Image: View of the Church (here)
The Prose
The beauty of Autumn is in the anticipated change of visual rapport of man to nature.
It alleviates the extremes of sweaty Summer on two fronts.The reduction
progressively of the warmth of the weather to the progressive change of the
visual greenery to the copper brown
The beauty of Van Gogh is also on two physical aspects that impact hard on the
consciousness. They are the wavy lines and also the tendency to fill the whole of the
canvas with such a wavy spectacle.Lesser known or otherwise, this masterpiece
can immediately be recognized as that of the old master's on account of the
two characteristics.
The other that leaves imprints on the mind is the signature facet of the
sunflower as a subject. Van Gogh perhaps wants to maintain the adherence
to hues of yellow,orange and gold apparent in the above masterpiece and
in many others. The yellow tallies also to that of the sunflowers' colors.
Van Gogh's still life of sunflowers is a stimulant to the art scene
most profoundly accepted.
Image: Three Sunflowers (here)
The Haiku
Strokes from a master's
hand to relinquish burden
of talents bestowed
For Bjorn's hosting at d'Verse - Haibun Monday #3 and
Kerry's The Tuesday Platform at Real Toads
I love the master painter's use of colors, so lush of the season ~
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining Haibun Monday Hank ~
So well done, Hank.
ReplyDeleteI love your Haibun and all that you shared about Van Gogh~ He was amazing! I love how there is such a fluid motion in his approach~
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Hank on a fine post.
ReplyDeleteYvonne.
The artist's wavy patterns are fascinating. I really like your haiku and allusion to van Gogh's mental burden...of genius!
ReplyDeleteThe wavy patterns makes the field look like a river I first thought when I saw the painting; a masterpiece indeed and love that you added one of my favourite pieces he did le Touronesol, of course :)
ReplyDeleteOh the contrast between the two paintings tied to the artist's personality... well done
ReplyDeleteHe sure knew how to capture whatever he wanted to.
ReplyDeleteSmiles.. my friend Hank..
ReplyDeleteLovely Art science
interpretation
of what
Van Gogh
might have
been THINKING
of in his artful
endeavors here..
but most likely
i feel.. that he
just let it ALL go..
like that
Ice Princess
from Frozen..
and like in that
video of song
if you've seen
it.. the golden
blue swirling
of nature's truth
in spiraling way
becomes
the art
in painting
similar as dance
free style like the
Ice Princess does too...
Essence of Art
is in
just doing it Air..
PS..
it's like the magic
level of a modern
video game
that never
exists
online..
outside of
the human mind..
and body too..
of course..
as one..
when expresSinG
SpiRit as such in ART..:)
Your haiku sums the subject up very well.
ReplyDeleteI do so like this take on the prompt - a journey through the painting and colors.
ReplyDeleteNice, Hank. Van Gogh is one of my impressionist artists. You spoke well of his technique of painting. I also like Henri de Letrec-Toulouse for his rendition of human forms and Monet for his active-sans-people landscapes. We spent a week in St. Remy which is home to the still standing sanitarium where Van Gogh admitted himself after cutting off his ear.
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Very nice, Hank. I enjoyed the "lesson" on the different aspects of van Gogh's style.
ReplyDeleteAn informative read and beautiful haiku.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed both your prose and haiku.
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