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- Wormwood
- 150 papers re illness which is really all that needs to be said - Note: download this
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- Lead
- Biography
- should add that he was taken weekly to visit dead Vincent's grave = early pre-occupation w/ death of one's own identity. Have to remember where I read that.
- The school section needs to be rewritten - mentions that he was at a school for only one year at school & then somewhere else & then somewhere else, but should be consolidated and rewritten for flow. Go from general to specific.
- Are addresses for Goupil important? The page is large and probably will get larger, so let's decide which detail can go & what to keep.
- returned to England > from where? why? this is a rough para > v choppy & needs work (need to re-visit; can't remember what I was thinking here)
- structure > Goupil in England; then somewhere; then back to England for unpaid work in a school; assists Methodist preacher; back home to a bookshop but has a roomate?; to Amsterdam where he fails a test; to Belgium; back home; father considers an asylum; back to Belgium. Needs reorg.
- Moved to the Etten countryside with his parents - is this a new location for them? If not fix.
- Yes, this was a new location for them. I have the year in an article somewhere - I can find the ref for that.CaroleHenson
- Maybe too much detail about Kee - a bit more summary style?
- repetitive detail re Sien > daughter mentioned twice
- Sien's drowning > move to note
- why did the parents move so often?
- Parish assignment changes, but always to small towns (never an advancement) CaroleHenson
- Margot section needs more clarification; she wasn't enthusiastic but overdosed when the families opposed the marriage?
- Interest from Paris in his work - how? why? the anecdote about forcing himself on the model maybe moved into another para or something - structure
- Why did he move to Antwerpe?
- Loose teeth = rickets. Does the source support? Link?
- Antwerp - why was he treated by Cavenaile? org here > palette; drinking; exams; ill; smoking. At some point the illness has to be introduced and then specifically and clearly woven through throughout. I think introduce as soon as possible, but I don't know the details of when he began to show signs of illness. Also was he epileptic? If so, when did that begin?
- Monticelli book > clarify & integrate better
- "For months van Gogh worked at Cormon's studio" > entire para needs reworking
- Why did he move to Asniere?
- breather from brother and Paris, desire to paint the NW suburbs with Signac and Bernard. Rather than a "move", I think it was more of a visit. He left when he got into an argument with Signac's father. CaroleHenson
- Befriended Gauguin is topic sentence > then nothing re Gauguin but para about exhibition
- Moved to Arles > hoping for refuge from what?
- Paris city life, but also to move to a more sunny place for brighter colors, etc. CaroleHenson
- Move the Jeanne Calment reminiscence somewhere else - or better to delete I think
- "Yet he was taken by the local landscape" > another sentence beginning with a conjunction. Move to 1st para in section & then begin para w/ "His works from this period" .... as topic sentence & go to specific. Para needs reorg: light to colors to light to landscapes to an exhibition to an American collector to the address & cost of his living accommodations. All in one para!
- Organize living accommodations together > the boarding house; the yellow house
- Organize the work he did during these months together. ( I will have questions about this )
- Two sentence para needs to find a home > VvG gives a soldier lessons; McKnight introduces him Boch. How do these tie together. Or put them where they belong. Or lose the drawing lesson and shove into the Saintes- Maries page.
- Gauguin timeline needs work > waiting, Gauguin consents (sounds like he's on his way) but vG has to ask again - so smooth this out
- Decide how much to emphasize the illness. Did Gauguin cause it, or cause a flare up of something. Find sources for this! The ear cutting episode is so well known it should be well explained in my view.
- In hospital - again no clarification. What was the treatment? Diagnoses? May have to dig for papers on this. Check jstor
- Were the irises painted during this episode? the link is to hospital but dabbed to the hospital at arles article which seems important. That needs fixing & maybe something in the text that he painted in the hospital
- Floods damaged paintings comes out of nowhere. Nothing here about the prodigious output during this period and that the paintings were stacked up. Should add
- Back in another hospital - why?
- Transition needed - he's in the asylum but somehow manages to place his work in an exhibition. Explain. Also not following re Lautrec - demanded honor from VvG or on his behalf?
