Forum Post: vincent
Posted 11 years ago on Aug. 6, 2012, 10:02 p.m. EST by TryingForAnOpenMind
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from Yonkers, NY
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I tell you the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
Good stuff.. and Hey, to the people who have posted music from Big Audio Dynamite here, excellent !
I don't know of any person who was more driven, more obsessed to DO their art. It permeated him in every respect and on every level. I have read his biograqphies and that of his friends. I appreciate his work on only a very superficial level and, as a painter, I find it a little scary to contemplate how completely it consumed him. Since I have no talent, nor schizophrenia, there is no way that it could happen to me. In any case, I would never want to live his life.
I see much more than sorrow in his work
Well, I don't think I said that. His work was the only thing that brought him anything that looked (to me) like pleasure. But it more often brought him relief from the torment, from the firestorm going on in his mind. And frequently it brought him frustration because he couldn't get it just right. Sometimes three canvases a day. He probably destroyed more art than any other painter. That was done out of frustration.
One of the reasons I can't fully appreciate him is that he was driven by color and light effects that I can't see as he saw them, because I am color blind. He was using the eye's preprocessing effects to blend color using the computational mechanism that we have only recently discovered somewhere between the retina and the brain. I either don't sense color the way others do or I process it differently. What I see is consistent, it always the same. But what I see isn't the same as yours or his. His work is unlike the other Impressionist's work, which I can see and process OK, for the most part. A lot of his work, especially his later work, diverges from what I can process as representational, as real. I could, up to a point in his body of work, after which I start to lose the emotional connection. Many tell me his work gets better for them chronologically. Monet, who was very driven, made progress that I can appreciate right to the end. It is what it is, for me. But it can't be, what it isn't.
What I see and feel in his work...is such an intensity of love,...sometimes with sadness.. manifested in a sublime, wild, beauty. Words fail me. I diminish the paintings by the attempt.
We all do.
sorrow, love and beauty...are often inseparable
"I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better'
vv in letter to Theo van Gogh, Jul. 1880
he was a brilliant angel
Interesting documentary recently
He did not commit suicide,
he was probably killed accidentally by a teenager playing with a gun
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"Oh, I am no friend of present-day Christianity, though its Founder was sublime —
I have seen through present-day Christianity only too well. That icy coldness hypnotized even me, in my youth — but I have taken my revenge since then. How? By worshiping the love which they, the theologians, call sin, by respecting a whore, and not too many would-be respectable, pious ladies. To some, woman is heresy and diabolical. To me she is just the opposite."
yeah... I have read some theories on his sad death. I admire him so.
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we need to stop trying...
no...try to change that way of thinking.
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good point..hows the weather in bennington?
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brutally hot in nyc yesterday....gotta little nicer today :)
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that could be a song probably in point counter point
I live in Yonkers...So,I can get away to some woodsy parks by the Hudson river..Thank God...concrete jungle not for me.
artistic people need love more than you can think...
money and security are also useful
"When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars."
could you try to find some music video for me? it needs to be exactly as i typed: The Prodigy feat. Cypress Hill - Throw Your Molotov Bitch In The Air (Mashup) i want to know what is so contradiction about it
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no that's an Olympic ad
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daily motion needs to step up
banners is still the way to post ads
I heard political ads are running on youtube in swing states
we should find those and shit all over them
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I get angry and indignant over political ads
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I would like to spit in the face of everyone involved with the making and approval of the making of a pro-Fossil Fuel ad.
Hey waz up ? Come on you can drop the political gibberish for a while ?
this one you can not find anywhere but middle east http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ_oemq8uws&feature=watch_response
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thanks for tune.love Mick
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true. that what humans like he he he
your words are valid.