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Vincent van Gogh
Orchard and House with Orange Roof
1888
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#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #landscapepainting #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Orchard and House with Orange Roof
1888
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#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #landscapepainting #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Orchard and House with Orange Roof
1888
---
#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #landscapepainting #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Orchard and House with Orange Roof
1888
---
#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #landscapepainting #art #painting

Vincent van Gogh
Orchard and House with Orange Roof
1888
---
#VincentvanGogh #PostImpressionism #landscapepainting #art #painting

Vincent, or: Theo

A Sijo

EPIGRAPH:

You don’t know how paralyzing it is, that stare from a blank canvas that says to the painter you can’t do anything.

–Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

the life we painted—over;
blank linen upon my easel;
this choice feels almost sacred;
one false first stroke would skew my course;
still, memory steadies my hand;
old lessons guide the brush I raise

Sijo?

A Korean verse form related to haiku and tanka and comprised of three lines of 14-16 syllables each, for a total of 44-46 syllables. Each line contains a pause near the middle, similar to a caesura, though the break need not be metrical. The first half of the line contains six to nine syllables; the second half should contain no fewer than five. Originally intended as songs, sijo can treat romantic, metaphysical, or spiritual themes. Whatever the subject, the first line introduces an idea or story, the second supplies a “turn,” and the third provides closure. Modern sijo are sometimes printed in six lines.

Let’s write poetry together!

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone – it’s possible. But creatively, it’s more like painting: you can’t just use the same colours in every painting. It’s just not an option. You can’t take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

–Ben Harper (b. 1969)

Would you like to create poetry with me and have a completed poem of yours featured here at the Skeptic’s Kaddish? I am very excited to have launched the ‘Poetry Partners’ initiative and am looking forward to meeting and creating with you… Check it out!

In celebration of The Nap …
The Art of Sleeping?

1) Vincent Van Gogh
2) Vicenzo Stanislao
3) Maria Klabin

#nap #siesta #thenap #thesiesta #napping #catnap #powernap #art #artist #artworld #vincentvangogh #vangogh #vicenzostanislao #kunst #mariaklabin #peinture #thesleepingman #sleep #sleeping #ineedanap #ilovenapping #theartofsleep #theartofnapping

CW: Mental illness, suicide.

"Almond Blossom," Vincent van Gogh, February, 1890.

We all know van Gogh (1853-1890). This is a lovely early-spring scene, with blossoms on the branches of an almond tree against a blue sky. I like the perspective, as if one is standing under the tree and looking up through the branches. It's also very much in the style of the Japanese art that Impressionists loved so much.

This was painted while Vincent was suffering a major relapse in his mental health, while at the asylum in Saint-Remy. It was done as a present for his newborn nephew, also named Vincent, although perhaps one can also sense a soul yearning for the light. Vincent died by suicide in November of that year; it's speculated he had bipolar disorder, although porphyria and epilepsy have also been proposed.

From the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, started by the nephew this painting was gifted to.

#Art #PostImpressionism #VincentVanGogh #AlmondBlossoms #SadStory

In celebration of The Nap … The Art of Sleeping?

1) Frederick Arthur Bridgman
2) Vincent Van Gogh
3) Vicenzo Stanislao
4) Maria Klabin

#nap #siesta #thenap #thesiesta #napping #catnap #powernap #art #artist #artworld #charlesaugusteemiledurand #frederickarthurbridgman #frederickbridgman #vincentvangogh #vangogh #vicenzostanislao #stanislao #mariaklabin #worldofart #thesleepingman #sleep #sleeping #ineedanap #ilovenapping #theartofsleep #theartofnapping #kunst #kunstler #peinture