eve55 Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 This is really clear one.How do you think about it? Leave you comments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I do like some Van Gogh. Starry Night is an all t I me favorite of mine, and we keep a framed print on the wall of the family room. But the above is not one that I am fond of at all. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairfarmhand Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 No. Too drab. I like his sunflowers and starry night. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matryoshka Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I love Van Gogh, but I find it odd that you'd use as an example such a non-representative painting, that has none of his signature use of color or brushwork. That particular painting, from his pre-impressionistic years, I don't find that interesting. It's muddy. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellen Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I love Van Gogh. This is not one of my favorites. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 some things I like. some I don't. the example is dark and depressing to me. as said above - starry night. I currently have almond blossoms as a skin on my computer, and used to have irises for my phone case. (it did it's job- it broke so the phone itself wouldn't.) I'm replacing it with a william morris design. I grew up with a copy of sunflowers in my dining room- and I hated it. (but it went with the two-tone green shag carpet my mother chose.) might even have something to do with why I don't like sunflowers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 (edited) I love Van Gogh, but I find it odd that you'd use as an example such a non-representative painting, that has none of his signature use of color or brushwork. That particular painting, from his pre-impressionistic years, I don't find that interesting. It's muddy. I'm puzzled too. He has quite a few pieces I really like. This is definitely not one of them nor do I consider it representative of his best years/style. Edited May 26, 2017 by OneStepAtATime 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Yes, but it's not my favorite. This is my favorite Van Gogh. This one is another I like, same subject. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harriet Vane Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I adore Van Gogh, but I am not crazy about the painting in the OP. I much prefer the ones that are saturated with vivid color. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I do, and I like the painting in the OP. The light in the sky is perfect. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavender's green Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 It's not my favorite, but I actually do like it. It reminds me of a painting my grandma had. It was dark and mysterious, and I spent hours of my childhood imagining what was going on in it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 (edited) Yes. Love them. Even the "disturbing" ones. I also love Sibelius' and Grieg's music. The reality of harsh climates, tough lives, and yet amazing beauty really touches to me. Maybe it's living in The Great White North. :o Edited May 26, 2017 by wintermom 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravelingChris Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I love Van Gogh. I do like the painting that the OP but do prefer some others better. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluegoat Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Yes. Love them. Even the "disturbing" ones. I also love Sibelius' and Grieg's music. The reality of harsh climates, tough lives, and yet amazing beauty really touches to me. Maybe it's living in The Great White North. :o Yes, I think it's what Robertson Davies called our mystic Northern spirit, which we try and disguise as that of a Scottish banker. There is a kind of northern aesthetic in that painting - as with all those northern European painters who managed to capture the northern light. We tend to think of Van Gogh as a southern painter with lots of hot colours, so maybe that is why this painting seems so different? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I love Van Gogh, but I find it odd that you'd use as an example such a non-representative painting, that has none of his signature use of color or brushwork. That particular painting, from his pre-impressionistic years, I don't find that interesting. It's muddy. These aren't the most popular, but he has many painting along this vein from before he moved to Paris. People only seem to like his stuff from the last 2 years of his life, though. I have to ask the poster, who is new here, why do you ask? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Welcome to the WTM board. Yes, I like Van Gogh's art works. I think that he was a talented artist. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Nope, too dark and depressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TX Native Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 (edited) This is drab, but I like the story behind it. He wasn't popular for painting the poor, but love that he went against the grain and painted this painting... https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0005V1962 ETA: here is the Wikipedia article on the painting... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Potato_Eaters Excerpt from article.... Van Gogh said he wanted to depict peasants as they really were. He deliberately chose coarse and ugly models, thinking that they would be natural and unspoiled in his finished work: "You see, I really have wanted to make it so that people get the idea that these folk, who are eating their potatoes by the light of their little lamp, have tilled the earth themselves with these hands they are putting in the dish, and so it speaks of manual labor and — that they have thus honestly earned their food. I wanted it to give the idea of a wholly different way of life from ours — civilized people. So I certainly don’t want everyone just to admire it or approve of it without knowing why." [4] Edited May 26, 2017 by TX native 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Yes, but it's not my favorite. This is my favorite Van Gogh. This one is another I like, same subject. I like both of those too. I had the 2nd as my phone case. (or the version with the yellow background) my mom liked irises as a flower - so I is illogical to me she didn't pick one of his iris paintings for the dining room wall. . . . but it was the 70s, and harvest gold, avocado green, and burnt umber were the popular colors for interior design. so sunflowers went better with that color scheme. oh, it was an ugly decade. I'm now trying to find the purple irises she had in her yard. after she sold the house - the buyer did work to the house and the irises were in the way. