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梵高手稿：梵高书信、画作、珍贵手稿
梵高一生中写过很多信，大多数都是寄给弟弟提奥的，也有不少是写给家人和其他艺术家的。梵高一生中也画了很多画，而基本上每一幅都被他在信中用如诗般优美的语言细细描述过。
在这本全新翻译的梵高书信集中，纽约大都会艺术博物馆的安娜·苏，从近千封书信中精心挑选了150多封，撷取了梵高在其中描写这些作品创作、构思过程的片段，以及他对艺术、艺术家、文学、宗教、景观等众多话题的独特见解，配以信中提到的画作以及书信原稿作为参照，向所有热爱梵高的人展示出了一个不一样的梵高。
在这本书里，梵高没有被生活琐事所侵扰，没有精神的痛苦与压力。在这里，梵高只属于绘画，属于艺术，属于那片金黄的麦田与飞过群鸦的天空。
在这本全新翻译的梵高书信集中，纽约大都会艺术博物馆的安娜·苏，从近千封书信中精心挑选了150多封，撷取了梵高在其中描写这些作品创作、构思过程的片段，以及他对艺术、艺术家、文学、宗教、景观等众多话题的独特见解，配以信中提到的画作以及书信原稿作为参照，向所有热爱梵高的人展示出了一个不一样的梵高。
在这本书里，梵高没有被生活琐事所侵扰，没有精神的痛苦与压力。在这里，梵高只属于绘画，属于艺术，属于那片金黄的麦田与飞过群鸦的天空。
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Vincent van Gogh
683 books2,349 followersVincent Willem van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
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December 28, 2024
“…when you look at it through your eyelashes…”
I really struggled with rating this one because I am a huge Van Gogh fan. I had one of his pieces tattooed on me, which then led to the decision to a do a full leg sleeve of beautiful moths…that level of adoration. I decided to divide this one into two reviews to help myself work through the struggle.
Five star review:
The art was gorgeous (as always). The layout of the book paired Vincent van Gogh’s art with the letters he wrote before/during/after each piece. The letters detailed his thoughts behind the focus on a subject, the medium, colors used (when used), and how the finished product landed. What a phenomenal behind the curtain reading experience.
Two star review:
It is nice that the letters were about his art. I would have liked to have seen more letters about what was going on with his life and how everything made him feel. I know letters like this exist, because the last letter in this book sent me down that rabbit hole. Not because of the content, but because the noted reference made no damn sense. I flipped all over the book trying to understand it, before finally giving up and doing my own search. That is where I found a plethora of other letters that match more of what I am looking for.
Four stars to a book that was eye candy.
QUOTES, QUOTES, AND MORE QUOTES:
“There is some sense of color emerging in me that I never had before, something that is wide-ranging and powerful.”
“There is something infinite about painting – I can’t quite explain it to you – but particularly for the expression of moods it is so wonderful. In colors there are hidden aspects of harmony or contrasts that cooperate automatically and don’t take sides.”
“But I mean, it is not easy to find a summer effect that is as rich and as simple and as good to look at as the characteristic effects of other seasons. Spring is delicate, green young wheat and pink apple blossom. Autumn is the contract of yellow foliage against violet tones. Winter is the snow with black silhouettes.”
“You can’t forecast infallibly over such a large area. So best leave it alone. But you analyze it closely, you see that the greatest and most dynamic people of the century always worked against the stream, and that they were always working on their own initiative. You see it both in painting and in literature (I know nothing about music, but I assume that the same holds good there).”
“Since it’s still winter here, please just let me get on with my work; if it’s the work of a madman, that’s just too bad. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
I really struggled with rating this one because I am a huge Van Gogh fan. I had one of his pieces tattooed on me, which then led to the decision to a do a full leg sleeve of beautiful moths…that level of adoration. I decided to divide this one into two reviews to help myself work through the struggle.
