What object lies on the chair in the famous painting by Van Gogh that is reflected in the title of the painting? What object is lying on the chair in Van Gogh's famous painting? Van Gogh's painting of a chair with a pipe.
Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh painted a painting in 1888 called Van Gogh's Chair. It is no coincidence that the artist placed his chair in the center of the composition, because this piece of furniture is a symbol of support and relaxation for every person, although we do not always think about it. The impetus for painting the canvas was Van Gogh’s impression of Gauguin’s paintings, with whom he was still friends at that time. Gauguin has a whole series of paintings where chairs are empty. An empty chair represented death for Van Gogh, so he decided to place his own pipe and pouch of tobacco on it in his painting. This item is always associated with a living person; without its owner it is lifeless.
The painting has a name, but what? It turns out that it is enough to look at information on this matter on the Internet to understand what the correct answer to the question is. You need to answer: tube. This is the correct answer. You just need a little luck and erudition.
To answer this question correctly, just look at the picture of this chair and the answer will be visible. There is a PIPE on the chair, and in addition to the pipe on the chair there is also a small bag intended for tobacco.
The correct answer will be the words - A TUBE!
Questions about art cause quite a lot of problems; it is clear that very often no attention is paid to it. But in our age, finding the right picture is not so difficult.
Therefore, PIPE. Although Van Gogh could have anything, he had a special way of thinking.
Vincent van Gogh had many remarkable paintings, one such painting of his depicts a chair on which lies nothing more than a smoking pipe. The painting itself is called Van Gogh's Chair. Correct answer: a tube.
Apparently, the question refers to a painting by Vincent Van Gogh called Paul Gauguin's Chair, in which we can see an empty chair, but on it lies a pipe and a bag of tobacco. It follows that the second answer option is suitable for us and this will be the answer - A tube. In the picture presented, everything is clearly visible.
In a painting by a famous artist called Van Gogh's Chair there is a pipe.
Answer: a tube.
What is the point of depicting an ordinary chair? For the artist-thinker it is philosophical: if the chair were empty, for Van Gogh it would be a symbol of death: no one would sit on this comfortable and reliable piece of furniture. But there is a pipe on the chair, which means the owner just went away for a while and will return soon.
First you need to understand which Van Gogh painting we are talking about, although there is a hint in the question, it mentions a chair. The very name of the painting is Van Gogh's Chair, there are really few objects depicted on it, the chair is in the foreground, and on it is the Pipe, this is the answer.
The question is quite simple if you see the picture itself. In extreme cases, its detailed description is quite suitable, when art critics are looking for the hidden meaning of what is depicted on Van Gogh’s canvas and sometimes speculate on what the artist himself may not have had in mind when he created it.
In our case, the correct answer will be the second one - A TUBE.
Connoisseurs of the work of the famous Dutch painter, post-impressionist artist Vincent Van Gogh, will probably remember his canvas called Van Gogh's Chair - there are very few objects in the painting, so it will not be difficult to give the correct answer to this quiz question - a smoking area is clearly visible on the chair A tube.
In order to answer this question, let us recall the painting itself by the famous artist Van Gogh. On a chair that stands in the middle of the room lies an ordinary pipe.
True, you need to turn on your imagination to understand that this is exactly it.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) was prompted to paint his painting Van Gogh's Chair (1888) by Luke Fields' drawing The Empty Chair (1870?)
So for the artist, an empty chair began to be associated only with death. Even in his painting, the artist did not depict his own chair as empty, he placed it in the center of the picture, thereby saying that the one who was sitting in it simply left (perhaps he died), but left some kind of his mark, leaving at least a pipe and a pouch of tobacco.
Empty Chair Sir Samuel Luke Fields. (1844-1927). Paper, watercolor. 1870?
Van Gogh created the painting “Vincent’s Chair with Pipe” in addition to the previously painted “Gauguin’s Chair”. In 1888, Paul Gauguin visited him in Arles. They were friends, and Van Gogh painted these still lifes as a kind of personification of their characters.
The painting shows a chair standing on the floor of a room. But this is not just an interior detail. Looking at it, the viewer immediately begins to think about who the chair belongs to and why it is painted that way.
