While visiting Paris, I was staying in the Hannah Arendt Square.
This I really appreciated.
I like her a lot, but she was v. much a product of her time.
Her political thought is very important; but her work vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the “banality of evil” (in her exposure to Eichmann’s trial) was more of an accident.
Note: This is the 2nd part reviewing London’s NG’s Van Gogh exhibition. See Part 1.
Room 3 — “The Yellow House: An Artist’s Home”
The third theme of the exhibition concerns his time in Arles.
Arles was a tiny little town in Van Gogh’s day. Literally, a few houses and a railway line. The yellow house (below) was rented by van Gogh in early 1888. By September, he had bold plans to turn it into a modest “artist’s home” and commune for his artist friends from Paris. He used his major paintings as decoration for the house.
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Awesome.
Quite possibly, my favorite painting of his.
That’s the constellation of Ursa Major over the River Rhone at Arles.
The canvas overwhelms the senses with its immersive beautiful serene atmosphere.
“And it does me good to do what’s difficult. That doesn’t stop me having a tremendous need for, shall I say the word — for religion — so I go outside at night to paint the stars, and I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.”
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After a few years of having an obscure name for my blog & URL; I’ve decided to “upgrade” it to something more catchy and a bit more “me”.
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