Five star review:
The art was gorgeous (as always). The layout of the book paired Vincent van Gogh’s art with the letters he wrote before/during/after each piece. The letters detailed his thoughts behind the focus on a subject, the medium, colors used (when used), and how the finished product landed. What a phenomenal behind the curtain reading experience.
Two star review:
It is nice that the letters were about his art. I would have liked to have seen more letters about what was going on with his life and how everything made him feel. I know letters like this exist, because the last letter in this book sent me down that rabbit hole. Not because of the content, but because the noted reference made no damn sense. I flipped all over the book trying to understand it, before finally giving up and doing my own search. That is where I found a plethora of other letters that match more of what I am looking for.
Four stars to a book that was eye candy.
QUOTES, QUOTES, AND MORE QUOTES:
“There is some sense of color emerging in me that I never had before, something that is wide-ranging and powerful.”
“There is something infinite about painting – I can’t quite explain it to you – but particularly for the expression of moods it is so wonderful. In colors there are hidden aspects of harmony or contrasts that cooperate automatically and don’t take sides.”
“But I mean, it is not easy to find a summer effect that is as rich and as simple and as good to look at as the characteristic effects of other seasons. Spring is delicate, green young wheat and pink apple blossom. Autumn is the contract of yellow foliage against violet tones. Winter is the snow with black silhouettes.”
“You can’t forecast infallibly over such a large area. So best leave it alone. But you analyze it closely, you see that the greatest and most dynamic people of the century always worked against the stream, and that they were always working on their own initiative. You see it both in painting and in literature (I know nothing about music, but I assume that the same holds good there).”
“Since it’s still winter here, please just let me get on with my work; if it’s the work of a madman, that’s just too bad. There’s nothing I can do about it.”
February 20, 2018
I am reading Van Gogh's letters for the first time and I find that although this paperback version of a coffee table book seems voluminous, it is actually very readable and digestible.
Van Gogh wrote more than 700 letters to his brother and friends so going through them all may be a bit difficult for a beginner like me. This volume extracts the more important and interesting letters and organises them according to major phases of his creative output including:
1) the earlier years (his 20s) when he did mostly sketching and little or no painting
2) 1882 - when he moved to The Hague on his own after falling out with is parents where he formed firm opinion about the importance of drawing as a fundamental skill, and when he did his first watercolour and oil paintings
3) 1883 – when he did more studies on ordinary people and scenes in The Hague as well as more rural figures around the countryside letter
4) 1884 -1887 – his father died, he moved to Paris to join Theo his brother, and when he produced what he thought was his best painting then “The Potato Eaters”
5) 1888 – His stay in Arle, the beginning of a very prolific period, with paintings in bright hues of yellow and orange, and the year he did his famous bedroom painting. This was also the year of the ear cutting incident after a quarrel with Gauguin. Van Gogh was later hospitalised.
6) 1889 - he relocated to an asylum near Saint-Remy, and produced paintings darker hues of blue
7) 1890 – In Jan, his nephew named after him was born, And in July, Van Gogh passed away.
I really enjoyed reading this volume and the visual treat of Van Gogh's working sketches, drawings and paintings. He would probably have been a rather difficult man to live with, but you cannot deny after reading his letters - that he has a beautiful soul.
I see his initial difficulties and sense of powerlessness when he was first learning to draw, how he overcame it through constant practise and observation ("I now no longer feel powerless as I used to be when confronted by nature."), his strong beliefs and sense of purpose for himself and his approach to drawing and painting.
On His Life's Purpose
Van Gogh believed he has been created with a purpose - to create beauty. And this gives meaning and inspiration to his life, no matter how downtrodden he may appear.
“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”
“In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.”
“I want to make drawings that will touch people. Either in a figure or landscape, I would like to express, not something sentimentally melancholy, but sincere sorrow....In short, I want to get to a stage where it is said of my work: this man feels deeply, and this man is sensitive. Despite my so-called roughness, you understand, or perhaps just because of it....What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an eccentric, or a disagreeable fellow – someone who has no position in society or will ever have one, in short, the lowest of the low....Well, assuming that everything were exactly so, then I would like to show through my work what is in the heart of such an eccentric, such a nonentity.”
