In Landscape at Auvers in the Rain, how is the Influences of the Development elucidated?
For Landscape at Auvers in the Rain, van Gogh drew inspiration from both French and Japanese art, creating a distinctly personal style. Originally a "peasant painter" who emulated the Dutch greats, van Gogh shifted from dark, sombre hues to embracing the vibrant colours of the Post-Impressionist movement. Once he moved to France, van Gogh drew inspiration from the works of innovators such as Monet, Pissarro, and Seurat, and began to experiment with brushstroke and colour, emulating the Impressionist and Pointillist styles in his paintings. Importantly, van Gogh was heavily influenced by his fellow Post-Impressionist artist Gauguin, with whom he connected over their shared "submission of nature to the expression of emotion in their works". Entering his Auvers period, van Gogh, due to his lack of self-confidence and faltering faith in artistic innovation, also sought inspiration from the older generation of French artists such as Delacroix and Daubigny. In particular, his choice of the double-square format was inspired by Daubigny, "who had a strong predilection for canvases that were twice as wide as they were high, ideal for picturing sweeping landscapes". Due to Theo's extensive collection of Japanese art, Vincent was also highly influenced by art from Japan and the Japonisme movement. In Landscape at Auvers in the Rain, van Gogh uses dark, diagonal strokes to represent rain, a technique directly influenced by the woodcut Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake by the Japanese artist Hiroshige, which he copied for training in 1887. Through his varied sources of inspiration, van Gogh "wanted somehow to combine past and present, North and South, Rembrandt and Delacroix, Europe and the Far East".
Seurat Japonisme Delacroix F Hiroshige Monet Pissarro Impressionist Pointillist Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge and Atake Daubigny Post-Impressionist Gauguin