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fairydrowning · 1 year

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Some Letters of Vincent Van Gogh.

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literaturecravings · 2 years

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—From London: January 1874, The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh

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the--chaos · 1 year

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Source: @veenpoems (Instagram)

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careful-disorder · 1 year

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Vincent van Gogh, The Yellow House (a sketch)

“You know I’ve always thought it ridiculous for painters to live alone... You always lose when you’re isolated.” Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo (28-29 May 1888)

“How I think of you and of Gauguin and of Bernard, everywhere and at all times! It’s so beautiful, and I’d so much like to see everyone over here.” Letter to Theo (29 September 1888)

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lettersfromvincent · 1 year

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“This morning I still have a lot of work to do, I see that it isn’t easy and will no doubt become much more difficult, yet have unfaltering hope that I’ll succeed, and I’m also convinced that I’ll learn to work by working, and that my work will become better and more substantial.”

Letter #115. Vincent Van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Monday, 21 and Tuesday, 22 May 1877.

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stfuandletmekissyou · 2 years

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"In This World Love Has No Color

Yet How Deeply My Body Is Stained By Yours"

- Izumi Shikibu

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iblogstfu · 2 years

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You will see that there is a soft, golden effect in the little marine sketch and a more sombre, more serious mood in the woods. I am glad that both exist in life

-van gogh in his letters to theo

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foundatthemuseum · 7 months

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The Laughing Cavalier by Frans Hals - 1624

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Found in The Wallace Collection, London, The Laughing Cavalier is probably a portrait you've seen as in a print or referenced in film. Despite it's name however, the sitter isn't depicted laughing and was almost certainly not a cavalier. The portrait gained it's name in the Victorian era and stuck to this day.

Frans Hals paintings were widely regarded in his lifetime and by those after, an 1885 letter from Vincent van Gogh to his younger brother Theo van Gogh enthuses about Hals' use of colour, particularly noting the depth of tone in his blacks, writing that "Frans Hals has no less than twenty-seven blacks" which is especially apparent in this painting along with the remarkable embroidery.

The portrait can be seen at The Wallace Collection in London, as well as online as part of the Frans Hals: The Male Portrait exhibition.

(opinions) I loved being able to see this portrait in person, on a good screen you can see the difference in the blacks but as someone who had only ever seen it in low-quality prints it honestly stunned me when I saw it in person. Up-close you can really see every little detail and regardless who the sitter was (we have theories, but it's not certain who he was) he has a level of charisma in this portrait that's very charming.

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The Laughing Cavaler image - The Wallace Collection

Vincent Van Gough's letter - Van Gough's letters Webexhibits

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flowerytale · 16 days

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo

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metamorphesque · 9 months

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— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

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derangedrhythms · 3 months

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[…] I’ve got nature & art & poetry, & if that isn’t enough, what is?

Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh ⁠— Theo van Gogh - January 1874, tr. Arnold Pomerans

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world."

– Vincent van Gogh, Letters to Theo

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literaturecravings · 2 years

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—The Letters of Vincent van Gogh, 31st July 1894.

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careful-disorder · 5 months

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Vincent van Gogh, Alychamps, Autumn

"How beautiful it is outside – I sometimes yearn for a country where it would always be autumn, but then we’d have no snow and no apple blossom and no corn and stubble fields." Van Gogh Letter to Anthon van Rappard

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lettersfromvincent · 1 year

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“And now this evening New Year’s Eve again, if only you were here.”

Letter #100. Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh. Etten, Sunday, 31 December 1876.

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iblogstfu · 2 years

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Well, if there could be a little extra this month, that would be wonderful. If not, then not. I shall work as hard as I can. You ask about my health, but what about yours? I would imagine my remedy would be yours as well: to be out in the open, painting. I am well, I still feel like it even when I’m tired, and that is getting better rather than worse. It’s also a good thing, I think, that I live as frugally as possible, but my main remedy is painting.

- Van Gogh in his letters to Theo

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