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| Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 1 August 1882)
... hard at work and need a few more things.
As far as I understand it, we of course agree perfectly
about black in nature. Absolute black does not really exist.
But like white, it is present in almost every colour, and forms
the endless variety of greys, - different... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(12 October 1883)
... gamut.
Mind you, to see it like that, one must not look at the
local colour by itself, but in conjunction with the colour of
the sky!
That sky is grey -but so iridescent that even our pure white
would be unable to render this light and shimmer. Now,
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early June 1884)
... meaning.
In the first place:
A dark colour may seem light, or rather give that
effect; this is in fact more a question of tone.
But then, as regards the real colour, a reddish-grey,
hardly red at all, will appear more or less red... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early June 1884)
... the
Past] by Fromentin with great pleasure. And that book
frequently deals with the same questions which have greatly
preoccupied me of late, and which, in fact, I am continually
thinking of, especially because when I was last in The Hague I
heard things Israëls... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(early July 1884)
... in the
reddish bronze of the corn.
It would be a thing that gave a good impression of summer. I
think summer is not easy to express; generally, at least often,
a summer effect is either impossible or ugly, at least I think
so, but then, as opposition, there... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(2nd half September 1884)
... even in its first stage.
1
As I told you already, what I said about it may be wrong in
so far as my words - “If you keep the division of
the space substantially as it is now, it is my opinion that it
can be saved only by a division of light and... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(October 1884)
... my part don't consider superfluous.
The key to many things is the thorough knowledge of the
human body, but it costs money to learn it. Besides, I am quite
sure that colour, that chiaroscuro,
that perspective, that tone and that
... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21 April 1885)
... not
formulated as it should be.
I mean there are (rather than persons) rules or principles
or fundamental truths for drawing, as well as for
colour, upon which one proves to fall back when
one finds out an actual truth.
In drawing,... | Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 30 April 1885)
... [acting-creating.]
When weavers weave that cloth which I think they call
cheviot, or those curious multicoloured Scottish tartan
fabrics, then they try, as you know, to get strange broken
colours and greys into the cheviot - and to get the most vivid
colours... |
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