Van Gogh revisited (18)

This is the 18th in a series of Vincent van Gogh’s works that is featured as part of the works on display at the exhibition titled “Van Gogh in Paris: a Dialogue with Modernism” at Seoul Arts Center. ― ED.

Vincent van Gogh acquired diverse new skills by means of trial-and-error during his two-year stay in Paris. He then moved to Arles in southern France in early 1888 and “A Crab on its Back,” one of his paintings at that time, is a result of those two crucial years of study in Paris.

The painting shows nothing is more beautiful than dynamic and rhythmically applied brushstrokes in his later oeuvre, which exerts a fascination of its own but at the same time represents a coarse field or cloud.

“A Crab on its Back” is a work that is rather difficult to date precisely.