“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”
“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”
“If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.”
“I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.”
On Drawing Versus Painting
Van Gogh spent the first 2 years of his life doing mostly drawing - with pen, graphite - and little painting, believing that he has to get the foundation right first.
“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.”
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.”
On His Subjects and Approach
He loves to draw ordinary folks in their natural surroundings, preferably in motion than at rest, since to him is the truth – that in life there is more toil than rest. This seeking for truth in life reminds me of Hemingway saying in A Moveable Fest: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
Van Gogh wants not just to create beauty, but the kind of beauty that would give people something to think about. He does not believe in painting in an established formulaic way, not does he intend to do a realistic photographic painting, preferring to interpret what he sees and to give it another kind of reality in a crude, blunt way. So he does not believe in drawing all details, but choose to focus on what he feels is important.
“It is always tempting to draw a figure at rest: it is very hard to express action, and in the eyes of many the effect of the former is more “attractive” than anything else....But this 'attractiveness' should not hide the truth, and the truth is that there is more toil that rest in life. So you see, my opinion about it all is particularly that I personally try to work on the truth.”
“I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.”
“I would be desperate if my figures were good; I don't want them to be academically correct. I mean that if you photograph a digger then he would certainly not be digging...My desire is to learn to make such inaccuracies, such deviations, revisions, changes to the reality that they will become, yes, lies, if you will, but more valid that the literal truth.”
Intensity and Urgency
Letter #309 written to Theo in 1883 shows that Van Gogh feared he would not live long and has only 5-10 year left (he was 30 then). This is prophetic – he died at 37. He acknowledged that those who take care of themselves would move from 40 to 50 into relatively calmer waters but he chooses to continue the intensity because “I must accomplish certain work in a space of a few years.”
“The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.”
*Update: In Feb 2018, I finally watched the long awaited "Loving Vincent" movie. The animated movie took over 100 artists, 65,000 frames and 7 years to complete. It was visually stunning and amazing, but I was a little disappointed the storyline did not capture the essence and energy of Vincent so passionately portrayed in his letters. My short review of the movie is at my blog https://monicawantstodraw.wordpress.c...
Van Gogh wrote more than 700 letters to his brother and friends so going through them all may be a bit difficult for a beginner like me. This volume extracts the more important and interesting letters and organises them according to major phases of his creative output including:
1) the earlier years (his 20s) when he did mostly sketching and little or no painting
2) 1882 - when he moved to The Hague on his own after falling out with is parents where he formed firm opinion about the importance of drawing as a fundamental skill, and when he did his first watercolour and oil paintings
3) 1883 – when he did more studies on ordinary people and scenes in The Hague as well as more rural figures around the countryside letter
4) 1884 -1887 – his father died, he moved to Paris to join Theo his brother, and when he produced what he thought was his best painting then “The Potato Eaters”
5) 1888 – His stay in Arle, the beginning of a very prolific period, with paintings in bright hues of yellow and orange, and the year he did his famous bedroom painting. This was also the year of the ear cutting incident after a quarrel with Gauguin. Van Gogh was later hospitalised.
6) 1889 - he relocated to an asylum near Saint-Remy, and produced paintings darker hues of blue
7) 1890 – In Jan, his nephew named after him was born, And in July, Van Gogh passed away.
I really enjoyed reading this volume and the visual treat of Van Gogh's working sketches, drawings and paintings. He would probably have been a rather difficult man to live with, but you cannot deny after reading his letters - that he has a beautiful soul.
I see his initial difficulties and sense of powerlessness when he was first learning to draw, how he overcame it through constant practise and observation ("I now no longer feel powerless as I used to be when confronted by nature."), his strong beliefs and sense of purpose for himself and his approach to drawing and painting.
On His Life's Purpose
Van Gogh believed he has been created with a purpose - to create beauty. And this gives meaning and inspiration to his life, no matter how downtrodden he may appear.
