Yesterday we visited The Courtauld Gallery in London, UK where we looked at a great collection of art pieces. The 3rd floor was focusing on Impressionism and had an amazing collection of paintings from: Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

One of our favourites from the collection was the painting from Boudin.

I can highly recommend visiting the gallery if you are in London. (It's a pay to play gallery, but it's worth it once you ticked off all the free ones)

One of my few acrylic landscape paintings. I was quite pleased with how this one turned out.

I recently watched a documentary about Vincent van Gogh that left me thinking about his life, his artistic choices, and how much his personal struggles influence the way we interpret his paintings today.

It made me wonder how differently we might view his work if we separated the art itself from the tragic story of the artist.

I'd be interested to hear what people in this community think. Do you believe Van Gogh's paintings are often appreciated on their own artistic merits, or has his life story become inseparable from his reputation?

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