[HN Gopher] Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book
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       Early Van Gogh sketches discovered in a book
        
       Author : brudgers
       Score  : 126 points
       Date   : 2021-06-27 00:47 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theartnewspaper.com)
        
       | Tepix wrote:
       | Well, i went to an Andy Warhol exhibition in Cologne and saw some
       | early sketches done by him. I was thoroughly unimpressed. His
       | later works were in a totally different league.
        
         | watwut wrote:
         | Sketches are not meant to be impressive. They are meant to be
         | learning or figuring out experience. That is the whole point of
         | sketch - to not make worked piece.
        
       | Moodles wrote:
       | I highly recommend to check out the immersive van Gogh
       | experience. It's quite beautiful and I'm sure Vincent himself
       | would love it. It's in quite a lot of cities across the US I
       | believe: https://www.mlive.com/life/2021/06/a-video-taste-of-the-
       | firs...
        
         | sva_ wrote:
         | I've seen this in Paris last year. It was nice, but also quite
         | a small space. Pretty crowded.
        
           | DonHopkins wrote:
           | It's beautiful, but all those people are such a distraction.
           | How about drones flying around with paintball guns and ink
           | jet arms that spray brushstrokes of colorful paint all over
           | everyone, so they look like part of the painting?
        
             | buzzwordninja wrote:
             | When I visited the exhibition in Kalmar Castle in Sweden at
             | some undefined time ago it was calm and quiet and people
             | sat on the floor or on little chairs.
             | 
             | I quite enjoyed it, would recommend.
        
       | nether1 wrote:
       | Only 37 years old when he died and having only sold one painting,
       | van Gogh sadly did not live long enough to see the extent of his
       | legacy - which includes his works now being some of the most
       | expensive in the world.
        
         | [deleted]
        
         | haunter wrote:
         | Is this a karma farming bot? New account, comment is copy
         | pasted from a blog [1] which otherwise only appear on .ru
         | domain malware sites [2]
         | 
         | 1, https://www.aruma.com.au/about-us/blog/8-fascinating-
         | facts-a...
         | 
         | 2,
         | https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Only+37+years+old+when+he...
         | 
         | My guess, either farming karma so they can later sell the
         | account or they can use it when people are buying upvotes
        
           | jermaustin1 wrote:
           | Does karma matter enough on HN to want to farm it?
        
             | sva_ wrote:
             | It matters if you want to build a downvote farm of bots to
             | manipulate the frontpage or order/visibility of comments.
        
       | prvc wrote:
       | He never really mastered figure drawing or perspective. His work
       | was perhaps the better for it: that rawness giving leeway for the
       | expression of intense feeling.
        
         | eru wrote:
         | Compare Bob Dylan's singing voice.
        
         | goto11 wrote:
         | If you look at his drawings and sketches you can see he
         | mastered realistic figure drawing and perspective pretty well.
         | His weird perspectives and figures in the later paintings is
         | clearly an artistic choice, not lack of basic drawing ability.
        
       | kleiba wrote:
       | Fanboy-ism isn't limited to the tech world.
        
         | DonHopkins wrote:
         | Who ever claimed it was, and why reduce the appreciation of
         | great art and artists to "fanboy-ism"?
        
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