THE DRAWBRIDGE
By VINCENT VAN GOGH
"THE DRAWBRIDGE" (19.5"/25.4"inches) oil on canvas, Painted by VINCENT VAN GOGH in April 1888 (Arles). Now it is in Wallraf- Richartz Museum, Cologne.
A DELICATE poetic vision that suggests the art of the Far East: dominant sky & water, few objects, little tension & crossing of forms, an approach to a peaceful reverie.A distant cloud is the most solid, tangible object.
Aligned in a horizontal band along the horizon is a file of varied objects of an immaterial quality, each one delightful to the eye: houses, blue as the sky, slender cypresses of delicate stroke, an enchanting miniature horse & carriage & rider, the drawbridge, slender and filmy like a spider's web,& at the extreme right, light blue houses with red striped rooftops permeated by the light.
What a surprise is the inner bluish wall of the stone bridge, transparent like the water below, itself the bridge between the water & the sky.
VINCENT VAN GOGH PAINTINGS