Factories at Clichy, Vincent van Gogh (1887)
Vincent van Gogh depicted an expanse of factories billowing smoke into the air in the gritty, industrial suburb of Clichy, northwest of Paris. The scene is divided into three horizontal bands of fields, factories, and sky, while in the middle distance, two tiny figures—perhaps lovers—are visible in the field. Van Gogh’s ordered system of brushwork reflects his awareness of the recent pointillist experiments of French painter Georges Seurat.
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