An old wicker seat that has lost its appearance over many years of use. Somewhat knocked together legs, which, it would seem, are about to come apart. The feeling of unsteadiness and instability is enhanced by the flat image of the floor, which makes it appear almost vertical. While painting the parquet floor, the artist seemed to have forgotten about perspective, and it seemed as if the chair was about to slide down. The old age and “tiredness” of the furnishings and objects is emphasized by the muted color scheme and dull bluish contours of the details.
The artist depicted a pipe on the seat, indicating that someone had recently sat on the chair. Traces of a person's presence remain, but the person himself is no longer there. In one of his letters, Van Gogh described his condition, which caused his separation from his father. Then the sight of the empty chair where his father had been sitting half an hour ago upset Vincent almost to tears. The exact same feeling of loneliness and devastation is present in this picture.
So, today is Saturday, May 6, 2017, and we traditionally offer you answers to the quiz in the “Question and Answer” format. We encounter questions ranging from the simplest to the most complex. The quiz is very interesting and quite popular, we are simply helping you test your knowledge and make sure that you have chosen the correct answer out of the four proposed. And we have another question in the quiz - What object lies on the chair in the famous painting by Van Gogh that is reflected in the title of the painting?
- Hat
- A tube
- Palette
The correct answer is B - TUBE
Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh painted a painting in 1888 called “Van Gogh's Chair.” It is no coincidence that the artist placed his chair in the center of the composition, because this piece of furniture is a symbol of support and relaxation for every person, although we do not always think about it. The impetus for painting the canvas was Van Gogh’s impression of Gauguin’s paintings, with whom he was still friends at that time. Gauguin has a whole series of paintings where chairs are empty. An empty chair represented death for Van Gogh, so he decided to place his own pipe and pouch of tobacco on it in his painting. This item is always associated with a living person; without its owner it is lifeless.
Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh chair. 1888, oil on canvas, 91.8 x 73. London National Gallery. 
Vincent van Gogh. Armchair by Paul Gauguin. 1888, 90.5 X 72.5 cm, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Either still life, or the interior... In these paintings I imagined a chair and an armchair - as the main character of the picture - in the center of space, almost in the center of the universe.
« A chair is the most necessary, the most important (both functionally and figuratively) piece of furniture, the most homely item, the most interior-forming"?. We can add that a chair is the most “human-shaped” piece of furniture, because all parts of the human body use the details of this object. A chair provides a person with support and convenience, and although there are a great many design options for this piece of furniture (chair, stool), all the same, the basis of its design remains unchanged: legs, seat, back (within which one person usually fits) - corresponding to the same parts of the body. In the context of I. Danilova’s reflections on the totemization and mythologization of the chair in the art of the 20th century, when this type of furniture becomes, as it were, a symbolic substitute for a person. But, as we see, a similar process began even earlier, namely in still life van Gogh at the end of the 19th century.
But here the symbolism is not socio-cultural, but personal, looking through the prism of the history of the creation of these pairs still lifes. In December 1882, Vincent wrote to his brother that his attention had been drawn to Luke Fields’s drawing “The Empty Chair.” Luke Fields, illustrator of Dickens's works, entered his room on the day of the writer's death and saw his empty chair there. This was the story of this drawing. The drawing made a great impression on Vincent. “Oh, these empty chairs! - he exclaims sadly. “There are already a lot of them, and there will be even more: sooner or later, in the place of Herkomer, Luke Fields... etc. there will only be empty chairs left.”
Six years later, in December 1888, Vincent apparently remembered this drawing again and created the Gauguin Chair and Van Gogh Chair. Thus, although the content of these works is different from Fields’s drawing, it is easy to notice that the very idea of creating a capacious artistic image through the image of a chair, this “empty place,” came from a drawing Vincent saw six years ago. Vincent's letter to Aurier sheds further light on the intention of Gauguin's Chair: "A few days before we parted and illness forced me to go to hospital, I tried to write" its an empty place».
A chair as a place for a person. The inanimate as a symbol of the living, but gone. A trace left in the material world...
