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In reply to the discussion: “I have had a most rare vision”: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night [View all]bettyellen
(47,209 posts)118. Cool...drinks around Grand Central? I would say Raines Library is the place!
I am very close by to Manhattan, it's not big deal. I'm in a crunch time for work for another week, then things should be a lot more flexible during weekdays. But weekends can work for me too! We should invite La Lioness Pryanka, have not seen her in RL in a few years. She is the coolest.
PM me and we will talk next week!!
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“I have had a most rare vision”: Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night [View all]
CTyankee
Feb 2015
OP
Yeah, Dickinson is odd. But if any American poet would get this painting, it would
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#28
but they often should not be in managerial positions...hell on earth depending on
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#57
I secured another job and left, not knowing that that manager had bipolar disorder.
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#70
Since you cited Schama, he and the Beeb did this masterful documentary on Van Gogh
BeyondGeography
Feb 2015
#69
Oh, I'm glad you like it ellen! I'm so happy to post it...it's been a pleasure...
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#23
What genius he had and such pain. Brother Theo declined after Vincent's death. Both died
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#20
his biographers believe that both (and their sister wilhemina) also sufferd from it.
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#35
"tears of joy" yes! That happened to me once...a van gogh wheat field with crows...
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#33
I had that beauty overload happen after a tour through the Frank Lloyd Wright house
BlancheSplanchnik
Feb 2015
#104
i'm a bit obsessed with his palette knife in the second night sky. He must have been
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#38
Thanks CTY. I have always been obsessed with him. As for light - I did
Laura PourMeADrink
Feb 2015
#32
well, all artists are interested in capturing the light. But they just strive to do it in
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#34
It is hard for me to see chiarascuro in this work. Because chiarascuro depened on
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#44
no, light and shadow were always important but I see how gaslight can influence that.
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#50
sorry to sound so snippy...I am far from expert and am an amateur in art history
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#123
In 125 Years, Millions Of People Have Looked At This Painting. No One Really Saw It Until Now.
Omaha Steve
Feb 2015
#43
Check out his book of letters to his brother. Definately not a "mad" anything. Brilliant writer too.
harun
Feb 2015
#67
He was an excellent writer. Really expressive of himself, his life and his art...
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#81
Nice to see you visit here. I do art stuff here at DU every couple of weeks or so...
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#48
I thought Benedict Cumberbatch's - Van Gogh: Painted With Words was very good, and
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#49
and poor Theo had his own psychological problems...he lived only some six months
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#55
I wonder, tho, if he didn't want to be alone...people with bipolar disorder often cannot
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#84
so true. I used to carry a little magnifying glass into museums but I was stopped so
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#65
when I went to the Met as a teen with my aunt- she was appalled that Van Gough "wasted....
bettyellen
Feb 2015
#108
Cool...drinks around Grand Central? I would say Raines Library is the place!
bettyellen
Feb 2015
#118
OK, great! I will research what's going on where artwise in NYC in the meantime.
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#119
Yes! That was the place of my meltdown...I started crying in front of one of his
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#66
I think in my case it was because I had been to Delft and other towns where the great
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#76
Thanks for the sweet complment! I love doing the research and always have a pile of
CTyankee
Feb 2015
#105
Somewhat off-track but still interesting. Van Gogh understood the human optic system.
erronis
Sep 2015
#124
I was hoping to get to MoMA last April but illness of my art buddy and my own health issues
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#127
getting there, but slowly and with setbacks. I have to talk to my neuro doc about
CTyankee
Feb 2016
#129