Pictorial letters: van Gogh

The portrait the human being that we can’t know now, as Vincent van Gogh(1853-1907) a painter very famous, that has found his  vocation for the painting after together works, as the merchant, preacher and other, but we can know him trough the letters, we can know his wit, that was very complex; the first of these clues is a letter to his brother, Theo, that has endowed Vincent in his country, Dutch and board, in France, when he in year 1880 by now lover of painting, he discovered the sun in years 1886; anyway in this letter he says: “Dear Theo, you are almost extraneous…”it is a sign of psychotic withdrawal ; and this opinion is held from a step of this letter: “For this I am convinced that is very better and more logic to take is to go away as I not exist”; This detachment is motive  for confirm my opinion, because also in a room is possible paint and with other persons, and the following of this letter we can understand the will, is a need of family that shows also an weakness  of character, very important, and this confession is very meaningful: “I am an instinctive  man that makes things more or less rational, and after I repent”;  it is the instinct that he has described summery after.. But Vincent expressed also the will of new because he confesses that he wanted read, almost vital  need, and for the painting: “When I was in other environment  of artistic things, you know that I have took for that environment  a passion, that became enthusiasm...”; the necessity of novelty is clear in this step: “But what is your sake? You would say; it is clear very slow and certainly, as a sketch and the sketch become a painting, gradually, we work intensely, gradually, the first idea is in depth…”; it is the need of novelty , because during the creative process, the new evolution comes always. But some from same letter  emerges also a capacity of Vincent of psychological analysis: “Now one motive for I am an inadequate for motive that  I am during years inadequate, it is simply because I have different ideas of those of lords that give the labor to the guys that think has them. It isn’t simply of cloth…”; the capacity of Vincent of analyze herself  and also other ids evident. The Dutch wit of merchant is in this step: “After is other type of idler, idler compelled, that is consumed  from deeply from a great desire of action and that makes not something, because can’t make it…as a bird in the cage that must be there, other birds can say about him that he is idler, but he would go out”. This letter is a document of personal wit that confesses also the very unknown, and certainly trough the painting we can’t know.

Alessandro Lusana