The Factory by Vincent Van Gogh Bandits PFC Leslie V

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Van Gogh wrote: "Gauguin was telling me the other day—that he’d seen a painting by Claude Monet of sunflowers in a large Japanese vase

dominated by the angular

who paid the ultimate sacrifice

' With his own countrymen indifferent to their condition

The Factory by Vincent Van Gogh Bandits PFC Leslie VGicle Reproduction On Canvas Or Paper In the late nineteenth century, the French landscape was becoming increasingly marked by signs of industry. Van Gogh depicts a glass factory in Asnires, a suburb northwest of Paris where the artist painted frequently in the summer of 1887. The round objects stacked along the sides of the pathway are balls of glass awaiting melting inside the buildings. They would have been formed into lantern globes for gas