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| Vincent van Gogh, The Harvest, 1888, oil on canvas |
Blue isn't usually such a warm color. Or is it? Ciwt has been living in San Francisco's grey windy summer soup for so many years she's out of touch with summer. So she finds herself coming back to van Gogh's painting of a summer's day in the wheat fields of Arles.
And to a shift in her understanding of van Gogh's painting regime. Until now she has thought of him as a sort of early (and Immensely talented!) precursor of the Abstract Expressionist style that dominated New York in the 1950's. "From my soul to the canvas" was their motto as they stroked animated thick black lines onto huge white canvases (Franz Kline). Or let thinned paint color stain the canvas into enormous color fields (Helen Frankenthaler). Or, placed his canvas on the the floor and danced around it with open cans of paint dripping layer upon layer upon layer (Jackson Pollack of course).
But, no, live and learn, Ciwt. This "just let it rip" technique was not van Gogh's at all. Before applying costly oil paint to canvas, he reworked and revised all of his paintings extensively with numerous sketches and painted studies like these:
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