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| Prompt: "If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Willem Van Gogh What is Van Gogh trying to tell us and what do you think of his paintings? ------- I believe what Van Gogh is saying to us is: "You don't have to go with the flow of the current ways or the common appreciation of anything. Do your own thing and let the chips fall where they may." This advice, I think, does well by us writers, also.  Taking his own advice, then, Van Gogh became a missionary of some sort and was able to transform the western art. He could do this by introducing an appreciation of different, or rather, abstract ways of looking at things. In fact, he must have mixed dreams with reality and that is why what came out of his brushes has a dreamlike, mystical quality. In his paintings, his straight lines become wavy, his sun, or his sunflowers give the impression of they are in action and turning, as his brushwork is unbelievably expressive. The paint is also thicker while the colors intensify. I am guessing, he often squeezed the paint directly onto the canvas right from the tube . Above all, I think he must have had some kind of a love affair with nature itself. That may be why his appreciation of nature is carried into the views of the Parisian suburbs and city life. In the same vein, since he probably felt that he himself was part of nature, too, he painted many portraits of himself. Those portraits in their totality have impressed me greatly, partly because I was intrigued by his life and delicate psyche. As such, his last self-portraits show the restlessness in him that did him in at the end. Today, without Van Gogh, modern art would have looked very different. This may be because he gave something from inside himself to his art with the symbolism of his forms, the intensity of his colors, and his very expressive brushwork. Most importantly, to us and to the art world, Vincent Van Gogh gave himself. |
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