van gogh crab back Dimensions (inches):15 x 21" Pieter Paul Rubens)

Pieter Paul Rubens)

Lengthening the hours waiting for ephemeral customers

from the viewer's side is shadow and from the background

and the dynamic interaction between shapes and colors

is one of the masterpieces of the Viennese Modernist movement

van gogh crab back Dimensions (inches):15 x 21" Pieter Paul Rubens)Oil painting titled "A Crab on its Back", painted in 1888 by Vincent van Gogh. The artist avoided going out in the open when the weather was very cold and rainy; on one of those days, Vincent conceived this work. Driven by the desire to imitate figures he had seen in Japanese art lithographs (an artistic influence that in the West is called "Japonism"), he went further. He wanted to show how the light was reflected on the shell; the result is a work