The changes that Vincent van Gogh's painting…
1888 CE
Van Gogh's "post-Impressionist" style has by the beginning of 1888 finally crystallized, resulting in such masterpieces as Portrait of Pére Tanguy (1887-88, Musée Rodin, Paris) and Self-Portrait in Front of an Easel (1888) as well as in some landscapes of the Parisian suburbs.
Van Gogh is aware that his approach to painting is individualistic, but he also realizes that some tasks are beyond the power of isolated individuals to accomplish.
He still hopes to form a separate Impressionist group with Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others whom he believes have similar aims to create a new, personally expressive art, but after two years, van Gogh is tired of city life, physically exhausted, and longing "to look at nature under a brighter sky."
His passion is now for "a full effect of color." As it now appears to him "almost impossible to work in Paris," he leaves on February 19 for Arles in Provence.
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Vincent van Gogh: Portrait of Père Tanguy (1887) oil on canvas; 92 cm (36.2 ″) x 75 cm (29.5 ″); Musée Rodin
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