- Separate para for White Almond Blossoms
- Lots of literature on Gachet - he probl needs a better introduction; he just suddenly appears
- Maybe replace one of the images w/ Wheatfield w/ Crows. Interesting to see his final work
- "Recently acquitted from the hospital" > he's been to an exhibition; he's been to Paris. Has he been hospitalized again?
- Mental illness finally in last section. Needs to be introduced early on & woven all the way through & then lose this section completely. We can only understand the man by following the sources re his illness. The illness defined the man. Whether the illness defined the art is up to the critics & the page needs to reflect what the critics say
- Should prob also mention what happened to his siblings > similar to the treatment in Hemingway. Check to see if in a note or a separate para or how ….
- Working procedures
- Good - needs a copyedit. Maybe link the Delft university & the x-ray technology?
- Legacy
- Posthumous fame
- A little factoidy, but can take a lot expansion. Tons of expansion. Maybe use Ernest Hemingway's legacy section as template. Somewhere we need to say that he was the best the best the best. Gotta say it, gotta find plenty of sources to back it up.
- Influence
- Can prob be expanded or combined with fame. At the moment the Bacon section seems overly weighty but will change if more is added; still, might need a trim.
- Refs
- Ref check consistency
- Why a separate source section for biography & art? Should be combined and anything not used deleted. We need to decide if we want a further reading section - I say no because they're subjective & don't like wiki to be used as a bibliography/library but will defer to consensus.
- Move all book refs that are formatted in the text to the sources section, leaving only author/ date/ page in the text
- bare urls
- fix the bolded title url
- almost 200 refs - yikes! can we bundle?
- some notes formatted in the ref notes section; some in the refs. Move all notes to notes.
- General
- Check the sourcing. I think maybe an over-reliance on primary sources (the letters) & not enough on secondary.
- How to reorg?
- Needs a strong narrative & themes. Preoccupation with death; illness; self-abuse; religion; art art art.
- MoS
- Nonbreaking spaces?
- Dates
- Dashes
- Replace seasons with months where ever possible
- The Hague > the Hague? consistency
- Consistent capitalizations > impressionism vs. Impressionism
- Check for duplicate links - seems to be some overlinking
Notes edit
- Erickson
- Van Gogh born in a period of religious skepticism & re-evaluation. Emerson: "Young men were born with knives in their brains" & "The faith that stand on authority is not faith" (look this up in Emerson - Nature? ). 3
- At that time faith = inward reflection. "The religious person of the nineteenth century became the spiritual wanderer" according the van Gogh himself "A stranger on earth". 3
- "And in this van Gogh was a man of his times .... part medieval mystic, part modern seeker." 3
- Robert Hughes (The Portable van Gogh)
- in hospital his treatment seemed to be no more than cold baths & his illness is undetermined. 8
- when he fell into despair and suffered hallucinations he could not work 8
- Hughes believes that he was in a state of "extreme visionary ecstasy" 8
- Of Starry Night, Hughes writes that van Gogh saw (?) and painted the stars as bringing heaven to earth and "completing a circuit of energy throughout all nature" 8
- He was fascinated by cypresses and wrote, "it astonishes me that they [cypresses] have never been done as I see them" 9
- According to Hughes, "van Gogh's sense of an immanent power behind the natural world was so intense" that he brought to the actual places his visions in his paintings though what he saw was specific to him (???? - think about this) 9
- Hughes - he isolated specific aspects of nature of symbols 9
- He used rhythms w/in natural forms - juxtaposed near/far which he saw as the "continuous thumbprint of creation" (not to self - this so Emerson, try to find) 10
- Hughes writes that he saw relationships between disparate objects such as olive trees and limestone and that "the macroscopic finds its echo in the microscopic view" 10
- Hughes: "Nature was to him both exquisite and terrible. It consoled him, but it was his judge. It was the fingerprint of God, but the finger was always pointed at him" (note to self: I think this is what his life and art was all about) 11
- Symbols - the sun = god; yellow = god & emotional truth; (yellow is difficult); the sower = god being sown on earth 11
