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An Immersive Experience Of Wonder With Vincent Van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything ~ Vincent Van Gogh
Let me state this upfront — I am not an art connoisseur. As a child, I hated drawing and later when I pursued higher education in a scientific field, and had no access or reason to study visual art as a requirement of my curriculum, I was pleased.
Yet there were times when I would feel a pang when I saw something beautiful, in nature or in a painting or photograph. Although I could not comment on the composition or technique or the use of light and brush strokes, I could tell when I was arrested by some unique quality of an artist’s creation.
Just as I stop to appreciate a deep insight or a lyrical sentence when I am reading, I do appreciate art. The reason I don’t write much about it is because I do not have the vocabulary for it.
There’s something about Van Gogh
Despite my ignorance of art and artists, I have been strangely drawn to Van Gogh. Over the years, I have been to several museums featuring his works, including Musee D’Orsay in Paris, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
While I don’t remember much of what I saw there, I do remember being mesmerized by Van Gogh’s colorful…
