The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh -

Vicent Van Gogh

Magpie

2011

490 páginas

16h 20m

ISBN-10: B005LB0CAG

A carefully selected edition of the letters of Van Gogh. For this great artist it is unusually difficult to separate his life from his work. These letters reveal his inner turmoil and strength of character, and provide an extraordinary insight into the intensity and creativity of his artistic life.

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5 (Perfeito)

What an amazing book. what an amazing artist van gogh was. reading his letters (so personal and toughtful, by the way) made me understand and admire him even more.

he was a tortured artist because the world he lived in was increasingly rejecting art. there is no space for art in the modern capitalist world.

he once said that "art is to console who is broken by life". i feel much more consoled after this book. his works tried to capture that exact moment when we look at the sky, or the scenary, and we realize that we are nothing more than a single part of this infinity universe that we are in. and there is beauty to it. as humans, we are not supposed to conquer the space and the seas, we are suppose to admire it and just imagine what the other side holds for us. maybe we'll never find out, but he have art to imagine it.

i'll never, ever, look at one his paintings the same way again.