Vincent van Gogh cytaty
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Vincent Willem van Gogh – holenderski malarz postimpresjonistyczny, którego twórczość dzięki żywej kolorystyce i emocjonalnemu oddziaływaniu wywarła dalekosiężny wpływ na sztukę XX w. Artysta w ciągu swego życia cierpiał na napady lękowe i narastające ataki spowodowane zaburzeniami psychicznymi. Zmarł w wieku 37 lat jako twórca nieznany szerszemu ogółowi, w wyniku postrzału z broni palnej – prawdopodobnie samobójczego.

Mało doceniany za życia, van Gogh zyskał sławę po śmierci. Dziś jest powszechnie uważany za jednego z największych malarzy w historii, artystę, którego twórczość stanowi istotne źródło sztuki współczesnej. Van Gogh zaczął malować na kilka lat przed ukończeniem 30. roku życia, a swe najbardziej znane dzieła stworzył w ciągu 2 ostatnich lat. Jest autorem ponad 2000 dzieł, w tym: 870 obrazów, 150 akwarel i ponad 1000 rysunków i 133 szkiców listowych. Dziś jego liczne autoportrety, pejzaże, portrety i słoneczniki należą do najbardziej rozpoznawalnych i najdroższych dzieł sztuki na świecie.

Lata wczesnej młodości van Gogh spędził, pracując w Goupil & Cie, firmie handlującej dziełami sztuki, i podróżując między Hagą, Londynem a Paryżem. Po powrocie do Anglii otrzymał posadę nauczyciela. Jego wczesnym pragnieniem zawodowym było zostanie pastorem. Od 1879 pracował jako misjonarz w górniczym zagłębiu w Belgii. W tym czasie rozpoczął sporządzanie szkiców ludzi z lokalnej społeczności. W 1885 namalował swoje pierwsze wielkie dzieło: Jedzący kartofle. Jego paleta w tamtym czasie składała się przeważnie z mrocznych, ziemistych odcieni i nie wykazywała ani odrobiny żywej kolorystyki, która charakteryzowała jego późniejsze prace. W marcu 1886 van Gogh przeniósł się do Paryża i odkrył francuskich impresjonistów. Później wyjechał na południe Francji i poddał się czarowi silnego światła słonecznego, które tam znalazł. Jego prace stały się jaśniejsze kolorystycznie, a on sam wypracował swój jedyny i bardzo rozpoznawalny styl, który w pełni rozwinął się podczas jego pobytu w Arles w 1888.

Rozmiar wpływu, jaki choroba umysłowa van Gogha wywarła na jego twórczość, stał się przedmiotem spekulacji po jego śmierci. Pomimo szeroko rozpowszechnionej tendencji do romantyzowania złego stanu jego zdrowia, współcześni krytycy widzą w nim artystę głęboko sfrustrowanego bezczynnością i chaosem myślowym wywołanym atakami choroby. Według krytyka sztuki Roberta Hughesa późne prace van Gogha ukazują go jako artystę w pełni zdolności twórczych i całkowicie panującego nad sobą. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Marzec 1853 – 29. Lipiec 1890
Vincent van Gogh Fotografia
Vincent van Gogh: 268   Cytatów 61   Polubień

Vincent van Gogh słynne cytaty

„Niedola będzie trwała wiecznie.”

ostatnie słowa przed śmiercią, wypowiedziane do brata.
Źródło: Collin Wilson, Outsider-artysta (van Gogh), „Życie Literackie” nr 9, 2 marca 1958, s. 10 http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14903.

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?
To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

Vincent van Gogh Cytaty o życiu

„Jeśli chodzi o moją pracę, naraziłem dla niej życie, a rozum mój załamał się.”

Źródło: Collin Wilson, Outsider-artysta (van Gogh), „Życie Literackie” nr 9, 2 marca 1958, s. 10 http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=14903.

Vincent van Gogh cytaty

Vincent van Gogh: Cytaty po angielsku

“.. by going on drawing those types of working people, etc., I hope to arrive at the point of being able to do illustration work for papers and books.”

In his letter to brother Theo, from Brussels, Belgium (January 1881, letter 140); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 19
being art student in Brussels
1880s, 1881

“And my aim in my life is to make picture and drawings, as many and as well as I can, then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking: "Oh, pictures I might have made!" Theo, I declare I prefer to think how arms, legs, head are attached to the trunk, rather than whether I myself am or am not more or less an artist.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Autumn 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 338) p. 21
1880s, 1883

“I repeat, let us paint as much as we can and be productive, and be ourselves with all our faults and qualities; I say us, because the money from you [Theo], which I know costs you trouble enough to procure me, gives you the right, when there is some good in my work, to consider half of it your creation.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Nuenen, The Netherlands, Spring 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 7 (letter 399)
1880s, 1885

“All my work is in a way founded on Japanese art... Japanese art, in decadence in its own country, takes root again among the French impressionist artists.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, Summer 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 510) p. 32
1880s, 1888

“I said to Mauve: Do you approve of my coming here for a month or so and troubling you for some advice now and then, after that time I will have over come the first 'petites miseres' of painting... Well, Mauve at once set me down before a still life of a pair of old wooden shoes and some other objects, and so I could set to work.”

