Double-square painting

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A double-square painting is a painting made on uncommonly large

Puvis de Chavannes,[2] and Ivon Hitchens
.

Description

In a double-square painting, one dimension of the canvas is twice the size of the other, so that the canvas is the shape of two adjoining squares. The overall effect of this is stability, and the compositional challenge is to avoid monotony.[further explanation needed]

Use

Prior to Van Gogh, artists such as Charles-François Daubigny and Puvis de Chavannes[2] had used canvases of similar proportions, and Van Gogh was aware of this.

Van Gogh's Double-square canvases

Mademoiselle Gachet at the Piano, 1890, Kunstmuseum Basel

standard sizes: the 50 cm leg from a size 12 and the 100 cm leg of a size 40 stretcher. The result was a double-square of 50 cm × 100 cm (20 in × 39 in), and from this size, easily the square could be derived by using two 50 cm legs. His choice of this size points into another direction from previous artists; his double-squares can easily be combined with size 30 canvases to more elaborated décorations,[further explanation needed
] and his squares extend these possibilities.

Subsequent uses of the dimensions

Ivon Hitchens worked primarily in double-squares at certain periods in his career.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b These terms were coined by Ronald Pickvance, one of the leading experts in Van Gogh-research.[need quotation to verify]
  2. ^ a b Hammacher, A. M. The Ten Creative Years of Vincent van Gogh, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1968. page 175

References

  • Pickvance, Ronald:
  • Zemel, Carol:
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