awesomeness from beyond the grave!
You know who's awesome? Me. HA! You know who was even more awesome than me? Vincent Van Gogh. He was rad-tacular. I think so, Don McLean thinks so, and I'm sure you do too. So I suggest you check out his letters at :
a quote from the letter that accompanies the above sketch:
To Theo from Arles
September 1888 "..croquis of a square no. 30 canvas showing the house and its surroundings under a sulphur sun, under a pure cobalt sky. That’s a really difficult subject! But I want to conquer it for that very reason. Because it’s tremendous, these yellow houses in the sunlight and then the incomparable freshness of the blue.All the ground’s yellow, too. I’ll send you another, better drawing of it than this croquis from memory; the house to the left is pink, with green shutters; the one that’s shaded by a tree, that’s the restaurant where I go to eat supper every day. My friend the postman lives at the bottom of the street on the left, between the two railway bridges."
September 1888 "..croquis of a square no. 30 canvas showing the house and its surroundings under a sulphur sun, under a pure cobalt sky. That’s a really difficult subject! But I want to conquer it for that very reason. Because it’s tremendous, these yellow houses in the sunlight and then the incomparable freshness of the blue.All the ground’s yellow, too. I’ll send you another, better drawing of it than this croquis from memory; the house to the left is pink, with green shutters; the one that’s shaded by a tree, that’s the restaurant where I go to eat supper every day. My friend the postman lives at the bottom of the street on the left, between the two railway bridges."
I just want to give him a big hug!
the picture and the quote come from: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/
an awesome site dedicated to illustrations where I found the previous link.
posted by bridge @ 9:32 PM
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