“That I was not suited to commerce or academic study in no way proves that I should also be unfit to be a painter.”
“In my view, I am often immensely rich, not in money, but (although just now perhaps not all the time) rich because I have found my metier, something I can devote myself to heart and soul and that gives inspiration and meaning to my life.”
“I want to make drawings that will touch people. Either in a figure or landscape, I would like to express, not something sentimentally melancholy, but sincere sorrow....In short, I want to get to a stage where it is said of my work: this man feels deeply, and this man is sensitive. Despite my so-called roughness, you understand, or perhaps just because of it....What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an eccentric, or a disagreeable fellow – someone who has no position in society or will ever have one, in short, the lowest of the low....Well, assuming that everything were exactly so, then I would like to show through my work what is in the heart of such an eccentric, such a nonentity.”
“Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.”
“The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.”
“If you work with love and intelligence, you develop a kind of armour against people's opinions, just because of the sincerity of your love for nature and art. Nature is also severe and, to put it that way, hard, but never deceives and always helps you to move forward.”
“I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day , on a regular basis....I am doing my very best to make every effort because I am longing so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things mean painstaking work, disappointment, and perseverance.”
On Drawing Versus Painting
Van Gogh spent the first 2 years of his life doing mostly drawing - with pen, graphite - and little painting, believing that he has to get the foundation right first.
“There are two ways of reasoning about painting: how to do it and how not to do it; how to d it with great deal of drawing and not much colour, how not to do it with a great deal of colour and not much drawing.”
“When I see how several painters I know here are struggling with their watercolours and paintings so that they can't see a solution anymore, I sometimes think: Friend, the fault is in your drawing. I don't regret for a moment that I did not go in for watercolour and oil painting straight away. I am sure I will catch up if only I struggle on, so that my hand does not waver in drawing and perspective.”
On His Subjects and Approach
He loves to draw ordinary folks in their natural surroundings, preferably in motion than at rest, since to him is the truth – that in life there is more toil than rest. This seeking for truth in life reminds me of Hemingway saying in A Moveable Fest: “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
Van Gogh wants not just to create beauty, but the kind of beauty that would give people something to think about. He does not believe in painting in an established formulaic way, not does he intend to do a realistic photographic painting, preferring to interpret what he sees and to give it another kind of reality in a crude, blunt way. So he does not believe in drawing all details, but choose to focus on what he feels is important.
“It is always tempting to draw a figure at rest: it is very hard to express action, and in the eyes of many the effect of the former is more “attractive” than anything else....But this 'attractiveness' should not hide the truth, and the truth is that there is more toil that rest in life. So you see, my opinion about it all is particularly that I personally try to work on the truth.”
“I wanted to make people think of a totally different way of living from that which we, educated people, live. I would absolutely not want anyone to find it beautiful or good without a thought.”
“I would be desperate if my figures were good; I don't want them to be academically correct. I mean that if you photograph a digger then he would certainly not be digging...My desire is to learn to make such inaccuracies, such deviations, revisions, changes to the reality that they will become, yes, lies, if you will, but more valid that the literal truth.”
Intensity and Urgency
Letter #309 written to Theo in 1883 shows that Van Gogh feared he would not live long and has only 5-10 year left (he was 30 then). This is prophetic – he died at 37. He acknowledged that those who take care of themselves would move from 40 to 50 into relatively calmer waters but he chooses to continue the intensity because “I must accomplish certain work in a space of a few years.”
“The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.”
*Update: In Feb 2018, I finally watched the long awaited "Loving Vincent" movie. The animated movie took over 100 artists, 65,000 frames and 7 years to complete. It was visually stunning and amazing, but I was a little disappointed the storyline did not capture the essence and energy of Vincent so passionately portrayed in his letters. My short review of the movie is at my blog https://monicawantstodraw.wordpress.c...
