Mine are totally different
Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, from Antwerp, mid-January 1886
I have arranged with Vinck (a pupil of Leys's by whom I saw things in the manner of Leys, medieval) to draw works of antiquity in the evening.
I have been drawing there for two evenings already, and I must say that I believe that just for the making of, for instance, peasant figures, it is very useful to draw from the plaster casts. But for goodness' sake, not the way it is usually done. In fact, in my opinion the drawings that I see there are all hopelessly bad and absolutely wrong, and I know for sure that mine are totally different. Time must show who is right.
The feeling of what ancient sculpture is, damn it, not one of them has it.
Well, probably the academic gentlemen will accuse me of heresy, but never mind.
Letter 445
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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I have arranged with Vinck (a pupil of Leys's by whom I saw things in the manner of Leys, medieval) to draw works of antiquity in the evening.
I have been drawing there for two evenings already, and I must say that I believe that just for the making of, for instance, peasant figures, it is very useful to draw from the plaster casts. But for goodness' sake, not the way it is usually done. In fact, in my opinion the drawings that I see there are all hopelessly bad and absolutely wrong, and I know for sure that mine are totally different. Time must show who is right.
The feeling of what ancient sculpture is, damn it, not one of them has it.
Well, probably the academic gentlemen will accuse me of heresy, but never mind.
Letter 445
Translation courtesy of Robert Harrison.
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