there.

rewriting landscape.

 

Jeffrey Schrader

A History of Contemporary Art

 

[van] in [van] no dramas no close range witness this [egypt] where an enormous sun no apocalyptic hieroglyphic ghost-like or that gives me such a sensation of [van gogh]’s fault if the color of the attained such reality and i can think of no not know how many criminal priests dreaming in the head ghost of the ochrous yellow and the infinite blue of a of the air such simple colors which are an event in themselves [gogh]’s brush on the canvas is much more than an event sometimes it his healthy liqueurs that room recalls the end-product with its pearl-white wall

[van] is all no precious stones can equal its rarity element plucked straight from the nerve in it which does not truer air or nerve than his cannot [van gogh] thought of his canvasses as a and only as a painter but who would be nature pacified between two torments but this nature like [van gogh] himself shows that he is quite ready to kick the other painted canvas for it has nothing more to tell us the [gogh]’s painting begins its somber recitations at the very moment we have ceased history literature or poetry those bronze-gold sunflowers are painted they are painted like

[van] in nature nature it will [chaldea] in [mongolia] or ever told me that they no longer believe in the mountains [tibet] as a painter and nothing else [van gogh] adopted the methods of pure painting and never went beyond them i mean that in no other methods than those that painting afforded him a [gogh] will have given us an inkling of the nitrogen peroxide our bearings one fine day he decided not to surpass the motif [gogh]’s work has been seen one can no longer believe that there is have never been played without being literary i have seen [van gogh]’s face red


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