technique, and it took us over 2 years with a team of over 100

That surely is the case with Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Take the version in London’s National Gallery that the Dutch artist painted in Arles in the South of France in August 1888. Fifteen

Harvest at La Crau was one of many paintings that Van Gogh made of the countryside surrounding Arles, and reflects his experiments with flat areas of colour and bold outlines. He differentiated his brushstrokes, seen here in the spiky cut cornfield contrasted against the flat area of standing corn, and was applying his paint in great thick

He created 200 paintings and over 100 drawings inspired by the idyllic landscape, local people, and charming towns. Among the many iconic works that emerged from this year in Arles was the masterpiece, Café Terrace at Night. Completed in September 1888, this blue-and-yellow canvas depicts a snapshot of a street in Arles, situated by the Place

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