As well as reading widely and compulsively, the painter wrote artful letters
FOR A new exhibition, Tate Britain has assembled more than 50 works by Vincent van Gogh. “Van Gogh and Britain”, which opens on March 27th, is the largest collection of his art in the country for nearly a decade, demonstrating how the post-impressionist painter “was inspired by Britain and how he inspired British artists” in turn. He studied the work of John Everett Millais and John Constable with interest. Literature was also influential.
Van Gogh admired authors for their ability to create arresting images with words. “There’s no other writer who is as much a painter as draughtsman as Dickens,” he wrote; he thought that Shakespeare’s “language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy”. Rembrandt was equated with Shakespeare, Delacroix with Victor Hugo.
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