just a little note to self really:
after visiting the van gogh museum in amsterdam, i noticed that when van gogh painted nature - be it trees, flowers, grass, sky etc - was when he really started to abstract his brushwork and his colour combinations.
as if nature itself was the catalyst for breaking out of the conventional and striking off into new territory of possibility.
his contemplation of, and ultimate expression of, the true nature of the world around him, led him to develop new forms. forms that truly communicated the human interpretative feeling of nature rather than direct representational copies of nature.
ps - i only really say 'wrecked' vincent as this abstraction of nature seems to go hand in hand with his evolving slide into melancholy and emotional dissipation.
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