14 December
Rubens is certainly making a strong impression on me. I find his drawing immensely good, by which I mean the drawing of heads and hands in themselves. I’m utterly carried away, for instance, by his way of drawing the features in a face with strokes of pure red or, in the hands, modelling the fingers with similar strokes. I go to the museum quite often and then look at little else but a few heads and hands by him and Jordaens. I know that he isn’t as intimate as Hals and Rembrandt, but those heads are so alive in themselves. I probably don’t look at the ones that are most generally admired. I look for fragments such as those blonde heads in St Theresa in Purgatory.
I’m also looking for a blonde model just because of Rubens.
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I had better look at Jackson Pollock instead of fleshy Rubens.
Is so pretty this museum!!!!!! I like very much how Vincent painted the pictures! Ole Van Gogh!!!!!!!!!