If Vincent Van Gogh Could See This via LaurieJStone
A huge group of people stand mesmerized in front of “Starry Night” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In 1888, Van Gogh painted this piece from his asylum room window, depicting the Provence night sky. He had committed himself after cutting off his left ear with a razor and sending it to a prostitute.I can’t help wondering what Van Gogh would think if he saw this picture now, painted at such a low time, hanging in one of the world’s most important art museums.
Over a century later, you ask people who their favorite artist is and many say Van Gogh. For such an unhappy person, there’s something light, almost whimsical in his depictions of hay stacks and sunflowers and French fields. I watch this exhibit thinking how sad Van Gogh never knew how studied, appreciated, and revered his art would become. He never realized the legacy he would leave the world. One of his paintings, “Portrait of Dr. Gachet” sold in the 1990’s for over $80 million.
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