- Hughes - "his paintings have nothing to do with orthodox iconography" 11
- The Reaper = death reaping humanity. VvG wrote of it - "I find it strange that saw like this through the iron bars of a cell" 11
- 2 boarding schools - Tilburg and Zevenbergen; French, German, English. Left school for unexplained reason and did not finish. 405
- became the youngest salesman w/ Goupil in 1869. Traveled & was exposed to art & artists. Began writing to Theo in 1872. 405
- Transferred from The Hague to Brussels to London to Paris. Became disinterested in selling art & became interested in bible study. Resigned Goupil 1876 & began teaching in Ramsgate (how did he get from Paris to England?) 405
- Sund
- started w/ Goupil at 16 & in 6 six years worked for them in The Hague, London and Paris, "this is such a splendid house" he wrote when he began 660
- Goupil sold paintings by the Barbizon School artists & The Hague School artists - gave him an early appreciation for landscapes 660
- The firm dealt w/ prints about which he learned and which he collected - very much influenced by Millet & his Sower 660-61
- Believed Millet painted the "doctrine of Christ" although not in a biblical style 663
- By 1875 (having worked in London & been transferred to Paris) van Gogh had little interest in anything except reading the Bible , Thomas a Kempis & Paul Bunyan. 663
- He wasn't upset at his dismissal from Goupil in 1875. He taught the Bible at two schools in England and embraced the Evangelical movement = personal devotion, good works, & spread the Word. 663
- Religious training May 1877 > July 1878 Amsterdam & then to Brussels to Evangelist training 663
- Assigned himself to the Borinage & lost faith in organized religion when he was asked to leave for being unprofessional > decided to become an artist in art found his "pulpit to God" 663
- He decided he could teach himself to be an artist & began by copying 664
- December 1881 to September 1883 he studied with Muave at The Hague but left b/c he missed the countryside. Went to live with his parents in Nuenen. Stayed there for 2 years. 665
- After painting The Potato Eaters he eschewed accuracy and instead strove for a "modern" style 666
- While in Paris, from Signac he learned a high-keyed palette 666
- Arles > represented another return to the country from the city 666
- In Arles he paints/copies Millet's The Sower - in color. 666
- VG believed religious art in France to have died & he read and liked Theophile Thore who wrote: "Art ought to be as human as possible. The more an artist has transformed exterior reality, the more he has put himself into his work, the more he has elevated the image toward the ideal that every man hides in his heart, the closer he has come to the poetic." 668
- VG considered Christ to be the symbolized by the sower - sowing life. He also believed the symbolism of the sower to = the simplicity of Christ vs elaboration. He added color as symbols w/ sun in the background & thought of it a "satisfying expression of his own Christianity" 668
- Starry Night = abstraction, (which he learned from Gaiuguin). A landscape w/ an amalgam of scenes that he admitted were exaggerated. Church = salvation; cypress = memento mori; townscape = life; sky = celestial god. 672
- The Reaper also symbolizes death at a time when he was thinking of death (LT 604) 676
- After a year at St. Remy, VG decided his disease (?) was uncurable. In May he moved to Auvers-sur-Oise - to be closer to Theo who was ill & suffering financially (careful - close paraphase here). In July, in Auvers, he shot himself. 674
- VG's "harvest arguably was his work" 675
- Hulsker
- Info on early biographies written > to go to the Letters page when written 3-4
- Hulsker believes important that his father was a minister & that he grew up in a rural village 5
- V. oldest child. Hulsker doesn't give credence to theory that he was influenced/effected by stillborn V. born a year earlier > these stories originated in Jo van Gogh's early bio & her son Vincent who wrote an intro to a later edition of the letters 5
- father 2nd generation minister; mother 33 when married. Father educated at a Latin school & studied divinity in Utrecht. 5
- Siblings = Anna 1855; Theo May 1857; Elisabeth (Lies) 1859; Wilhelmina (Wil) 1862; Cornelius (Cor) 1867 > mother 47 when Cor born 7
- Parents wanted the children educated; even the girls were sent to boarding schools 7
- Father had 10 siblings; mother 8. Uncles Hein, Vincent & Cor = art dealers 8
- Zundert a town of 6000 - the prot. congregation on 120 - 130; small house, many children, often outdoors 9
