Vincent van Gogh's Crab on its Back Art Print

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Vincent van Gogh's Crab on its Back, circa 1888.

Van Gogh took the idea of painting a crab from Japanese prints. He had found the same subject there. Vincent and his brother Theo collected colorful Japanese woodcuts.

Here, Van Gogh painted the crab in bright shades of red against a green background. He was experimenting with what he called 'the laws of colour' described by the French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863). According to this theory, colors like red and green form a pair. They are known as complementary because, when placed side by side, they both have a stronger effect. Van Gogh was a great admirer of Delacroix and had learned about his color theory from books by Charles Blanc.

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