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I want to share my Vanity Fair ‘Spy’-style homage to Vincent van Gogh (Vanity Fair in its original Victorian/Edwardian incarnation, rather than the magazine we know today)

It seems strange that certain colourful figures from the art world, such as Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, were overlooked by this publication in its day.

But overlooked they were, so I thought I’d create my own ‘Spy’ caricature of Vincent.

You're welcome to visit my website https://www.amandaclegg.co.uk/vincent-van-gogh-le-fou-roux/ to read the fuller story behind the portrait and it's curious title.

Hey guys, I found it really interesting the fact that Van Gogh's "Patch of Grass" hid a peasant's portrait from his Nuenen era and how he was so bankrupt that he had to paint over it bc he couldn't afford a new canvas, that's why no one knew abt this for more than 100 years.

If you are interested, I made a video abt it in Spainsh with eng subtitles: https://youtu.be/pyW_mJtPx4Y Thanks and I hope your feedback!!

Oh Van G! I had the absolute privilege to stand in front of this today and admire this utter masterpiece at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

This is one of a series of canvasses of olive trees which Van G painted while at the asylum at Saint -Remý in Provence. For him, the olive tree symbolized the region, as well as being associated with the story of Christ’s passion.

Van G’s technique is highly expressive, much of the pigment directly applied from the paint tube (yes, I was actually listening!). The swirling strokes (impasto) generate a feeling of agitation , compounded by the deeply steeping slope.

I feel this painting carries such a restless energy. The tress writhe, pulse and are almost feverish. They show his own state of mind. The whole landscape is alive with tension! Van G also wrote about the olive trees to his brother about how much he loved olive trees. You see real tenderness, turmoil and agitation in this painting.

I’m elated I saw this today. 🙏

Have you ever thought about why people mostly take and share photos of flowers when they are fresh, alive, and still able to remain beautiful? Why do they photograph them, look at them, and admire how beautiful they are?
But no one talks about the effort, the struggle, that a flower goes through while becoming beautiful.
Sharing a flower in its worst state comes from a place that everyone does not want to see, yet deep down we all know what it will eventually become. It is our fear of that transformation.
Have you ever seen flowers photographed when they are dead? Or loved when they are dead? No. Because they are no longer beautiful.
When you look at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, the flowers are neither fresh nor completely dead. They seem to be somewhere in between.
Van Gogh was that kind of painter too: caught in between. He could not escape the thin line between his emotions and his life.
No one truly understood the wild, lonely world behind the struggle he carried just to be able to paint.
But when Van Gogh painted Sunflowers, the flowers he saw were not fresh flowers. He kept flowers in his home that resembled himself… Mavien Seçkin

Hello Fellow Van Gogh-ites!

I first want to say a big thank you to this beautiful community. It has been a joy to travel the world to see the beautiful works of Van Gogh through your lenses. Please keep on sharing!

I am proud to share these Van Gogh masterpieces from the National Gallery of Canada in our nations capital, Ottawa (https://www.gallery.ca/). I love when extreme close-ups of his paintings are captured, so I tried to do the same.

Here’s to enjoying the beauty that this world has to offer! 👩‍🎨🎨