Apart from doing the Bridal Waltz at weddings, I think my days of waltzing and fox-trotting are mostly behind me ?Hey! You can dance if you want to...
Edit: crap, wrong Empirial country.
Van Gogh
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The pipe shop owner was probably annoyed with Van Gough...
Oh Vincent you’re a nice guy, but must you constantly bring me one of your “worthless” paintings to pay for your debts? When are you ever just going to buy my tobacco? I can’t keep doing this forever...
Oh Vincent you’re a nice guy, but must you constantly bring me one of your “worthless” paintings to pay for your debts? When are you ever just going to buy my tobacco? I can’t keep doing this forever...
"Hay look man... I can't pay the bills with a pretty picture. Ok, crap, here's some 1Q. Go have a starry night, SCRAM!!"
For impressionist fans, do yourself a favor and read Christopher Moore's "Sacre Bleu: A Comedy D'art".
Author spent about 2 years researching for the book. A great mix of period art history and outrageous humor.
Author spent about 2 years researching for the book. A great mix of period art history and outrageous humor.
I love Christopher Moore’s work... except for Noir, but everything else is great.
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Van Gogh remains my favorite painter with Monet. I have seen both of their respective work in exhibitions and have been, simply put, amazed.
Yeah, I think he pushed that out for some quick cash.
I read Biff years ago and enjoyed it. I'd forgotten about Moore, so another perk from this thread. Just ordered Sacré Bleu and Fool.
I even like his humor and storytelling in his monsters and vampire stories. He really knows how to bend a mythology and make it funny and entertaining... and provoked thought.
Island of the Sequined Love Nun was a fav for me.
The origin of that one makes it a very cool song. It was a slap in the face of the establishment for banning pogoing in clubs, the forerunner of slam dancing and mosh pits.
I've always loved this scene from Doctor Who when Van Gogh got to see the future appreciation of his work.
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Muskrat Love is a terrible song. As a retired sound technician I still use it as the finest example what a close-in pre-amplified ribbon microphone can do to project intimacy... Toni sounds like she is sitting in your lap singing to you (just ignore the words...)
It’s a beautiful painting ?? an interesting piece of history.
It’s a Van Gogh and the tobacconist should have had a lot of reasons to preserve it as an heirloom.
Was it an investment opportunity lost? I don’t know, because the amount of debt is unclear. Let’s do some hypothetical math to analyze it.
It was gifted in 1885 and sold in 1996 at 552,000 pounds
Assuming a 8% rate of return, and 111 years, 107 pounds would be 552,000
It is unlikely Van Gogh’s tobacco debt would be 107 pounds, so the tobacconist would do well to hold on to the paining. However it is not an astronomical return, given the investment horizon is 111 years
Edit: I ran some more hypothetical scenarios. With a realistic debt of 5 pounds, it only represents 11 percent return. Good, but nothing unexpected
It’s a Van Gogh and the tobacconist should have had a lot of reasons to preserve it as an heirloom.
Was it an investment opportunity lost? I don’t know, because the amount of debt is unclear. Let’s do some hypothetical math to analyze it.
It was gifted in 1885 and sold in 1996 at 552,000 pounds
Assuming a 8% rate of return, and 111 years, 107 pounds would be 552,000
It is unlikely Van Gogh’s tobacco debt would be 107 pounds, so the tobacconist would do well to hold on to the paining. However it is not an astronomical return, given the investment horizon is 111 years
Edit: I ran some more hypothetical scenarios. With a realistic debt of 5 pounds, it only represents 11 percent return. Good, but nothing unexpected
"In order to do good work you have to eat well, be well housed, have a screw from time to time, smoke your pipe and drink your coffee in peace.“
I really like this quote. And, if it is true then it explains why my work is subpar these days.
I really like this quote. And, if it is true then it explains why my work is subpar these days.
I like Van Gogh's art, I like him as a person, and I like my Ser Jacopo Picta Van Gogh pipe!
Don McLean wrote a beautiful song about Vincent Van Gogh
Wow, everyone is so generous with their VVG appreciation. I feel bad for the guy: he was a total failure in almost every aspect of his life, he was a failure in art during his lifetime, most likely he suffered from mental illness or some chronic condition (that led to things like his being hospitalized and cutting off his ear. Hard life. Also find his work wildly over-rated. It has become a tragic commonplace in the "Story of Art History" that if a previous period hated someone's work it was because they were too stupid (or insensitive, or aesthetically challenged) to recognize it. Really, all those people who saw VVG's work at the time were just so out of touch and didn't understand his genius? Or is it that his work, so woefully thought of at the time, fit in more when abstraction came into vogue? Or that it is always a great ego stroke when someone can say, "Well, NOW we know..."
And, yes, I think I did just coin the phrase, "aesthetically challenged."
Sorry, sorry: back to pipes.
And, yes, I think I did just coin the phrase, "aesthetically challenged."
Sorry, sorry: back to pipes.