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Artwork · 1890 · Flower painting

Almond Blossoms

Vincent van Gogh
1890 · Oil on Canvas
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
★ 7.2 editorial score

Branches of white almond blossom spread across a clear turquoise-blue sky, the flowering boughs rendered with the bold cropping and flat elegance of the Japanese prints Van Gogh loved. He painted it as a gift to celebrate the birth of his brother Theo's son, named Vincent after him - a symbol of new life and hope. Now in the Van Gogh Museum, Almond Blossoms is among his most tender and joyful works, free of turmoil, the early spring blossom held up against the sky as a fresh, hopeful emblem of beginnings.

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Flowers

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Quote · 1893

“There is nothing in which deduction is so necessary as in religion. It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner. Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

Arthur Conan Doyle