In his letter to brother Theo, from The Hague, The Netherlands in December 1881; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 29 (letter 162)
1880s, 1881

“What a queer thing touch is, the stroke of the brush. In the open air, exposed to wind, to sun, to the curiosity of the people, you work as you can, you feel your canvas anyhow... But when after a time you take up again this study and arrange your brush strokes in the direction of the objects - certainly it is more harmonious and pleasant to look at, and you add whatever you have of serenity and cheerfulness.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, 10 Sept. 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 605), pp. 33-34
1880s, 1889

“Your description of Troyon and Rousseau, for instance, is lively enough to give me some idea of which of their manners they are done in. There were other paintings from the time of Troyon's municipal pasture that had a certain 'mood' that one would have to call 'dramatic', even though they aren't figure paintings.”

In his letter to Theo, from the Hague, c. 11 July 1883 - original manuscript at Van Gogh Museum, location Amsterdam - inv. nos. b322 a-c V/1962, http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let361/letter.html
At the exhibition 'Les cent chefs d'oeuvre' at Galerie Georges Petit - in Paris, 1883 there were 9 paintings of Troyon. Vincent had asked Theo in Paris to give him a description of the works at this exhibition. Vincent already appreciated Troyon's painting style, which he knew from his Paris' years at art-gallery Goupil where he worked
1880s, 1883

“When I am writing I instinctively make a little drawing now and then like the one I sent you lately, and for instance, this morning, 'Elijah in the Desert.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Amsterdam 12 June, 1877; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 29 (letter 101)
while studying in Amsterdam at the theological school, to become clergyman
1870s

“Now I as a painter shall never stand for anything of importance. I feel it utterly... I sometimes regret I did not simply keep to the Dutch palette [of Dutch impressionism ] with its grey tones, and have brushed away at landscapes of Montmartre [in 1886-87] with no ado.”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, 3 May 1889; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 590), p. 33
1880s, 1889

“But tell me, black and white, may they be used or not, are they forbidden fruit? You... think that when the shadows are dark, ay, black, that it is all wrong then, don't you? I don't think so... Rembrandt and Hals, didn't they use black? And Velasquez???”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Nuenen, The Netherlands, Autumn 1885; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 428) p. 31
1880s, 1885

“. You would also be mistaken if you [Theo] thought that I would do well to follow your advice literally, of becoming an engraver of bill-headings and visiting cards, or a bookkeeper or a carpenter's apprentice, - or else to devote myself to the baker's trade, - or many similar things.... that other people advise me.”

In his letter to brother Theo, from Wasmes, Belgium, 15 October 1879; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 132), p. 19
1870s

“Theo, your brother has preached for the first time last Sunday in God's dwelling.... it is a delightful thought that in the future wherever I shall come I shall preach the gospel; to do that well, one must have the gospel in one's heart, may the Lord give it to me.”

In a letter to Theo, from Isleworth England, Autumn 1876, (letter 79); as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, p. 18
1870s

“Of all the colors I ordered: the three chromes, the Prussian blue, the emerald, the crimson lakes, the malachite green, all the orange lead, hardly one of them is to be found on the Dutch palette, in Maris, in Mauve or Israels - [all contemporaries of Vincent, Dutch painters of the Hague School. ]”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Arles, France, Spring 1888; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 476), p 31
1880s, 1888

“The love between brothers is a strong support through life, that is an old truth, let us look for that support, may experience strengthen the bond between us, and let us be true and outspoken toward each other, let there he no secrets — as it is now.”

Quote in a letter of Vincent to brother Theo van Gogh, from Etten (Netherlands), Spring, 1877; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 90), p. 7
1870s

“I tell you, brother, I am not good from a clergyman's point of view. I know full well that, frankly speaking, prostitutes are bad, but I feel something human in them which makes me feel not the least scruple to associate with them; I see nothing very wrong in them... And now, as in other periods of decline of civilization, the corruption of society has turned upside down all relations of good and evil, and one falls back logically on the old saying: "The first shall be last and the last shall be first."”

Quote in his letter to brother Theo, from Drenthe, The Netherlands, Sept. 1883; as quoted in Vincent van Gogh, edited by Alfred H. Barr; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1935 https://www.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_1996_300061887.pdf, (letter 326) p. 38
Vincent is referring to his former relation with Sien, in The Hague
1880s, 1883

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