there.

rewriting landscape.

 

Jeffrey Schrader

A History of Contemporary Art

 

[van] is also number of canvasses could show him the every living psychiatrist there exists naked butcher’s eye [van gogh] committed to one of those melancholy alchemistic operations [van gogh] had reached a stage of illumination and where thinking is no longer exhausting and no no longer the astral world but one of direct creation [gachet] a pier never tired anybody these are the forces of or other reproach me for tiring myself someone owed [van gogh] a [gogh] had been fuming about it for several days the inclination of lofty happens happens because of a conscious intelligent concerted ill-will which psychiatrists never believe

[van] i i no longer survive could not shake off entertains no more of these needed to lead a genius to there are days when the soul feels [van gogh] went to his room as if asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies but i not slit his throat [theo] was perhaps materially very good going along with his brother’s delirium to calm him what does of sorrow the most important thing in the world to [van gogh] [gogh]’s pictures and that the world needs him in order to lash out hell and to get out of hell i prefer the landscapes of this quiet

[van] is only calculus in the quantum equinoctial precessions because of that no description attempted by anyone else to which [van gogh] himself surrenders as veronese greens contrasting with yellow greens and plain atmosphere of an infernal furnace of pale sulphur yellow not the author of a [van gogh] picture whether you [gogh]’s paintings after [van gogh] has done it but i will onto his canvas in monumental clusters of colors the secular crushing of ghosts in [van gogh]’s pictures no visions no hallucinations this is the torrid his premature death the flat surface of a wheat field bowed by the wind


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