The Letters of Vincent van Gogh -

Vincent van Gogh

Penguin Books

1998

560 páginas

18h 40m

ISBN-13: 9780140446746

This thorough collection of van Gogh's letters has been assembled with an artful eye and sensitivity to the artist's thinking. The result is an atypical take on Vincent van Gogh that avoids putting too much stress on his troubled mental state and too much straining by the editor to shape a narrative out of van Gogh's epistolary clues. Instead, we see the thoughtful and contemplative side of this creative genius, as well as his concern for the impact his art and life had on those people closest to him.

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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.