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July 17, 2024I really really enjoyed my time reading this. Beautiful, humorous musings on people, life, the beauty of nature, and one's dedication to their craft. I also loved his thoughts on and exploration of color🫶🏻
June 23, 2015
This is a beautiful and enlightening collection of Van Gogh’s letters in the context of the drawings and paintings that they refer to. The book is well printed on heavy paper, and the reproductions seem quite good. There are reproductions of many of the actual physical letters becaues they often include sketches of the works that Van Gogh was drawing or painting at the time. It also provides the translations of the letters, and representative drawings and paintings. Most of the letters are to his brother Theo, while a few are to others such as Emile Bernard. The focus on drawing was unexpected but very rewarding.
I read it in combination with another very similar volume of all of Van Gogh’s letters to Bernard, again with the reproductions of the physical letters, the transcription into French, the translation into English, and many reproductions, mostly of paintings. In that book, the reproductions are not only of Van Gogh’s works, but those of Bernard, Gauguin, and many other contemporary and historical painters to whom Van Gogh refers in his letters. In this case the correspondence between the works mentioned in the letters and the works reproduced is much closer. The nice thing is that one can find here many of the works referred to in the Van Gogh’s Letters book, but not actually reproduced there, because Van Gogh was writing in parallel to Theo and Bernard. (Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard by Leo Jansen, Nienke Bakker, and Hans Luitjen. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... )
The letters are of course remarkable for their thoughts on art, artists, literature, religion, landscape, and many other topics. The volume with letters to Theo starts in 1882, as he was beginning to teach himself to draw in Holland. His awareness of his shortcomings along with his persistence and conviction that he will achieve the skills he is after are fascinating. The volume gave me a much better appreciation of his drawings, to accompany my interest in his painting. He spend years focusing on the drawing before he felt that moving on to paint was finally right. One subtle change that isn't marked upon in this volume is the switch from Dutch to French. After he moves to France, he shifts from writing to Theo in Dutch to writing to him in French, and his written thoughts are just as insightful. About half the book is dedicated to his development in Holland before he moved to Paris, and about half to his life in France, the vast majority to Provence.
The combination of the two books, with their fine reproductions and lovely presentation, is highly recommended. (I say fine reproductions NOT having recently seen an actual Van Gogh. I can never buy a catalog at the end of a show because the paper is just too far from the actual paint. But in these volumes, the colors and the brushstrokes are legible and fully support the text.)
I read it in combination with another very similar volume of all of Van Gogh’s letters to Bernard, again with the reproductions of the physical letters, the transcription into French, the translation into English, and many reproductions, mostly of paintings. In that book, the reproductions are not only of Van Gogh’s works, but those of Bernard, Gauguin, and many other contemporary and historical painters to whom Van Gogh refers in his letters. In this case the correspondence between the works mentioned in the letters and the works reproduced is much closer. The nice thing is that one can find here many of the works referred to in the Van Gogh’s Letters book, but not actually reproduced there, because Van Gogh was writing in parallel to Theo and Bernard. (Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard by Leo Jansen, Nienke Bakker, and Hans Luitjen. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4... )
The letters are of course remarkable for their thoughts on art, artists, literature, religion, landscape, and many other topics. The volume with letters to Theo starts in 1882, as he was beginning to teach himself to draw in Holland. His awareness of his shortcomings along with his persistence and conviction that he will achieve the skills he is after are fascinating. The volume gave me a much better appreciation of his drawings, to accompany my interest in his painting. He spend years focusing on the drawing before he felt that moving on to paint was finally right. One subtle change that isn't marked upon in this volume is the switch from Dutch to French. After he moves to France, he shifts from writing to Theo in Dutch to writing to him in French, and his written thoughts are just as insightful. About half the book is dedicated to his development in Holland before he moved to Paris, and about half to his life in France, the vast majority to Provence.
The combination of the two books, with their fine reproductions and lovely presentation, is highly recommended. (I say fine reproductions NOT having recently seen an actual Van Gogh. I can never buy a catalog at the end of a show because the paper is just too far from the actual paint. But in these volumes, the colors and the brushstrokes are legible and fully support the text.)
