Van Gogh on Art and Artists robert hughes

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"A Prisoner in the Caucasus" undermines the romantic conceptions associated with the region in particular and with war in general

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Van Gogh on Art and Artists robert hughes"In a picture I want to say something comforting as music is comforting," Vincent van Gogh confided to his friend and fellow artist, Emile Bernard. "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize and which we seek to give by the actual radiance and vibration of our colorings." Written in the years 1887 to 1889, these letters are among the most important and relevant sources of insight into van Gogh's