The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent Van Gogh

Author:Vincent Van Gogh [Van Gogh, Vincent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141920443
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2012-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

While his relationship with his brother remained under great strain and Van Gogh ranked the associated emotions among ‘things without pith’, his letters to Van Rappard increasingly served as a vehicle for his thoughts on art. He sent his friend drawings and copied out innumerable poems by Franêois Coppée and Jules Breton. They exchanged ideas on art criticism and above all on the relativity of the concept of ‘technique’. Central to an understanding of Van Gogh’s views is the passage in which he states that ‘art is something which, though produced by human hands, is not wrought by hands alone, but wells up from a deeper source, from man’s soul […].’ It was that dimension in a work of art that caused Van Gogh, in addition to his purely factual account, to give this description of a weaver at his loom: ‘Whenever that black monster of grimy oak, with all its slats, stands out starkly against the greyness in which it is set, then right in the very middle of it there sits a black ape or hobgoblin or spook making a clatter with those slats from early morning till late at night’

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