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The last bit about this 'disease' infecting artists through history was particularly odd. Can you imagine! We might end up with works like this: http://en.wiki
by bluedanieru 15y ago
The last bit about this 'disease' infecting artists through history was particularly odd. Can you imagine! We might end up with works like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Terrace_at_Night http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cafe_Terrace_at_Night
Van Gogh was a big fan of these colors and it shows in his work.
- mtts 15y agoVan Gogh also admitted, in a letter to his brother Theo, to using deliberately exaggerated colors because he suspected the pigments he used were of such poor quality that they'd quickly fade to something more sensible. Which turned out to not always be the case.
- pbhjpbhj 15y ago"Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of color to express myself more forcefully." (Letter to Theo van Gogh, 11 August 1888), see http://painting.about.com/od/artandartistquotes/a/Quotes_Van_Gogh.htm http://painting.about.com/od/artandartistquotes/a/Quotes_Van... That link has several quotes on use of colour. Van Gogh is notable in his symbolic use of colour.