ShopDreamUp AI ArtDreamUp
Deviation Actions
Suggested Deviants
Suggested Collections
You Might Like…
Description
Van Gogh said ! ART A DIVINE GIFT
Even more than an act of love, van Gogh believed art to be a divine gift. Just as nature is a universal gift of God, he saw art as nonelitist, accessible to everyone, including the uneducated and illiterate—those otherwise excluded in the restrictive communication of words:
This [revealing God in nature] is far from theology, simply the fact that the poorest little woodcutter or peasant on the hearth or miner can have moments of emotion and inspiration which give him a feeling of an eternal home and of being close to it. . . . At times there is something indescribable in those aspects—all nature seems to speak. . . . As for me, I cannot understand why everybody does not see it and feel it; nature or God does it for everyone who has eyes and ears and a heart to understand. For this reason I think a painter is happy because he is in harmony with nature as soon as he can express a little of what he sees. And that’s a great thing—one knows what one has to do, there is an abundance of subjects . . . (Letter 248). Vincent Van Gogh
Finally, Vincent believed that the art of painting, the very ability to create, was a gift meant to be shared, a profound act of love, demanding a response. Literally drawing the viewer into the marvelous world of his painted canvas, one keenly senses the artist’s need for counter-communication. Little wonder that van Gogh earned the reputation as the ultimate textbook Expressionist artist who “opens his heart and soul and releases his deepest feelings through images intended to embrace the observer and make him a partner rather than an audience, a participant or, at least, a sympathizer within the picture’s emotional world.
Even more than an act of love, van Gogh believed art to be a divine gift. Just as nature is a universal gift of God, he saw art as nonelitist, accessible to everyone, including the uneducated and illiterate—those otherwise excluded in the restrictive communication of words:
This [revealing God in nature] is far from theology, simply the fact that the poorest little woodcutter or peasant on the hearth or miner can have moments of emotion and inspiration which give him a feeling of an eternal home and of being close to it. . . . At times there is something indescribable in those aspects—all nature seems to speak. . . . As for me, I cannot understand why everybody does not see it and feel it; nature or God does it for everyone who has eyes and ears and a heart to understand. For this reason I think a painter is happy because he is in harmony with nature as soon as he can express a little of what he sees. And that’s a great thing—one knows what one has to do, there is an abundance of subjects . . . (Letter 248). Vincent Van Gogh
Finally, Vincent believed that the art of painting, the very ability to create, was a gift meant to be shared, a profound act of love, demanding a response. Literally drawing the viewer into the marvelous world of his painted canvas, one keenly senses the artist’s need for counter-communication. Little wonder that van Gogh earned the reputation as the ultimate textbook Expressionist artist who “opens his heart and soul and releases his deepest feelings through images intended to embrace the observer and make him a partner rather than an audience, a participant or, at least, a sympathizer within the picture’s emotional world.
Image size
1446x1602px 327.81 KB
© 2014 - 2024 GeaAusten
Comments0
Join the community to add your comment. Already a deviant? Log In