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- Danilova I.E. The fate of the painting in European painting. St. Petersburg, 2005, p. 256
- Van Gogh. Letters. M.-L., Art, 1966
Painting by artist Vincent Van Gogh “Paul Gauguin's Chair (Gauguin's Chair)”
Year of creation: 1888
Canvas, oil.
Original size: 90.5 x 72.5 cm.
Vincent Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Description of the picture: “Gauguin’s Chair” (Dutch: De stoel van Gauguin) is a painting by the famous Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh. It was painted in November 1888 in Arles. The famous French artist Paul Gauguin, who was a close friend and colleague of Van Gogh, arrived in Arles at the end of October 1888. Vincent was very glad to see him. For approximately two months the artists lived in a house on Rue Lamartine (see The Yellow House). Van Gogh painted this painting at the end of November 1888. Van Gogh wanted to show that it is precisely such empty chairs that often serve as personifications of the owners. Around the same time, he also painted “Vincent’s Chair with a Pipe,” which is considered a complement to the painting “Gauguin’s Chair.” This painting is in the National Gallery in London. Symbolically, Van Gogh wanted to convey through these paintings how different the characters were of the two artists.
In these paintings, Vincent Van Gogh presented a chair and an armchair - as the main character of the painting - in the center of space, almost in the center of the universe. A chair as a place for a person. The inanimate as a symbol of the living, but gone. A trace left in the material world... "Vincent Van Gogh's Chair" with an extinguished pipe and "Gauguin's Chair" with a funerary candlestick. “I tried to depict a place where he is not,” Van Gogh writes to Albert Aurier about “Gauguin’s Chair.” Both paintings depict the motif of absence, clearly reflecting the life situation in which Van Gogh found himself. All Van Gogh’s ideas and dreams, which he had pinned on his collaboration with Gauguin, collapsed. He lost his only friend. Van Gogh's chair is made of inexpensive wood, containing a pipe and a small tobacco pouch, its modesty contrasting with Gauguin's elaborate chair, with a candle and a book on the seat, symbolically signifying ambition and dedication to knowledge. Van Gogh’s chair, designed in a coloristic ratio of purple and yellow, seems to radiate, just as in the painting “The Yellow House,” daylight and hope.
Either a still life, or an interior... In these paintings, van Gogh presented a chair and an armchair - as the main character of the painting - in the center of space, almost in the center of the universe. “A chair is the most necessary, the most important (both functionally and figuratively) piece of furniture, the most homely item, the most interior-forming”? It can be added that a chair is the most “human-shaped” piece of furniture, because all parts of the human body involve the details of this object. A chair provides a person with support and convenience, and although there are a great many design options for this piece of furniture (chair, stool), all the same, the basis of its design remains unchanged: legs, seat, back (within which one person usually fits) - corresponding to the same parts of the body. In the context of I. Danilova’s reflections on the totemization and mythologization of the chair in the art of the 20th century, when this type of furniture becomes, as it were, a symbolic substitute for a person. But, as we see, a similar process began even earlier, namely in van Gogh’s still life at the end of the 19th century.
But here the symbolism is not socio-cultural, but personal, looking through the prism of the history of the creation of these paired still lifes. In December 1882, Vincent wrote to his brother that his attention had been drawn to Luke Fields’s drawing “The Empty Chair.” Luke Fields, illustrator of Dickens's works, entered his room on the day of the writer's death and saw his empty chair there. This was the story of this drawing. The drawing made a great impression on Vincent. “Oh, these empty chairs! - he exclaims sadly. “There are already a lot of them, and there will be even more: sooner or later, in the place of Herkomer, Luke Fields... etc. there will only be empty chairs left.”
Six years later, in December 1888, Vincent apparently remembered this drawing again and created the Gauguin Chair and Van Gogh Chair. Thus, although the content of these works is different from Fields’s drawing, it is easy to notice that the very idea of creating a capacious artistic image through the image of a chair, this “empty place,” came from a drawing Vincent saw six years ago. Vincent’s letter to Aurier sheds further light on the intention of Gauguin’s Chair: “A few days before we parted and illness forced me to go to hospital, I tried to paint “his empty place.” A chair as a place for a person. The inanimate as a symbol of the living, but gone. A trace left in the material world...
