Portrait of Dr. Gachet is a painting which painted by Vincent Van Gogh. In this paiting, there are flowers, a table and a man. Van Gogh painted this painted in front of the Dr. Gachet. There is a sign in this painting. The flowers is a signifier in this painting because this flower is digitalis which is used to treat heart disease. It signified the man is a doctor, and the sign is aribitrary. The doctor looks comfortable in this painting and he is sitting cross the diagonal, which make him filled the whole painting. The colours in this paiting make the panting have contract, especially the yellow table compare with the blue which almost all over the painting. The bending lines, the blue walls and his blue clothes make the expression in his face more depression and critical. The right hand of him is used to support his hand and the sadness from his eyes also make him more depression.
The contract and the exprssion in this man's face will make viwers easy to have the emotion which Vincent Van Gogh want to show from the painting.
Because the flower is used as a treatment for heart disease it has a natural relationship with healing and medicine and it is an iconic signifier in this case.
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