https://www.companyneedsmisery.com/2010/04/starry-night/ ramblings of a beast Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:41:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 https://www.companyneedsmisery.com/2010/04/starry-night/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:42:11 +0000 http://www.companyneedsmisery.com/?p=314#comment-15 I make light, often, of the struggle that I go through myself. I make fun, but I wonder who I would be if I were not the “me” who struggles?

]]> https://www.companyneedsmisery.com/2010/04/starry-night/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:54:18 +0000 http://www.companyneedsmisery.com/?p=314#comment-14 ZG, your last “Rambling” spoke to me. I’ve always been a lover of Van Gogh’s work… and most all the artists of his time. I always think about his brushstrokes. A professor of mine called them “frenied brushstrokes” and for some reason this always comes to mind when I think of Van Gogh or speak of him to my own students. I think his brush strokes were something of an extension of his frenzied, colorful, yet anguished life. His paintings make you “feel” the way he felt at the time he struggled with them. And I do think he struggled with his paintings just as he did in life.
But without struggle, what is the purpose?

]]> https://www.companyneedsmisery.com/2010/04/starry-night/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:19:05 +0000 http://www.companyneedsmisery.com/?p=314#comment-13 I’d like to comment on this…because I can. More of a clarification. When I look at a Van Gogh painting and the brushstrokes, I imagine each stroke as a thought…and lots of them. Like when I look at a Monet I see a LOT of thoughts lol. To me, Starry night is a way I feel sometimes…swishy and beautiful and this is sounding more and more like an LSD trip than anything so perhaps I should stop this clarification right here…

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