Sybil: You could have had them both done by now if you hadn't spent the whole morning skulking in there listening to that racket.
Basil: Racket? That's Brahms! Brahms' Third Racket!
Posted on 01/14/2018 12:22:46 PM PST by mairdie
It's the art history/physics major in me, but the video is divided into chronological rough chunks: 1 - 1881-1887; 2 - 1888; 3 - 1889; 4 - 1890.
Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was one of the post-impressionists. The son of a minister and nephew of an art dealer, Vincent worked for his uncle in Paris. At first he was determined to follow his father's profession and became an evangelist to the poor, but he couldn't connect with the people he was trying to mentor. The bible in the still life in the first part was his memorial to his father. The woman in black with green background in the second part is his mother. Eventually Vincent turned to art, studying in London, Brussels and The Hague. You can see strong influences of other artists in his early work.
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Awesome!
Spectacular!!! If I could paint I would want to use colors just as Vincent Van Gogh did.
You just made four days of work worthwhile! Many thanks.
TRY!!!!!!!!!!
Experiment. Find colors that drive you out of your mind and put them together in ways that chill your back.
Back when Vincent was painting, all the artists did the grunt work to know their anatomy before they modified it in their own work. We’re lazier. Today we accept colors without representation, so the world is wide open.
And thank you. Sincerely.
Stunning. His amazing use of color, technique and choice of subjects makes him my favorite. I even named one of my dogs Vincent.
Thanks so much.
You’re most welcome. Was there a reason that you connected the pup to the painter? I’m trying to imagine what a dog would look like that I’d name Vincent - other than being strong like the name. His earlier ochre periods would be easier, but the later periods... A blue merle?
I usually named mine for TV show characters, like Ilya and Mr Waverly, and once for a baby werewolf in one of my movie scripts, Here Henry! I was looking for a call name that was soft on the ear in the days before I discovered that ALL my ancestors seemed to be named Henry. One of mother’s famous coincidences she adored finding.
You are SO funny!
I’m planning on Toulouse next time and have the Can-Can music but absolutely floored on how to show his earlier work. I fear I’m not into most modern pieces. I loved the Brahms because it hearkened back to the Haydn. Suggestions???
Thank you....on my 4th day in bed with the flu....this was a nice interlude.
Van Gogh’s early works were rather dark. Look up the Potato Eaters. His brother told him he needed to spice it up a bit in order to sell his work.
Van Gogh was a modern art collecter’s dream. He was in poor health, drank too much, suffered from mental illness, produced a couple of years of quality work, then shot himself to death.
He had very little professional success and died thinking himself a failure.
Oh, goodness, I am so very sorry. Are you feeling any better?
His life was certainly sad. The Dr Who episode about people who wanted his life to improve, but couldn’t help him had a grain to it. It’s very difficult to help someone with mental problems and, if he was awkward in interactions with people, it wouldn’t encourage people to help him. Incredibly sad. The scene of them letting him know that his work was beloved today was the most desperate wish fulfillment for people who loved his art.
Unfortunately...no.
I hope you can find more to distract yourself. It’s horrible to feel badly. Get Well Soon!
I’ve never understood the worship of van Gogh. I think his contemporaries were right in thinking he had very little talent. The excuse people use—”I love the colors!”—could just as easily be applied to the finger-painting of a three-year-old. No, a night sky does not look like that, unless you’re having a psychotic break. Loving van Gogh seems to be obligatory in middle-class society, something to which one has to pay lip service lest one be thought uncultured and ignorant. It seems like the same fraud which requires everyone to say that 20th-century modernist and postmodernist artists are so brilliant and have something to say that’s worthy of respect.
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