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 No opinion whatsoever haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Welcome to the board. Yesterday it was a recipe. Today art. I am curious, do you homeschool your children? Feel free to introduce yourself. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Welcome to the board. Yesterday it was a recipe. Today art. I am curious, do you homeschool your children? Feel free to introduce yourself. Nice neutral introductory posts are much preferable to trolling controversial posts. My Dd did a copy of a Van Gogh painting in oil pastels years ago. I still have it in my dining room. Which has nothing to do with the post I quoted. I just wanted to share. 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolt. Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I love what Van Gogh did for art, and I can appreciate his genius -- he was amazing. His place in art history is well deserved. But, for personal taste, I don't "like" it -- I don't find it decorative or appealing for myself. I'm a bit superficial in my art appreciation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I adore this early period in Van Gogh's development (around 1884) when his prime influence seemed to be the French painter Jean-François Millet. Even as a young child I marveled at the paintings of Millet. In their presence, I was always transfixed. Such quiet power! The subtilty of the lighting and achievement of expression with a very limited color palate that Van Gogh (like Millet) achieved during this phase is simply breathtaking. I would suggest, paintings such as these need to be experienced in person, as reproduction on screen or print fails to capture the delicacy of the beauty of these works. Bill 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I adore this early period in Van Gogh's development (around 1884) when his prime influence seemed to be the French painter Jean-François Millet. Even as a young child I marveled at the paintings of Millet. In their presence, I was always transfixed. Such quiet power! The subtilty of the lighting and achievement of expression with a very limited color palate that Van Gogh (like Millet) achieved during this phase is simply breathtaking. I would suggest, paintings such as these need to be experienced in person, as reproduction on screen or print fails to capture the delicacy of the beauty of these works. Bill I agree, seeing paintings in person can be an entirely different experience. I have not had the pleasure of seeing the OP's posted image in person so perhaps I would feel its impact more if I had that honor. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I agree, seeing paintings in person can be an entirely different experience. I have not had the pleasure of seeing the OP's posted image in person so perhaps I would feel its impact more if I had that honor. It is interesting (to me anyway :D) that this holds equally true of Van Gogh's masterworks painted in his last years. Although these paintings with their bold colors and striking composition do (in a sense) reproduce well, when one experiences one up close and witnesses the thickness of the paint and one "feels" the brush strokes and the interplay of color, it is a very different experience than looking at a poster. Bill 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneStepAtATime Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 It is interesting (to me anyway :D) that this holds equally true of Van Gogh's masterworks painted in his last years. Although these paintings with their bold colors and striking composition do (in a sense) reproduce well, when one experiences one up close and witnesses the thickness of the paint and one "feels" the brush strokes and the interplay of color, it is a very different experience than looking at a poster. Bill :iagree: I find this true with most paintings (maybe all?). The experience is very different in person. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
My4arrows Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 He is one of the artists work I actually do enjoy seeing over and over. I even like the picture OP posted. It may be a little dreary looking to some, but it makes me feel peace. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mothersweets Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I enjoy most of his work - seeing it in person makes such a difference. The full beauty of his paintings is amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 (edited) :iagree: I find this true with most paintings (maybe all?). The experience is very different in person. :) To a degree perhaps, but I (from my own aesthetic sense) find a high degree of variability in how much is lost (or how much is unappreciated) between seeing a work in reproduction and in person. Some works don't suffer much (or at all) and others are a profoundly different experience. And, of course, many of these differences are purely subjective. Van Gogh is a different experience in person. Seeing a Vermeer, even one whose composition is well-known to a viewer feels very different in person as the effect of light passing through windows has a magical effect that reproductions can't quite capture. I think of works by artists like Édouard Vuillard or Georges Seurat, that are completely different experiences in person. I saw Seurat's Grande Jatte as a boy (and then again in adulthood) and his pointillist technique of using contrasting dots of color to create an overall effect was literally astonishing. Bill Edited May 27, 2017 by Spy Car 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I like it when you talk art, Bill. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I like it when you talk art, Bill. Guess who that little baby is in the photograph. Bill 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Guess who that little baby is in the photograph. Bill That's a great picture. