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Vincent van Gogh, Seestück bei Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer - Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer by HEN-Magonza

“Vincent van Gogh, Groot-Zundert 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise 1890 Seestück bei Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer - Seascape near Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer (1888) Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL

We can tell that Van Gogh painted this view of the sea from the beach, as grains of sand have been found in the paint layers. It was done at the fishing village of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, during a trip he took from Arles in the south of France.

In addition to the blue and white that he brushed onto the canvas with bold strokes, he used green and yellow for the waves.

He applied these colours with a palette knife, neatly capturing the effect of the light through the waves. Van Gogh was enthusiastic about the colours of the Mediterranean Sea. He wrote that it ‘has a colour like mackerel, in other words, changing – you don’t always know if it’s green or purple – you don’t always know if it’s blue – because a second later, its changing reflection has taken on a pink or grey hue’. The bright red signature has been placed prominently in the foreground: it was intended as a ‘red note in the green’.

Source: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam”

Source: Flickr / hen-magonza
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The First Mourning, 1888, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905)

The First Mourning, by French painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau, depicts - well - the very first mourning. It shows the aftermath of the biblical murder of Abel by Cain. Here we see humanity’s very first experience of grief as Adam and Eve find their son’s body. They suffer from losing a loved one, and murder at that, a murder committed by their other son.
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““I am beginning to consider madness as a disease like any other and accept the thing as such. Almost everyone we know among our friends has something the matter with him.”

— Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to Theo (via yerflapper)

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“Who am I in the eyes of most people? A nobody, a non entity, an unpleasant person. Someone who has not, and never will have any position in society. In short, the lowest of the low. Well then even if that were all absolutely true, then one day I will have to show by my work what this nobody, this non entity has in his heart.”

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“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”

— Vincent van Gogh