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A painter he's, a painter he continues to be: even if, as a tender guy, he translates Holland in brown or a bit older, he paints Montmartre and its gardens as a divisionist, and at last the South of France and Auvers-sur-Oise with a livid impasto. even if he attracts or no longer, even if he loses himself in patches of colour or in distortions, he continually is still a painter. And it's this, including the infrequent harmonies he occasionally unearths in a brand new blend of definite tones, which earnings him consciousness and brings him to the fore between males of temperament.
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His lonely and alienated hfe, the harsh material conditions he always or after him. istence, could 1 tion The time had not yet come, however, when pure painting would break decidedly away from visual ap- The on the table. Though not much from the things he had painted in Paris, these were treated differently now, as if to convey their very essence, whether by a touch of bright color or a thick black contour Une of instinctive, different unerring surencss. When he depicts the 49 bleak billiard oil on lamps, its room in the lurid glare of 1 a supernatural life, just as outside in 2 borhood tables glow the night the small neigh- houses zinc-topped cafe aiid Theo van Gogh, photograph.
Rey and on the SelJ-pcrtrait with a Cut Ear, in which he is seen, somewhat indifferent, with a fur cap on his bandaged head, smoking his pipe casually and looking like a Dutch sailor. " But it Roulin, was who a precarious equilibrium. had stood by him misfortune and friend, was shown himself in his a true transferred to Marseilles, and Van Gogh felt his loss keenly. Before their departure Vincent painted the several portraits of Madame as La Berceuse. A February took Van relapse Rouhn in early Gogh back to the 1 Outdoor Cafe Canvas.
In Japanese art, where the technical means always served to convey a terse spiritual for his message, he found a precedent own ideas about the social When he left for Provence, a role of art. land of which he knew nothing but dreamed of as an oasis. " Mincimi Vir 1 ;,ngu> Sclf-Portrait, . C. 1K«7. There is no paradise Boats at Saintes-Maries. June 1888. Canvas, IS^AxiVla Vincent van Gogh. in. Amsterdam. National Mu The Bridge of Langlois. 1 Aries, March 1888. India ink drawing, 9'/4 x 12'/4 in.