Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words -

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A Slide Show Double Tribute to Vincent van Gogh and Don McLean. (portuguese subtitled)

Vincent - Don McLean

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflecting Vincent’s eyes of China blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
Like the strangers that you’ve met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
A silver thorn on a bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will

by Philip Scott Johnson

Self Portraits

Van Gogh Drawings: Vol. 4 (Vincent Van Gogh Drawings): 4 (Vincent Van Gogh, Drawings) -

Starry Night, Art Poster by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundest, Holland. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings. In 1886 he went to Paris and inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin. He 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. He went 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 his own ear 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. 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, 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.
Customer Review: Very nice
I used this poster with my kindergarten class to kick off a lesson on Van Gogh. This was just what I needed. It is reproduced very well at a good price.
Customer Review: Alien beauty
Vincent Van Gogh is neither my favorite artist nor an artist whose work I dislike. I usually look at a Van Gogh work and think, “That’s nice. It’s interesting.” His work usually does not instill enthusiasm in me. But, this one, along with “Iris Garden”, is different. The colors are such lush and so vivid, that I want to run my hand across the picture. There is such a strong impression of texture, conveyed even in art posters such as this, that I expect to feel the waves, bumps, ridges, and ripples of the surface. While I usually prefer more realistic art, this picture is so clearly what it is, yet also so alien in its beauty, that it makes me stop and stare at it, while wondering how Van Gogh really saw the world. This print or poster is a good one for an office, and it might end up in mine.

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Vincent - The Life And Death Of Vincent Van Gogh [1987] -

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