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#Rembrandt creates high drama with a raging sea and tipping ship. #VanGogh does it with a cosmic cypress tree surrounded by heavenly orbs and a blue radiance. Both venerable Dutch masters evoked a sacred reality ever-present in their hearts and made evident in all their work.
#VanGogh's uncle was vice admiral of the Dutch navy and Vincent lived for a time with him in the Naval Yards in Amsterdam. In painting the sea Van Gogh paid tribute to his decorated uncle who was only one in a long list of important high ranking members of the Van Gogh clan.
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Contrast is a central aspect of a #VanGogh from a dark weavers cove to the blazing brilliance of a rising sun. Vincent united a vision of the finite with the infinite in his poetically-charged works. It is for this reason he called a "sacred artist" for the infinity in his art.
#VanGogh was able to transform a common country road into a dramatic experience- trees transformed into actors in a mystery play and dirt lanes into lines of poetry. Vincent invested daily-life with awe and elevated simple sight into exalted vision. He was a storyteller in paint.
William Blake and #VanGogh were visionaries of art and inspired by similar ideas. They used the Old and New Testaments of the Bible for source material and overt imagery. Both artists created cosmic works that exult Creation and art as expressions of godlike imaginative power.
From bouquets to flower-like stars of the "Starry Night" #VanGogh was captivated by beauty-- from the celestial to the terrestrial. His vision can be described as 'Incarnational' where the spiritual and physical are united. He weds the extremes of existence into hymns of praise.
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Monet and #VanGogh had vital connections to the Netherlands and reflected this in different ways.
Monet found Amsterdam a teeming city filled with sparkling canals and waterways. Van Gogh often focused on themes of labor and winter snows blanketing the lowlands.