October 24 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
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More about Vincent van Gogh and Cypresses
In Vincent’s letter to Theo, which is letter 596 in “The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh” Volume III, Vincent talks of sending Theo “Two studies of cypresses of that difficult bottle-green hue”… and also, later in the same letter, Vincent says “Only I have no news to tell you, for the days are all the same, I have no ideas, except to think that a field of wheat or a cypress is well worth the trouble of looking at close up, and so on.” Further down in the same letter, Vincent writes: “I think that of the two canvases of cypresses, the one I am making this sketch of will be the best. The trees in it are very big and massive. The foreground, very low with brambles and brushwood. Behind some violet hills, a green and pink sky with a crescent moon. The foreground especially is painted very thick, clumps of brambles with touches of yellow, violet and green.”
Below is a copy of letter 596, with the drawing Vincent included in it, and one of the Paintings Vincent was referring to in this letter, again taken from Vincent Van Gogh — The Complete Works on CDRom.
October 24 2006 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Facts from the back of the Vincent van Gogh action figure package
Well, I scanned the back of my Vincent van Gogh action figure… It doesn’t look right to try to put in on here, so you can either click to view it bigger:), or I’ll put it on here in pieces. There is quite a bit of interesting Vincent van Gogh information on there. I could type it all out, but sometimes it is better to see things visually…
October 18 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
More info on Vincent Van Gogh’s "Starry Night"
Vincent’s “Starry Night” from Vincent van Gogh — The Complete Works CDrom done in Pen
This is an interesting bit of information taken from Vincent Van Gogh — The Complete Works on CDRom concerning Vincent’s “Starry Night” painting:
“Starry Night” is generally considered to be Vincent van Gogh’s most famous work. Painted while Van Gogh was voluntarily confined in the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum in Saint-Rémy, France, the work depicts a small village nestled beneath rolling hills and a turbulent night sky. The village is atypical of communities in the south of France where the work was executed. The houses and particularly the church spire are more representative of the small Dutch villages where Van Gogh grew up, suggesting that his thoughts had turned to his early years during his stay in the asylum.
October 12 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
The meaning of Don McLean’s Starry Starry Night — Continued…
Okay….. and back to ‘Starry Starry Night’ the song by Don McLean…. The song starts out:
“Starry Starry Night, Paint your palette blue and grey”…. This is taken from Vincent’s painting “starry night”.
While the above picture is very small depiction of Vincent’s Starry Night, you can see a larger version here. This painting is mesmerizing. Vincent painted with a style called Impressionism. Impressionism is a style of painting where an artist would blend the paint with strokes on the canvas, instead of on the palette. Vincent, though, unlike other Impressionism painters, is more known for something called Expressionism, because most Impressionists painted without emotion in their paintings, and Vincent’s paintings are filled with emotion and deep seeded meanings.
Most of Vincent’s paintings were actually painted at the actual place he was painting. ‘Starry Night’ on the other hand, was painted while Vincent lived in a sanitarium — all from his memory of this particular scenery…. This painting can be interpreted in so many different ways, especially considering he painted this in the sanitarium. What could have been going through his mind when he created this masterpiece?……. What did each detail mean? The violent swirling sky and the bright blaring moon and stars…. so much brighter than the tiny lights in each of the town’s houses below…. and the church so dark…. yet the artist’s position behind the huge dark…is it a shrub or bush? Was Vincent feeling detached from society? More on all this in the future….. But one can listen to Don McLean’s ‘Starry Starry Night’ and stare at Vincent’s ‘Starry Night’ for hours and ponder such things…..
October 12 2006 | Uncategorized | No Comments »
