langlois bridge with washerwomen vincent van gogh

langlois bridge with washerwomen vincent van goghThis post impressionist painting depicts a peaceful and charming scene of the Pont Langlois, a drawbridge in Arles, Provence, with washerwomen going about their daily chores by the water. Van Gogh uses bright colours and expressive strokes to depict the details of the landscape and rural life. The bridge, the washerwomen and their colourful clothes are emphasised by the contrast between the warm colours and the blue and green shades of the river and

Vincent Van Gogh painted this work in the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

is striking

View of the Quai du Louvre is a post-impressionist work by the French artist Robert Delaunay

The composition is built up from the middle and the shapes fade towards the edges

This small painting from August Macke's studio reflects the artist's quest for form in the early 1910s

This style of painting can be found in several of his works

In this abstract work

formal stylization and absence of human presence

the good savage

Signac became one of its most illustrious representatives

The forest becomes an imperceptible and disquieting force that overflows the picture and only stops at the border of the petrol station: a symbol of industrialisation

with a perfect harmony between the different elements of the landscape