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 That's a great picture. It was taken by an important Los Angeles-based photographer, Bob Willoughby, who was a dear friend of my father. Me and my dad. Circa 1958 at the (old) Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I spent more hours in art museums as a kid than anyone would ever believe. I mean, way more :D Bill 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 (edited) To a degree perhaps, but I (from my own aesthetic sense) find a high degree of variability in how much is lost (or how much is unappreciated) between seeing a work in reproduction and in person. Some works don't suffer much (or at all) and others are a profoundly different experience. And, of course, many of these differences are purely subjective. Van Gough is a different experience in person. Seeing a Vermeer, even one whose composition is well-known to a viewer feels very different in person as the effect of light passing through windows has a magical effect that reproductions can't quite capture. I think of works by artists like Édouard Vuillard or Georges Seurat, that are completely different experiences in person. I saw Seurat's Grande Jatte as a boy (and then again in adulthood) and his pointillist technique of using contrasting dots of color to create an overall effect was literally astonishing. Bill I agree entirely. For me, my best AhHa moment was seeing my favorite Degas (The Ballet Rehearsal 1873) up close. I had always been in love with that scene,but being a couple of feet from it and just studying the brush strokes, the depth which cannot be conveyed by photo...it was an amazing moment. Okay, so I should admit that part of the romance may have been seeing it in the Muses d'Orsay in Paris! :D But still...photos are wonderful but they do not convey the light, the brush strokes, the depth. Edited May 26, 2017 by FaithManor 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS Mom in NC Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 No. But I do have a copy of his Almond Blossoms hanging in the living room because I love that one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FriedClams Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 Love. Went to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Awesome!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Kiddos Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 I do like this one and I like many of his other ones. There are a few I don't care for. As for the discussion about seeing art in person, I just had the privilege this week to go to the Chicago Art Institute and see a few Van Goghs as well as many other amazing paintings (La Grand Jatte, Monet, and others). The colors of a famous Renoir painting really stood out to me. I had seen this picture before but seeing it in person was amazing. And there was a Mary Cassatt that I fell in love with even more. I enjoyed the whole day so very, very much and my children and husband did as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMS83 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 It's cozy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve55 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 I do like some Van Gogh. Starry Night is an all t I me favorite of mine, and we keep a framed print on the wall of the family room. But the above is not one that I am fond of at all. Starry night is many people's favorite one, and I love it too. Yep, the above picture is not typical Van Gogh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Starry night is many people's favorite one, and I love it too. Yep, the above picture is not typical Van Gogh. Stereotypical? Van Gogh painted in several different styles, so I'm not sure it is right to say there is a typical Van Gogh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve55 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 I love Van Gogh, but I find it odd that you'd use as an example such a non-representative painting, that has none of his signature use of color or brushwork. That particular painting, from his pre-impressionistic years, I don't find that interesting. It's muddy. This is just from another perspective : If you love Van Gogh, you gotta love all his works, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve55 Posted May 27, 2017 Author Share Posted May 27, 2017 Stereotypical? Van Gogh painted in several different styles, so I'm not sure it is right to say there is a typical Van Gogh. It seems people here don't like the picture I posted. Sorry if I've said something wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 It seems people here don't like the picture I posted. Sorry if I've said something wrong. Your picture is just fine. Opinions fly on a message board. Your opinion is as valid as any. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 I like Van Gogh. In this particular painting I like the juxtaposition of the small people are the large sky. I also like the atmosphere of the trees. The buildings are not my favorites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momto4inSoCal Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 I like the picture. It feels calm and serene. In fact I wish I could stroll there with the peasants after my crazy day with sick kids. I've always loved the 1800's, or at least I love my romantic idea's of the time period. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 I like the picture you posted... It's nice and hushed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Okay, so I should admit that part of the romance may have been seeing it in the Muses d'Orsay in Paris! :D But still...photos are wonderful but they do not convey the light, the brush strokes, the depth. I agree! Viewing art, and listening to music, is an experience. And your surroundings matter. It's a glimpse into the world of the person who created them The Scream, by Edvard Munch, which really grabs the imagination of millions of people all over the world, is best understood in Norway in the middle of a long, dark winter when you don't think the sun and warmth will ever return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wintermom Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 Yes, I think it's what Robertson Davies called our mystic Northern spirit, which we try and disguise as that of a Scottish banker. There is a kind of northern aesthetic in that painting - as with all those northern European painters who managed to capture the northern light. We tend to think of Van Gogh as a southern painter with lots of hot colours, so maybe that is why this painting seems so different? Do people think of Van Gogh as a southern painter? I never have. Definitely northern spirit; there is an explosion of colour that occurs in the spring and summer of the north, which is intense but fleeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted May 27, 2017 Share Posted May 27, 2017 I do like the painting you posted and like Van Gogh in general. This is just from another perspective : If you love Van Gogh, you gotta love all his works, lol. I disagree that you have to like all of an artist's work. I almost never do. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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