July 19, 2019
Provides a great picture of how Van Gogh looks at the world and his struggles and determination to paint. At the end of the book, I could not stop wondering what he could have achieved if he would not have died prematurely..
July 16, 2019
This book was a gift from a very thoughtful friend and will always be a treasure on my bookshelf. What an amazing opportunity to look into the thoughts - and yes, insecurities - of Vincent van Gogh. To see his work paired with his letters mentioning and describing it - a true gift indeed. I took my time with this book, choosing to savor several entries at a time, rather than plow through cover-to-cover, and I believe I appreciate van Gogh all the more because of it.
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July 9, 2024Bàn họp không chỉ là nơi diễn ra các cuộc thảo luận quan trọng mà còn góp phần tạo nên diện mạo chuyên nghiệp và ấn tượng cho không gian làm việc. Trong số các sản phẩm bàn họp trên thị trường, bàn họp THK-04C2411 nổi bật với thiết kế nhỏ gọn, hiện đại và tính ứng dụng cao, đặc biệt phù hợp với các phòng họp có diện tích hạn chế.
Thiết kế tối ưu cho không gian nhỏ
Với kích thước 2m4, bàn họp THK-04C2411 là giải pháp lý tưởng cho các phòng họp nhỏ, phòng làm việc của lãnh đạo doanh nghiệp hay các không gian tiếp khách sang trọng. Kiểu dáng hình chữ nhật đơn giản nhưng không kém phần tinh tế giúp tối ưu hóa diện tích sử dụng, tạo cảm giác rộng rãi và thoải mái cho người dùng.
Chất liệu cao cấp, bền bỉ
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Tính thẩm mỹ cao
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 không chỉ đáp ứng yêu cầu về công năng mà còn mang đến vẻ đẹp hiện đại và sang trọng cho không gian. Màu sắc trung tính, đường nét thiết kế tinh tế tạo nên sự hài hòa và ấn tượng, phù hợp với nhiều phong cách nội thất khác nhau.
Ứng dụng đa dạng
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 không chỉ là nơi diễn ra các cuộc họp quan trọng của ban lãnh đạo mà còn có thể sử dụng trong các phòng ban, phòng làm việc nhóm hay không gian tiếp khách. Sự đa dạng trong ứng dụng giúp sản phẩm trở thành một lựa chọn thông minh và tiết kiệm chi phí cho doanh nghiệp.
Lợi ích khi sử dụng bàn họp THK-04C2411
Tối ưu hóa không gian: Kích thước nhỏ gọn giúp tiết kiệm diện tích, phù hợp với nhiều không gian khác nhau.
Tính thẩm mỹ cao: Thiết kế hiện đại, sang trọng, góp phần nâng tầm không gian làm việc.
Chất lượng đảm bảo: Chất liệu cao cấp, bền bỉ, đảm bảo tuổi thọ sản phẩm.
Đa dạng ứng dụng: Phù hợp với nhiều mục đích sử dụng khác nhau.
Giá thành hợp lý: Sản phẩm có giá thành cạnh tranh, phù hợp với ngân sách của nhiều doanh nghiệp.
Kết luận
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 là sự kết hợp hoàn hảo giữa thiết kế, chất lượng và tính ứng dụng. Nếu bạn đang tìm kiếm một chiếc bàn họp nhỏ gọn, hiện đại và đa năng, THK-04C2411 chắc chắn sẽ là sự lựa chọn không thể bỏ qua. Hãy liên hệ với chúng tôi ngay hôm nay để được tư vấn và đặt hàng sản phẩm.
Thiết kế tối ưu cho không gian nhỏ
Với kích thước 2m4, bàn họp THK-04C2411 là giải pháp lý tưởng cho các phòng họp nhỏ, phòng làm việc của lãnh đạo doanh nghiệp hay các không gian tiếp khách sang trọng. Kiểu dáng hình chữ nhật đơn giản nhưng không kém phần tinh tế giúp tối ưu hóa diện tích sử dụng, tạo cảm giác rộng rãi và thoải mái cho người dùng.
