Comments on: Van Gogh's Letters,

Van Gogh's Letters,

jragon — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 19:59:44 -0800

Van Gogh's Letters unabridged & annotated. Searchable by topic or keyword.

By: fold_and_mutilate

fold_and_mutilate — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:21:46 -0800

Van Gogh's letters to his beloved brother are beautiful works of literature. Would that we, in this season, could dwell for a quiet while in the fields of Arles. Excellent link....thank you.

By: wobh

wobh — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:24:01 -0800

This is awesome. I've long been fascinated by Van Gogh and this resource is about as good as they come. The searching is excellent. The calandar is magnificent! Call me morbid but I've always wanted to read this one. The last two paragraphs are chilling. It seems so absolutely stupid but there's a cold sort of imitation rationality to it. And dispair of course. I sympathize (but not too much!). Thanks jragon. I'll be reading from these for a long while yet.

By: wobh

wobh — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:24:44 -0800

doh! "calendar" (sigh)

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:31:51 -0800

Thank you, jragon, for posting this wonderful link. Its a perfect example of "classic" MeFi.

By: scody

scody — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:32:09 -0800

jragon, thank you so much -- spectacular link. I remember seeing my dad getting teary-eyed reading a collection of Vincent's letters to Theo when I was young; since then I've never been able to hear "Starry Starry Night" without choking up, thinking not only of van Gogh's tragic descent into madness but also of my dad's quiet grief reading about it, all those years later.

By: Opus Dark

Opus Dark — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:42:28 -0800

Wow. Great collection and presentation. Not surprisingly, reading these letters makes me feel a trifle uncomfortable - like I'm trespassing, listening through a crack in the door - but still and yet, I keep clicking 'next'...

By: nthdegx

nthdegx — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:46:30 -0800

excellent excellent link

By: planetkyoto

planetkyoto — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 01:16:51 -0800

Van Gogh has always been my favorite, but I had only seen a handful of his paintings at the Norton Simon museum in Pasadena until this past October, when my wife and I went to a wonderful exhibition of the letters and hundreds of his paintings and sketches in Kobe. It was amazing to see humble postcards, crammed full of his beautiful script, the way he totally filled up the cards and letters. Some weeks later in early December one of the paintings we saw was stolen from the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

By: hama7

hama7 — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 04:54:17 -0800

Here's an interesting site about VanGogh and Gauguin called, unsurprisingly; vangoghgauguin.com

By: The Michael The

The Michael The — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:06:26 -0800

Nice link.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 07:24:20 -0800

Such a great link - thanks so much for it! I found myself wishing that there were more illustrated examples, and larger images, so that I could study the sketches and handwriting. The Art of the Illustrated Letter has letters to and from artists and writers of note, too, but again, the images could be larger.

By: matteo

matteo — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:00:18 -0800

There's also the excellent Altman movie, Vincent & Theo