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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 2 August 1883)
... And Rappard,
too, when he comes back.
The first two figures I painted this year were done in the
way I tried last year, drawing them, and then filling in the
outline. That is what I'd like to call the dry manner. The
other way is to make the drawing last... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 4-8 August 1883)
... this seems to help,
rather than to hinder, and now that I let myself go a little,
and look more through the eyelashes, instead of concentrating
on the joints and analysing the structure of things, it leads
me more directly to seeing things more like adjacent
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(24 September 1883)
... [Postcard]
Dear Theo,
Today I send you by parcel post three studies which I hope
are dry enough; however, if they stick to the sheet of paper I
put over them as a precaution, sponge them off with tepid
water. The paint on the smallest one especially... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 3 October 1883)
... have been able to paint it in that same spot, for if one works
in too dark a room, the work usually becomes too light, so that
when one brings it out to the light, all the shadows are too
weak. I just had that experience when I painted from the barn
an open door... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(April 1884)
... 474]; I thought you
would like the subjects. As for the execution, I should have
wished with all my heart that the direction of the pen
scratches had followed the forms more expressively, and that
the forces which render the tone of the masses expressed their
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early June 1884)
... is no real
black in colours either.
However, you must beware of falling into the error of
thinking that the colourists do not use black, for of course as
soon as an element of blue, red, or yellow is mixed with black,
it becomes a grey, namely, a dark, reddish,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(late April 1885)
... in my work. At least, so distinctly.
I mean from life especially. I paint this from memory on
the picture itself. But you know yourself how many times I
have painted these heads!
And then I drop in every night to correct some details on
the spot.... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early May 1885)
... my
former work but hesitantly done.
I think you will see what I mean in the picture of the
potato eaters, I think Portier will understand. It is very
dark, however, and in the white, for instance, hardly any white
has been used, but simply the neutral colour,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(6 May 1885)
... had to pay
25 guilders for rent, too.
But I do think the picture requires a background of gold or
brass. Because then the marbled aspect disappears, and the
lights get relief. But that effect can easily be obtained by
putting a bit of ochre-coloured paper... |
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