I met Van Gogh at the museum exhibition

THE LANGLOIS BRIDGE AT ARLES

The artist that made this painting was Van Gogh during his stay in Arlés in 1888. In this period of his life he was influenced by oriental art and we can see this in the colors used to make the painting.

In the background there are just the sky, the hill and two trees but if we look closer we can see the rive and the drawbridge that was built in the first half of 19th century to expaand the network of canals, on it there is a carriage driven by an horse. the painting seems divided by the drawbridge because it's collocated in the middle. On right there's a little part of a green hill, on the opposite side we can see a brown hill with some women. In the middle, between the two hills, there's the rive. The women are washing clothes in the share of the rive and near them there's an abandoned boat, in fact there's some water in it. We can think that when Van Gogh painted the Langlois bridge at Arlés he was behind a bush, because respecting the perspective the first thing that he could see was the bush, in fact there are some branches and leaves.

Goodbye, I hope that you can enjoy the holidays, see you soon.

Silvia Canalella III H

In Langlois’s bridge a village is represented divided by a river with a stone bridge. On the bridge there is a woman dressed in black with an umbrella and a cart. On the right side of the picture there is a meadow (river bank) and a white house with a red roof and a red porch and we can also see a part of a path. The grass has two different colors namely green near the river and yellow near the path. On the left side there are two trees , a small path a fisherman who is wearing a red and white jacket a meadow (river bank) and in the background there is a white building and a cloud above it. The river like the sky is very calm and also we can see the reflection of the trees and the bridge in the water. The bridge i salso casting a shadow on the water. I choose this painting becouse it is more calm quiet than most of Van Gogh paintings. For example the sky here is clear and peaceful while in the other paintings the sky is wild. Jacopo Alfano