I can think of no other European painter whose work expresses such - TopicsExpress



          

I can think of no other European painter whose work expresses such a stripped respect for everyday things without elevating them, in some way. He, as soon as he abandoned his first vocation as a preacher, abandoned all ideology. He became strictly existential, ideologically naked. The chair is a chair, not a throne. The boots have been worn by walking. The sunflowers are plants, not constellations. The postman delivers letters. The irises will die. And from this nakedness of his, which his contemporaries saw as naivety or madness, came his capacity to love, suddenly and at any moment, what he saw in front of him. John Berger (British Art Critic) on Vincent Van Gogh
Posted on: Sat, 01 Feb 2014 09:53:05 +0000

Trending Topics



Recently Viewed Topics




© 2015