The sermons of Vincent van Gogh
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- About Vincent Van Gogh in the history of fine art: Page: 1 | 2 | 3
- The sermons of Vincent Van Gogh: Page 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
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His discipline, his protestant work ethics
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 Vincent van Gogh worked very hard. Every day, like other people. He refined his technical skills, his colors, his style. His sermons came from his heart and not from his belly. He knew exactly was he was doing and therefor he knew also how good he was. What might sometimes look like randomness of color and layout is in fact high precision. Always. Later photos on site document this.
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Can one detect mental disorder and loss of artistic control in any of Vincent van Goghs pictures? I do not think so.
A detail of Vincent van Goghs bedroom in Saint-Remy 1889. The house does not exist any more. One had noticed two strange details. A) Usualy Doors open to the inside of the rooms. But the bed overlaps the doorpost, so that the door could not be opened any more. One assumed that van Gogh was sloppy and had overlookd this detail. B) The perspective lines of the pictures on the wall and of the bed do meet properly. The foot of the leftside bedpost on the back is adjacent to the back wall, while the rightside bedpost is at a distance. One assumed now that van Gogh had lost control of his sense for the geometry of real space and of correct perspective. It was attributed to "lunacy" in accord with his epileptic fits.
A French team found the architects plans of the house and reconstructed all details of that room. They found that A) the door had indeed opened to the outside of the room, that B) the bed was too long and the overlapping with the doorpost inevitable and that C) this particular corner of that room was about 70 and not 90 degrees because the front walls of the house were in line with non-rectangular street corners. Van Gogh had painted exactly what he saw, regardless that his excellent sense for picture architecture might have tempted him to rectify the picture details for better credibility with later critics.
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The breathing rhythms of van Goghs brushstokes
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They are unique in the history of fine art. They are a big thing, not a detail. I think that it would be easier to reinvent a Raphael than a van Gogh. Van Goghs brushstrokes have rhythm, created in a natural flow from his heartbeats to the brain to the arm to the brush.
Raphael: Look at the compository rhythms of eyes, noses and lips. Mozart: High precision regularity. Van Gogh details: Rhythmic brushstrokes.
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