Arles is located in a region called Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, department of Bouches-du-Rhône in southern France. The visitor's center in Arles provides a walking tour map of ten reproductions … February 20, 1888 - May 8, 1889. His move from Paris to the Midi gave rise to bold experimentation in the use of color and to explorations of style and subject matter. After two years in Paris, he was tired of the bustle and demands of city life and longed for the sunshine and vibrant colours of the south. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 into a Dutch Reformed Church family in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. Van Gogh painted many scenes from … Vincent was a common name in the Van Gogh family: his grandfather, Vincent (1789–1… Arles Visitor Center. During his stay in Arles between February 1888 and May 1889, Vincent Van Gogh executed about 300 paintings and drawings. He experienced great productivity there before suffering from a mental breakdown. In Paris, Van Gogh would refine his evolving talents to incorporate a new world of colour … Vincent arrived in Arles on 20 February 1888. The places in the city where the artist set up his easel are marked with panels representing his paintings. Van Gogh in Arles, France. Vincent lived in Arles in the South of France for more than a year. Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth. This is a physically large, solid book filled with paintings of Vincent Van Gogh painted during his period of living in the south of France at Arles. This is a field of olive trees outside of the asylum. He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. It is about 32 kilometres (20 mi) southeast of Nîmes. As I learned in study, these paintings marked the beginning of his use of very bright colors to match the lighting in Arles. Oliveraie. There are lots of bright colors and lots of bright yellows. Van Gogh in Arles documents the first major exhibition devoted to the fifteen-month period in 1888–1889 that the Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh worked in the ancient Provençal town of Arles in the South of France.