Speed of Life

‘And when I painted landscape in Asnières this summer I saw more colour in it than before.’ Vincent van Gogh to his sister Willemien van Gogh, late October 1887 Walk through the Van Gogh Museum's exhibition 'Van Gogh along The Seine'. The museum informs us that - "In the 19th century, bridges and trains made it easier to visit places outside of Paris. And yet smoking factory chimneys increasingly dominated the horizon. This exhibition reveals how artists captured these changes in their artworks."  On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 13 October until 2023 14 January 2024. Music: Composed and performed by Remko Kühne Follow Remko Kühne on Spotify: https://orcd.co/followremkokuhne More thoughts on Van Gogh at Speed of Life: Van Gogh's Cypresses at the Metropolitan Museum of Art  https://greggchadwick.blogspot.com/2023/06/van-goghs-cypresses-at-metropolitan.html?spref=tw

Gregg Chadwick Jordaan Window (Coffee in Amsterdam) 25cm x 25cm oil on wood 2010 Late Light  by Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 - 2015) Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it cleaned away the mess we'd made. My father told me this, he told me it ran downtown and spilled into the river, which in turn emptied finally into the sea. He said this only once while I sat on the arm of his chair and stared out at the banks of gray snow melting as the March rain streaked past. All the rest of that day passed on into childhood, into nothing, or perhaps some portion hung on in a tiny corner of thought. Perhaps a clot of cinders that peppered the front yard clung to a spar of old weed or the concrete lip of the curb and worked its way back under the new growth spring brought and is a part of that yard still. Perhaps light falling on distant houses becomes those houses, hunching them down at dusk like sheep browsing on a fa...

Vincent Van Gogh Portrait of Theo Van Gogh Oil on Pasteboard, 19 X 14 cm 1887 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam The Van Gogh Museum in the Netherlands has announced that a small portrait by Van Gogh from their study collection is in fact a portrait of Vincent's brother - Theo Van Gogh. The painting has been recently restored and will go on view this week at the museum in Amsterdam. Portraits of Theo and Vincent by Van Gogh Much more at: Explore the Van Gogh Museum Using the Google Art Project Van Gogh Museum Website

Spend some time at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam today: Van Gogh Museum Online

Spent the morning alone in a room with Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam -first one in the door - glorious! Rijkswidget - A Masterpiece a Day Much more when I return ...

Van Gogh's Meeting Across the River? Tip from the Van Gogh museum

U2 Amsterdam July 21, 2009 , originally uploaded by u2log.com . U2 adds images of the protests in Iran to the live presentation of Sunday, Bloody Sunday. Update: U2 Now Scrolls Rumi Poem Azadi in Solidarity With Artists 4 Freedom More shots at: U2 Log