Restaurant installed in the dining hall of the former hotel, the Caf\u00e9 des Hauteurs <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe central train station was built on the site of a ruined Palais d’Orsay. The station was designed so that it perfectly integrated into the elegant surroundings of the nearby Louvre and the Palace of the Legion of Honour (Palais de la L\u00e9gion d’honneur<\/em>). <\/p>\n\n\n\nThe museum’s gallery spaces and facilities are distributed throughout its three levels: the pavilion Amont, the glass walkway of the former station’s western pinion, the museum restaurant which is installed in the dining hall of the former hotel, the Caf\u00e9 des Hauteurs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can see Montmartre and the Palais Garnier from these windows, districts where some of the artists whose work is exhibited at the Museum once lived and worked <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Van Gogh Paintings at Musee d’Orsay Paris<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nIn addition to several Impressionists’ works Musee d’Orsay, Paris has a great collection of Vincent Van Gogh works. These post-impressionist works are some of my favorites. The Fran\u00e7oise Cachin Gallery<\/strong> at Musee d’Orsay displays the works of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Portrait of the Artist \u2013 1887 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nThe 1890s were characterized by an extraordinary profusion of creativity in the Parisian art world. With impressionism in the 1870s, Paris asserted itself as the capital of an independent form of art. As both a continuation of, and break from, this movement, a trend named \u2018post-impressionism\u2019 emerged at the end of the 1880s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Vincent Van Gogh arrived in Paris in 1886. He soon explored the expressive possibilities of color. Paul Gauguin and a new generation of painters like \u00c9mile Bernard, Paul S\u00e9rusier, Meijer de Haan also affirmed the strength of color, while pursuing a radical simplification of forms. Odilon Redon, the leading light of symbolism, placed dreams and suggestions at the heart of his art. (Adapted from the text at Musee Orsay, Paris<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\nHere are some of the Van Gogh paintings you don’t want to miss at the Musee d’Orsay<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Restaurant de la Sir\u00e8ne at Asni\u00e8res <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The woman of Arles (L’Arl\u00e9sienne \u2013 1888)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Eug\u00e8ne Boch (The Belgian Painter) \u2013 1888 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n The Church in Auvers-sur-Oise, View from the Chevet <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n La M\u00e9ridienne \u2013 1889 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Van Gogh’s Room in Arles \u2013 1888 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Portrait of Dr Gachet \u2013 1890 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Thatched Cottages at Cordeville, 1890 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n <\/figure>\n\n\n\n Portrait of Agostina Segatori, who was also a muse to Corot, G\u00e9r\u00f4me, and Manet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Vincent Van Gogh, Starry night Paintings and where you can find them now<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nVan Gogh was self-taught and produced more than 2,000 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches. All of which became in demand only after his death. He also wrote many letters, especially to his brother Theo, in which he worked out his thoughts about art. “Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that\u2019s the real way to learn to understand art better and better,<\/em>” he wrote in 1874. “Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see<\/em>.” All his painting including the famous Starry Night<\/em> shows Gogh\u2019s use of simplified forms, thick impasto, and boldly contrasting colors that have made the work so compelling and unique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-R\u00e9my, France <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIn April 1888, Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo: “I need a starry night with cypresses or maybe above a field of ripe wheat<\/em>.” In June, he confided to the painter Emile Bernard: “But when shall I ever paint the Starry Sky<\/em>, this painting that keeps haunting me” and, in September, in a letter to his sister, he evoked the same subject: “Often it seems to me night is even more richly coloured than day<\/em>“. During the same month of September, he finally realized his project that he obsessed over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Starry Night over the Rhone (Musee d’Orsay, Paris)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nWondering where Starry Night is currently on display?<\/strong> Van Gogh painted 3 versions of Starry Night. He first painted a corner of nocturnal sky in Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles<\/em> (located in at Rijksmuseum Kr\u00f6ller-Muller, Otterlo). Next came the Starry Night over the Rhone<\/em> which is housed at the Musee Orsay in Paris. In this version, he paints in pretty shades of blue: Prussian blue, ultramarine and cobalt along with a couple down at the bottom. The city gas lights glimmer and are reflected in the water while the stars sparkle in the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Starry Night<\/em> (New York, MoMA) <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nA few months later, just after being confined to a mental institution, Van Gogh painted another version of the same subject: Starry Night<\/em> (New York, MoMA), in which the violence of his troubled psyche is fully expressed. Trees are shaped like flames while the sky and stars whirl in a cosmic vision. <\/p>\n\n\n\nVan Gogh wrote of his experience to his brother Theo: “This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big<\/em>.” This morning star, or Venus, may be the large white star seen on the left of center in The Starry Night painting. The hamlet, on the other hand, is invented, and the church spire evokes van Gogh’s native land, the Netherlands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n