Van Gogh - is a friend of women and children
Soon, the "Yellow Road" will welcome the first participants from Provence ... For me, as for many lovers of art, the history of Provencal towns is associated with the name of Van Gogh, the genius French-Holland painter...
"VAN GOGH IS A FRIEND OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN"
My exhibition under this name was held in 1995 already in Vilnius. It was an exhibition of copies of Van Gogh. All these years I have been promoting the work of Van Gogh, although he certainly did not need my support.
As an example I will give here a small fragment (about the painting by Van Gogh) from the book "The Green Sun" (Sergey Evtuhov, Vilnius 2011)
Yet again, looking through Van Gogh’s catalogue I suddenly
“stumbled” on his bedroom” – “Vincent’s bedroom in Arles”(Saint
Remy, September 1889).
Floor, chairs disposed on it and a big bed appeared to me
as a huge world, as a real galaxy! And if instead of the walls
with paintings I have seen sky sown with stars, I would not be
surprised. Trying to puzzle out my fantasies and to understand
such an unexpected painting’s effect, I understood that this
“room” is “living” by its own rules. All the objects are equilibrated
in an uncommon way.
You understand that, for example, in still-life a carafe on the
left side can be equilibrated by a vase with a flower on right
side. But it would be a static composition. While Van Gogh’s
“Bedroom” is composed differently. I would say that that Van
Gogh is a “dynamic equilibrium”. Vincent has a huge bed “driving
out” of the room through the backside wall, which is “hindered”
by the “driving out” objects.
Chairs and table are placed in such a way that they are
“keeping down” the huge honey dew bed’s pressure. The bed
itself reminds a train carriage whose driving direction is from
the spectator inward the room. A correlation between the
objects – bed, chairs – is a correlation between colour’s and
weight’s volumes. This is the reason why the objects are lined up
according to the interaction between them and not according
to the “perspective”. A deformation or a distortion of the object
(retract from the “right”) in favour of the general. And yet, the
painting is imposing how to draw a table or a chair. Not an
artificial devising – let’s put a chair in the corner! – but a precise
artistic calculation. In Van Gogh’s art, the “right” perspective
would kill all the life. This is why, for example, a chair in the off
angle is so small, that if you examine it separately, it seems to
be from a child’s room…
Works (copies of Van Gogh) from that distant exhibition, went to friends. I have only a self-portrait of Van Gogh, with a bandaged ear, because to my friends, he made a painful impression
Sergey Evtuhov, author of the project
