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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half September 1884)
... even in its first stage.
1
As I told you already, what I said about it may be wrong in
so far as my words - “If you keep the division of
the space substantially as it is now, it is my opinion that it
can be saved only by a division of light and... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(October 1884)
... my part don't consider superfluous.
The key to many things is the thorough knowledge of the
human body, but it costs money to learn it. Besides, I am quite
sure that colour, that chiaroscuro,
that perspective, that tone and that
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21 April 1885)
... not
formulated as it should be.
I mean there are (rather than persons) rules or principles
or fundamental truths for drawing, as well as for
colour, upon which one proves to fall back when
one finds out an actual truth.
In drawing,... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 30 April 1885)
... [acting-creating.]
When weavers weave that cloth which I think they call
cheviot, or those curious multicoloured Scottish tartan
fabrics, then they try, as you know, to get strange broken
colours and greys into the cheviot - and to get the most vivid
colours... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(4 or 5 May 1885)
... about the Salon is very interesting.
From what you say about the picture by Besnard, I see that
you understood what I wrote about broken colours, orange broken
by blue and the reverse.
However, there are many other colour scales too, but that of
orange against... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(2nd half October 1885)
... Burger and Mantz
and Silvestre knew.
Just to explain how that study was painted - simply this:
green and red are complementary colours. Now in the apples
there is a red which is very vulgar in itself; further, next to
it some greenish things. But there are also... |
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early November 1885)
... -
the other in orange - oaks.
I am completely absorbed in the laws of colours. If only
they had taught us them in our youth!
But it is the fate of most people that by a kind of fatality
one has to seek for light a long time. For, that the laws of
colour... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(6-11 June 1888)
... See illustration of page with sketches. ]
In another category of ideas - when for instance one composes
a motif of colours representing a yellow sky, then the raw hard
white of a white wall against the sky may be expressed, if
necessary, in a strange way by raw... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Emile Bernard
(c. 18 June 1888)
... way you can work in the wind.
This is what I wanted to say about black and white. Take the
Sower. The picture is divided in two; one half is yellow, the
upper part, the lower part is purple. Well, the white trousers
help rest the eye and distract it just... |
