How Did This Grasshopper End Up Trapped In a Vincent van Gogh Painting?

The insect, which is barely visible to the naked eye, was probably dead by the time it landed on van Gogh's canvas.

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“Street scene in Montmartre (Impasse des Deux Frères and the Pepper Mill)” (1887), Vincent van Gogh

After spending more than a century in a private collection, one of Vincent van Gogh’s artworks has been shown to the public for the first time since the Dutch artist painted it in the spring of 1887.

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Vincent Willem van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ Painting Is Being Turned Into a 3D LEGO Set

The 3D build captures the Dutch artist's swirling skies with an assortment of bricks plates and curved parts. The set even features a Van Gogh mini figure with a paint brush, painting palette, easel, and a miniature Starry Night painting. 

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Vase with Chinese asters and gladioli (detail) 1886. Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh - Undergrowth (1889)

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Van Gogh’s Ugliest Masterpiece

Ask passersby to name a Vincent van Gogh painting off the top of their heads, and most will come up with works like The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, one of his self-portraits (probably with his ear bandaged), or maybe the one with the smoking skeleton David Sedaris used for a book cover.
 How many will mention 1888's The Night Café, an interior, van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo from Arles (the town in the south of France where he had come in search of Japan-like surroundings), "of the café where I have a room, by gas light, in the evening," the kind of place that never closes, accommodating the kind of "night prowlers" who "have no money to pay for a lodging, or are too drunk to be taken in"? Promising subject matter for a painter, one might think.
When Vincent wrote back to Theo after completing The Night Café, he described the painting "one of the ugliest I've done," but that doesn't necessarily mean he saw it as a failure, or indeed that we shouldn't see it as a masterpiece.
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Autumn Landscapes , Vincent van Gogh 

 

Born on this day, Vincent van Gogh

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