July 2009
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Dr Karanka’s Print Extravaganza Rencontres d’Arles (ish)
Dr Karanka’s Print extravaganza and FDS
To theo his brother, 5th of June 1888
“What Prissarro says is true - the effects colours produce through their harmonies or dischords should be boldy exaggerated. Its the same as in drawing - the precise drawing, the right colour - is not perhaps the essentail element we should look for - because the reflection of reality is in the mirror, if it was possible to fix it with colour and...
To his brother Theo, From Arles, 16th Oct 1888
“This time its simply my bedroom, but the colour has to do the job here, and through its being simplified to give a grander style to things, to be suggestive here of rest, or of sleep in general. In short looking at the painting should rest the mind, or rather the imagination”
thinking of...