{"id":11140,"date":"2021-10-17T13:33:43","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T11:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=11140"},"modified":"2022-04-26T16:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T14:52:50","slug":"on-haystacks-and-cornflowers-van-gogh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=11140","title":{"rendered":"On haystacks and cornflowers – Van Gogh (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From my last post<\/a>, The New York Times<\/em> has now published an article<\/a> on Christie’s forthcoming auction that will include three works from Vincent van Gogh; one of which is the Meules de Bl\u00e9<\/em> of which I wrote, stolen by the Nazis and only now returning to the public arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortuitously, the NYT<\/em> linked to The Art Newspaper<\/em> and the Van Gogh expert, Martin Bailey’s blog piece<\/a> which provides relevant and well-informed background to the van Gogh works being offered. My interest is now ignited by Jeune Homme au Bleuet<\/em> (1890) – The “Young Man with a Cornflower”, has its own particular narrative through place and time, that had “him” as a “her” – Jeune fille au bluet (the mad girl in Zola\u2019s \u2018Germinal\u2019)<\/em> – when it all began …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And when did it begin? Well, according to Virginia Woolf<\/a> “… on or about December 1910 […is when human character changed]<\/em>“. And, Van Gogh’s girl\/boy was right there at the legendary Autumn 1910 exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London, Manet and the Post-Impressionists,<\/em> curated by Roger Fry, about which Woolf spoke – where more than a word was created that defined a direction, but the visual artistic representation displayed that signaled an end and a beginning. And by the bye inflamed the establishment to various degrees of rage! In 2010, The Burlington Magazine<\/em> celebrating the centenary of the show, included an interesting piece<\/a> about the original exhibition catalogue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Young Man with Cornflower<\/em>
June 1890<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Though I am not adverse to haystacks, nor to cypress and olive trees<\/a>, this figure I do find captivating. Unlike the stolen haystacks, an image of Jeune Homme au bleuet<\/em> is in Wikipedia. It’s not at all a good reproduction so I post it here reluctantly – the colors quite wrong; the cornflower is blue, as is the blouse, the hair copper-red, the face pink and lips paler as if masked, the eyes emerald – so I refer you again to the very good Christie’s site<\/a>; for both the much better visual reproduction and, again, an excellent lot essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gender ambiguity is one aspect, but in these days of fluidity (making ambiguity somewhat obsolete!) I am more taken by the almost carnivalesque nature of the portraiture; reminding me of Pippi Longstocking<\/a> illustrations and depictions elsewhere – the essay description of “mischievous ragamuffin” seems more than apt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From my last post, The New York Times has now published an article on Christie’s forthcoming auction that will include three works from Vincent van Gogh; one of which is the Meules de Bl\u00e9 of which I wrote, stolen by the Nazis and only now returning to the public arena. Fortuitously, the NYT linked to … Continue reading “On haystacks and cornflowers – Van Gogh (2)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,254,22],"tags":[304,305,302],"class_list":["post-11140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-painting","category-virginia-woolf","tag-christies","tag-roger-fry","tag-vincent-van-gogh"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11140"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12963,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11140\/revisions\/12963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}