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He really was brilliant.
Sketch of Three Cicadas - Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 14 or 15 July 1889, pen and ink on paper, 20.1 cm x 17.8 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
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Anche l'arte ogni tanto ha bisogno di una spuntatina.
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Absolutely mesmerized by the stunning masterpieces at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam! 🎨🖼️ #painting #museum #amsterdam #art #photography #vangogh
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I'm still in my Van Gogh experiment phase.
I once painted a sheet of paper with colorful patches of watercolor and didn't know what to do with it. Now it's become a great base for this #drawing with Neocolor II. Unfortunately, I don't have a photo of it because I was in such a hurry to get started. 😆
The tree on the right is Japanese-inspired. 😉
In any case, Caran d’Ache Neocolor II crayons work really well on rough paper for painting with wild strokes.
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Copying the wild, dynamic strokes were a lot of fun and almost came by themselves.
Sometimes they were contemplative, liberating, or even vigorously.
I can only imagine the energy van Gogh put into painting his masterpiece, which was three times that size. Wow!
I hope that doesn't sound too silly.
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I admire van Gogh's works and read a biography of him many years ago. To learn his craft, he studied and copied Japanese woodblock prints and drew inspiration from them.
Now I’ve copied “The Starry Night” based on a photo from Wikipedia using Caran D’Ache Neocolor II on a wash of watercolor with French ultramarine. My version measures 23 x 31 cm.
I didn't sign it because it isn't “my” work, after all.
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#ScribesAndMakers August 7: Is there a work of art that you didn't like at first but came to appreciate once you understood it better?
#VanGogh. I accepted he must be a great artist because so many people liked him and that's what the experts said, but his art never did anything for me.
Then I saw an episode of #DoctorWho called "Vincent and the Doctor," in which "VanGogh" describes his art this way:
Look at the sky. It's not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And over there: lighter blue and blowing through the blues and blackness the winds swirling through the air and then shining, burning, bursting through: the stars!Near the end of the episode, a museum curator (played by Bill Nighy) says this:
He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again.An episode of a sci-fi TV series taught me more about art than an entire semester of Art Appreciation in college.
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The Moon Takes the Bow: The Longest Fight in the Sky, Scored on Love, Fear, Respect, and Attention
Two fighters have been circling each other since before anyone kept records, and the purse has never changed hands: the human gaze. In one corner burns a furnace so vast that something like a million Earths could rattle around inside it, the engine behind every green leaf and every heartbeat on this planet. In the other corner floats a charcoal-colored rock, airless and dead, throwing back about twelve percent of the light that hits it. On paper the match is a slaughter. In practice the rock has been taking rounds for ten thousand years, and the strangest fact on the whole card is a matter of scheduling, since only one of these two shows up for both shifts. […] -
Je suis ce genre de nerd, j'ai 4 versions différentes des lettres de Van Gogh.
Les lettres complètes de 1960, la dernière année d'exploitation des droits avant le domaine public, les lettres compètes en édition critique et illustré de 2009, une sélection de 903 lettres tiré de l'édition critique, et Lettres illustrées de Vincent Van Gogh publié par les Éditions Textuel qui contient des fac-similés de lettres de la période 1888-1890, comprenant des dessins originaux, publié en 2003.
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