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unless you make it that way. without a slackening of intensity, to express Wan Gogh has portrayed himself in a
I noticed a lot of other things at the Van his feelings of abandonment. Until the pink considerable number of canvasses, and no
Gogh exhibition. The way he would start octopus slid into view in the foreground, matter how well lit they may have been, I
drawing so carefully sometimes, and then and the crows flapped like a storm out of the always have the painful impression that
get carried away by his feelings, and what wheat towards the dark sky. A horror haze someone has falsified the meaning of the
he was seeing and making. (Vine on a over the gold. No one pointed out the gold light that was needed to dig and map the
trellis behind a house.) How the prolific in time. way within him.'
DAVID ANNESLEY
flowing of his painting switched course Antonin Artaud, Van Gogh: the Man Suicided by Society.