- V's schooling = village school (boys made him course); governess at home; boarding school briefly in Zevenbergen & then to secondary school in Tilburg (State Secondary School King Wilhem II) 10-11
- At secondary school v bright; skipped preparatory class. Studied Dutch, German, French, English, arithmetic & geometry, history, geography, botany, zoology, calligraphy. One of 5 of 10 students to pass exams for next class 11
- Left Tilburg for unknown reason in 2nd yr March 1868; stayed home for a yr & then July 1869 sent to work at Goupil at The Hague. 16 yrs old. 11
- Boss = Tersteeg. Creates album w/ drawings for Tersteegs young daughter > juvenalia 14
- Living at The Hague studies art informally w/ uncles, visits galleries & exhibitions, etc. To finish training Goupil sent him to London via Paris, March 1873 14
- Prob only a few weeks in Paris & then in London. 15
- Goupil London dealt mostly in reproductions, prints, engravings, illustrations (to myself - he had to have met the best-known illustrators & engravers in London ) 16
- Finds rooms in outskirts of city - more rural - with fam named Loyer who have a small school for boys. Falls in love w/ landlord's daughter - she rejects him. 18-19
- Hulsker believes the Ursula Loyer rejection another event that was overdramatised by early biographers. Sister Anna joins him in London; school teacher 20
- October 1874 transferred to Paris for a few months; back in London Jan 1875 until May 1875 24
- Letters of fall 1874 to spring 1875 begin to reflect preoccupation w/ religion; back in Paris May 1875 where he begins to buy/collect religious prints/engravings 25
- Father transferred to Etten Oct 1875 26
- Quits, fired from Goupils Jan 1876 - perhaps because he visited parents in Etten xmas 1875. Looks for work in England 27
- Accepts job (unpaid but w/ rm & board) at boys school in Ramsgate; immediately begins to look for paying job. Wants to become evangelist; father opposed b/c not enough education; needs Latin school and divinity school = 8 yrs. No money. 36
- Paying job in Ilseworth - asst to schoolmaster; asst teacher; asst preacher; teaches boys bibles stories & fairy tales 38-39
- Writes Theo he had preached a sermon. Happy. But he misses home. 41-42
- According to Hulsker characteristics during this period = warm/sensitive/faithful/v smart and knowledgable. 43
- Returns home - Etten - xmas 1876 & decides not to return to England; finds work w/ bookseller in Dordrecht 47
- Duties include bookkeeping, many long hours, fills wall in room w/ religious prints (because he had them or b/c of religion or both? needs context) 49
- 3 churches on sundays 50
- Wants to be minister; but still - many yrs of study; no money. consults w/ uncles - one uncles believes he shares his father & grandfather's calling but sees little hope w/ only 1.5 years of secondary school 51-52
- Parents finally agree - to Amsterdam to study April 1877 53
- Pomerans
- Good timeline for skeleton facts xxvii-xxi
- Named Vincent Willelm after both grandfathers 1
- Southern Netherlands = mostly Catholic 1
- Sent to Zevenbergen @ 11; then to Tilburg 1
- 1873 - Asks Theo about exhibitions in Brussels & exchanges views on artists; advises Theo to smoke a pipe as tobacco was a "remedy for suicide" 4
- In London visited many galleries and listed artists who interested him. Didn't like English painters except John Everett Millais and Turner. Didn't mind Salon painters, taste seemed inline with employers; read a lot - Keats & Michelet. 5
- 1874 - parents move to Helvoirt - Vincent visits 9
- He & Anna had to move out from the Loyers b/c he wanted Eugenie/Ursula to break engagement 9
- He became gloomy in London after the Eugenie/Ursula episode & father arranged transfer to Paris. In Paris he lived in Montmarte & began to enjoy himself, attended the Salon, the Louvre, went to various musuems & galleries. Went to an auction where he first saw Millet's work > greatly affected. 8-10
- Prints he had > artists from Hague and Barbizon schools, Rembrandt's "Lecture de la Bible" 10
- In Jan 1876 asked to leave Goupil on April 1 - he read voraciously during this period: Hans Christian Anderson, Longfellow, George Eliot, Heine, Jules Breton, the Bible. Bought a few Millet prints before leaving Paris. 15-16
- According to Pomerans Stokes asked him to come to Ramsgate to teach; also according to Pomerans, "A letter to Theo at the end of May betrayed the painter's eye with a beautiful description of a storm off the Kent coast." 16
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