Starry starry night--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q5fuVFWe0Q

Van Gogh Museum --Amsterdam--a recreation of Van Gogh in his voice.

In these closeups--you see the colors and brush strokes, pencil strokes better.

Excerpts are probably based on his letters to Theo--who financed him--

Yes, too much is made of his madness--

it was probably manic-depressive disorder--and he was an Aries too.

I always want to write a novel called Dear Theo.

It was Theo's wife who conserved Vincent's paintings and was a one woman PR agent--writing the first essay about her brother in law. Theo died a few months after Vincent--while trying to plan a retrospective exhibition.

They are buried next to each other.

Try to get to Amsterdam--I did and I loved it.

The paintings are quite small--and you can see the East Asian influence.

There is not one of his paintings or drawings that I don't love.

I can look at them forever,

He didn't have an easy life--he was often misunderstood.

He was poor, and people don't treat poor people that well.

After a romantic rejection and the failed religious episode, he just painted and drew feverishly, right through his time in the asylum, where he wrote the food was always on the point of going bad.

But his Dr. Gachet liked him.

Trying to live with Gauguin in the "dream"yellow house was a mistake--clash of personalities--both very intense.

Ahead of his time.

Don McLean - Vincent ( Starry, Starry Night) With Lyrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk

As all novelists after Hemingway are Children of Hemingway

all artists aftervan Gogh are Children of Van Gogh.

Kyi May Kaung

9-16-2024