Chất liệu cao cấp, bền bỉ
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 được làm từ chất liệu gỗ công nghiệp cao cấp, phủ Melamine chống trầy xước, ẩm mốc và dễ dàng vệ sinh. Chân bàn được làm từ thép sơn tĩnh điện chắc chắn, đảm bảo độ bền và khả năng chịu lực tốt.
Tính thẩm mỹ cao
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 không chỉ đáp ứng yêu cầu về công năng mà còn mang đến vẻ đẹp hiện đại và sang trọng cho không gian. Màu sắc trung tính, đường nét thiết kế tinh tế tạo nên sự hài hòa và ấn tượng, phù hợp với nhiều phong cách nội thất khác nhau.
Ứng dụng đa dạng
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 không chỉ là nơi diễn ra các cuộc họp quan trọng của ban lãnh đạo mà còn có thể sử dụng trong các phòng ban, phòng làm việc nhóm hay không gian tiếp khách. Sự đa dạng trong ứng dụng giúp sản phẩm trở thành một lựa chọn thông minh và tiết kiệm chi phí cho doanh nghiệp.
Lợi ích khi sử dụng bàn họp THK-04C2411
Tối ưu hóa không gian: Kích thước nhỏ gọn giúp tiết kiệm diện tích, phù hợp với nhiều không gian khác nhau.
Tính thẩm mỹ cao: Thiết kế hiện đại, sang trọng, góp phần nâng tầm không gian làm việc.
Chất lượng đảm bảo: Chất liệu cao cấp, bền bỉ, đảm bảo tuổi thọ sản phẩm.
Đa dạng ứng dụng: Phù hợp với nhiều mục đích sử dụng khác nhau.
Giá thành hợp lý: Sản phẩm có giá thành cạnh tranh, phù hợp với ngân sách của nhiều doanh nghiệp.
Kết luận
Bàn họp THK-04C2411 là sự kết hợp hoàn hảo giữa thiết kế, chất lượng và tính ứng dụng. Nếu bạn đang tìm kiếm một chiếc bàn họp nhỏ gọn, hiện đại và đa năng, THK-04C2411 chắc chắn sẽ là sự lựa chọn không thể bỏ qua. Hãy liên hệ với chúng tôi ngay hôm nay để được tư vấn và đặt hàng sản phẩm.
January 1, 2024
Último libro de 2023. Despedimos éste año con un totazo...
Soy absolutamente impedido para las artes gráficas. Veo colores y puedo ver que una fotografía/pintura es buena o mala pero mi conocimiento y mis gustos al respecto son completamente rudimentarios, al nivel de "Imagen centrada = buena". Empecé este libro por recomendación de alguien que aprecio mucho y siento que ésa es la mejor manera de llegar a temáticas a las cuales uno no se ha aproximado o que no terminan de capturar interés: Confiar en el criterio de alguien cercano a ti es re lindo.
Qué libro tan hermoso. Nunca había profundizado mucho en la vida y obra de Van Gogh y ésta es una forma fenomenal de empezar ese camino. Es hermoso poder ver también el proceso creativo del man y que prácticamente te explique algunas de sus más famosas obras.
Es lindo, y siento que es el libro de centro de mesa perfecto.
Soy absolutamente impedido para las artes gráficas. Veo colores y puedo ver que una fotografía/pintura es buena o mala pero mi conocimiento y mis gustos al respecto son completamente rudimentarios, al nivel de "Imagen centrada = buena". Empecé este libro por recomendación de alguien que aprecio mucho y siento que ésa es la mejor manera de llegar a temáticas a las cuales uno no se ha aproximado o que no terminan de capturar interés: Confiar en el criterio de alguien cercano a ti es re lindo.
Qué libro tan hermoso. Nunca había profundizado mucho en la vida y obra de Van Gogh y ésta es una forma fenomenal de empezar ese camino. Es hermoso poder ver también el proceso creativo del man y que prácticamente te explique algunas de sus más famosas obras.
