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van gogh

His eyes are as haunting as his paintings…

This image of Van Gogh was painted on the wall of a coffee shop in Amsterdam.  One of the highlights of my time in Amsterdam was visiting the Van Gogh Museum.  For me, there’s nothing like seeing an artist’s original paintings, and being able to see the brushstrokes and palette knife marks on the canvas itself.  Most people think of the painting medium as two-dimensional, but ask most painters, and they’ll tell you that it’s really three.

When I see how a painter transformed a blank canvas into a masterpiece, I, too, am transformed.  I walked out of the museum a different person than I was when I walked in.

Is this crazy talk?  Perhaps…which makes it all the more fitting when speaking about Van Gogh.