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Inspiration from Artists Wk 154 Featuring Artist’s Ray Morimura and Van Gogh
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Yes, great choices. I particularly like the Potato Eaters. Irises which I saw in the flesh when I worked for an auction house in London is a stunner. There was a scandal about that picture as a supposedly rich Australian won the lot, but didn't have the money to pay for it. 😉,
Two from the recent exhibition at the National Gallery really stood out for me, these reproductions don't do them justice.
(I've never seen the Blue Gloves, nor the Doggie picture before...thanks)
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He must have feverishly painted at every opportunity. In just 10 or so years he produced about 900 paintings and more than 1000 sketches. He did sell more than one painting during his lifetime but often “ traded” paintings for food or art materials etc. I ‘ve just quickly looked at all of his works - my head is spinning! I just remembered that I also had a copy ( on very heavy board ) of Pink Peach Tree. His many views of Paris are interesting and the last image is the first painting he sold.
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Sacrilege I know, but I'm not a lover of his work. I visited the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam a few years ago and was even less impressed after seeng his work in the flesh. The much venerated 'Sunflowers' was flat and dull to my eyes, there I've said it! I thought Kirk Douglas was very good though.
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The reason why van Gough’s ‘Sunflowers’ painting has turned a shade of olive brown, is due to the Chrome yellow oil paint that was used back in the day… so we aren’t seeing the vibrant yellow colour that it would have been!
Nothing new about that as we’re probably all aware of that fact!
I’m a big admirer of his work, I’ve seen a few original pieces over the years.
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It wouldn't be unusual for there to be bits of canvas showing through in a Van Gogh: for one thing, he worked very fast, and for another if you're painting that much, you're going to run out of paint - which he had a lot of trouble in affording since he sold so little. He also bought exotic colours, for the time, including the Chrome Yellow which was a problematic innovation, and probably very expensive. For some, painting is a compulsion - it was so for Van Gogh: on the whole, his work was not polished. And yet, some of it was - the Pink Peach Tree is just beautiful, and I wouldn't trust the eye of anyone who said otherwise! But he was a very varied painter - and it's particularly important in his case to put the work in chronological context: his palette changed drastically over the years.
I like all of his work that I've seen, with the exception of Starry Night - maybe I've been prejudiced against it by the sentimental song, maybe I've just seen it too often - and probably both. But you look at a painting, and something tells me whether it's "right" or not - whether or not it works, basically; and I didn't feel (looking at prints of it, of course) that it does work. It has to me the look of having been painted with the aid of absinthe - (and absinthe as we know makes the heart grow fonder....).
