Seascape at Saintes Maries

Post-Impressionism

The story

June 1888. Van Gogh is living in the Yellow House in Arles. Projects lined up, spirit balanced, mind steady. One of the good stretches. So he answers the call of the sea.

Never seen the Mediterranean. Twenty miles by stagecoach, and there it was. Blue sky. Blue sea by day, and a blue starry night. He had a mission: master the blue. And a project forming in his head: paint the night. A year later, Starry Night. It all started here.

Movement
Post-Impressionism
Artist
Vincent van Gogh

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