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You think an ill picture well done and it is . In a sceptical age there is noth- ing people will not believe if it is only sufficiently ridiculous . The following extract from one of Van Gogh's letters is not without in- terest : A ...
You think an ill picture well done and it is . In a sceptical age there is noth- ing people will not believe if it is only sufficiently ridiculous . The following extract from one of Van Gogh's letters is not without in- terest : A ...
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He had no visions , no illusions ; his pictures must represent life - not the life of to- day , but a life just as real ... comedy as in Ava Caesar , or charity and compassion , as in the delightful picture of The Women of Amphissa .
He had no visions , no illusions ; his pictures must represent life - not the life of to- day , but a life just as real ... comedy as in Ava Caesar , or charity and compassion , as in the delightful picture of The Women of Amphissa .
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Most of his pictures are as full of light as those of the Italian pre - Raphaelites , but with the difference that ... A picture in which many ob- jects obstinately remain blurred in spite of our directing our attention to them must ...
Most of his pictures are as full of light as those of the Italian pre - Raphaelites , but with the difference that ... A picture in which many ob- jects obstinately remain blurred in spite of our directing our attention to them must ...
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