Es lindo, y siento que es el libro de centro de mesa perfecto.
July 18, 2021
This book gives a wonderful into the life and mind of Vincent Van Gogh. It is so inspiring to see how pure his dedication is to his art and how steadfastly he works to create paintings which capture the way he sees the world even when he is getting no external results or positive feedback from the world. Instead, he is determined to just steadily work each day and improve day by day, applying himself in sickness and in health. It is wonderful to see how his works progress over time and so moving to see how much he develops as an artist and a person.
March 15, 2020
Wonderful experience to see Van Gogh's own detailed words of his art, from theme to color selection, from thoughts to techniques. In his letters he's a passionate artist, but also a human who lives a life while feeling all the pain of it. It hurts to see the blank page all of a sudden after 1890 July, no matter how well I thought I was prepared for the final chapter.
He is such wonderfully extraordinary heritage of human being, and it's worth 1000 times to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
He is such wonderfully extraordinary heritage of human being, and it's worth 1000 times to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
May 27, 2018
This fantastic legacy has totally made some remarkable changes in me forever....
This book trained my mind as a painter. That’s all i can say....
This book trained my mind as a painter. That’s all i can say....
February 22, 2021
amazing pictures, sketches,highlights from his letters, and insights into the goat.
March 12, 2021
《梵高手稿》（荷）文森特·梵高。
May 2, 2021
A intricately composed guide to the great artist's mind!
May 15, 2022
This was a really nice way to see Van Gogh’s development as a technical artist. What I enjoyed more was his clear love of art and colour.
July 10, 2022
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July 26, 2022
i cried multiple times. van gogh writes with a tenderness and self- intuitiveness that must be savored and read slowly with care. definitely a favorite that will stay close to my heart!
July 31, 2023
不断的努力去追求自己想要的东西，令人敬佩的人生
November 6, 2023
「实际上，我只不过就是一个爱自然、爱学习、爱工作，特别是爱人类的人啊。」
September 3, 2024
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May 16, 2025
Skimmed- detailed collection of letters. I find his story interesting especially after having seen the immersive experience. Liked the paintings and sketches included in this edition.
July 5, 2025
Rest in peace, Vincent. I hope you had a joyous reunion with Theo.
August 22, 2025
Poor guy was mentally unstable and it's so sad to watch it in words. Read it.
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January 30, 2021Follow Van Gogh's journey... From aspiring to become a painter later in life than other artists, to mastering form, discovering color, to the great paintings. Van Gogh sketched tirelessly in the early years, slowly grasping the three dimensional form of the figure through sketching labourors and common people. He started painting and almost immediately painted drastic emotions and exaggerated human forms. He was introduced to color through the impressionists and developed his own color palette. He was not mad as is sometimes assumed to be but checked into asylums when his mind became more chaotic than normal. He was seeking sanctuary. Van Gogh painted scenes of gardens while in the asylum and also created some of his great paintings. In the last years he painted the great paintings of nature by which he is mostly remembered. After he shot himself and died two days later, his brother Theo, who supported his life and work tirelessly and to whom most of the letters in the volume were addressed, died soon after of heartbreak. Excerpts of letters are shown side by side with sketches and paintings from the same time period. Many clues are here that show how he perceived, thought, and executed his timeless art works.
February 20, 2011
Given to my by one of my best friends for my 28th birthday. The actual book is gorgeous, a tactile experience to read in and of itself, with thick, almost silky pages. Stunning full color images throughout combined with visually appealing formatting make for a reading experience anyone can appreciate, an artist or not!
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March 7, 2016I think Van Gogh's paintings are enhanced by these letters. It shows his drive to succeed as an artist but never making it during his life. Without these letters, would we know what it's like to be an artist?
September 15, 2014
4.5. Love that you can see that he is 90% normal a genius with an I diagnosed epileptic disorder. Fascinating.
May 17, 2013
Being able to read Van Gogh's words while perusing his work provides wonderful insight into the mind of a true artist.
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