Color to suggest some emotion
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Arles, 8 September 1888
It is color not locally true from the point of view of the trompe d'oeil realist, but color to suggest some emotion of an ardent temperament.
When Paul Mantz saw at the exhibition the violent and inspired sketch by Delacroix that we saw at the Champs Elysees - the "Bark of Christ" - he turned away from it, exclaiming in his article: "I did not know that one could be so terrible with a little blue and green."
Hokusai wrings the same cry from you, but he does it by his line, his drawing; as you say in your letter - "the waves are claws and the ship is caught in them, you feel it."
Well, if you make the color exact or the drawing exact, it won't give you sensations like that.
Letter 533
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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It is color not locally true from the point of view of the trompe d'oeil realist, but color to suggest some emotion of an ardent temperament.
When Paul Mantz saw at the exhibition the violent and inspired sketch by Delacroix that we saw at the Champs Elysees - the "Bark of Christ" - he turned away from it, exclaiming in his article: "I did not know that one could be so terrible with a little blue and green."
Hokusai wrings the same cry from you, but he does it by his line, his drawing; as you say in your letter - "the waves are claws and the ship is caught in them, you feel it."
Well, if you make the color exact or the drawing exact, it won't give you sensations like that.
Letter 533
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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