January
I sincerely wish you a very happy New Year.
I’m writing below a few names of painters whom I like very much indeed.
Scheffer, Delaroche, Hébert, Hamon.
Leys, Tissot, Lagye, Boughton, Millais, Thijs Maris, Degroux, De Braekeleer Jr.
Millet, Jules Breton, Feyen-Perrin, Eugène Feyen, Brion, Jundt, George Saal. Israëls, Anker, Knaus, Vautier, Jourdan, Jalabert, Antigna, Compte-Calix, Rochussen, Meissonier, Zamacois, Madrazo, Ziem, Boudin, Gérôme, Fromentin, De Tournemine, Pasini.
Decamps, Bonington, Diaz, T. Rousseau, Troyon, Dupré, Paul Huet, Corot, Schreyer, Jacque, Otto Weber, Daubigny, Wahlberg, Bernier, Emile Breton, Chenu, César de Cock, Mlle Collart. Bodmer, Koekkoek, Schelfhout, Weissenbruch, and last but not least Maris and Mauve.
But I could go on like this for I don’t know how long, and then come all the old ones, and I’m sure I’ve left out some of the best new ones.
Always continue walking a lot and loving nature, for that’s the real way to learn to understand art better and better. Painters understand nature and love it, and teach us to see.
Things are going well for me here, I have a wonderful home and it’s a great pleasure for me to observe London and the English way of life and the English themselves, and I also have nature and art and poetry, and if that isn’t enough, what is?
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Corot!!…There is a great artist, Mr Gogh!
Such a great site. I am bookmarking this page.
I don’t really know what to add but I’ve just found your blog and I think it’s a real gold mine! I do love Vincent Van Gogh and his history (and paintings, of course!) and I started painting (as an “amatrice”) by copying some Vincent paintings to please my mother at first and then I felt in love with this particular human being and his quest to something great, his compassion, humanity, doubts, feeling of having a part to play in evangelism, and so on.
Thanks for these letters. I am going to add your bloglink to my bloglist.
I want my friends and followers could feel like going and have a look here.
It’s great!
Being close to nature is the way of an artist’s life.
Enjoy yourself in the infinite green in the heaven, Mr Gogh!
Such a great site. I am bookmarking this page.
I don’t really know what to add but I’ve just found your blog and I think it’s a real gold mine! I do love Vincent Van Gogh and his history (and paintings, of course!) and I started painting (as an “amatrice”) by copying some Vincent paintings to please my mother at first and then I felt in love with this particular human being and his quest to something great, his compassion, humanity, doubts, feeling of having a part to play in evangelism, and so on.
Thanks for these letters. I am going to add your bloglink to my bloglist.
I want my friends and followers could feel like going and have a look here.
It’s great!