Eternal Patience What is the Article about? This is an art review of Vincent van Goghs Portrait of a Peasant.

It discusses the background and history surrounding the article. Summary The painting, Portrait of a Peasant represents a radical departure from Vincent van Goghs conventional drawing technique. The technique embodied flattened, emphatic brushwork and potent, symbolist palettes. The artists technique helped the subject to appear humble and human. The artist intentionally compares the rugged landscape of the South with the vibrant emotions carried in the painting. Regardless of different interpretations related to the painting, van Gogh wanted the painting to be his epitome. Thesis Sentences
1. 2. The astonishingly original Portrait of a Peasant by van Gogh is currently exhibited in the Frick Collection thanks to an exchange program between the Frick and the Norton Simon museum. Escalier, the subject of the painting, was a former oxherd from Camargue. But he was a farmer in the Crau near Arles at the time of the painting. van Gogh was mesmerized by Escaliers real life embodiment of the heroic workers who had figured in the pastoral paintings of J-F Millet. Van Gogh was afraid that the audience of his painting would misunderstand his painting as an exaggerated portrayal than the collective portrayal of humanity in which he hoped to convey. When van Gogh left Paris for Provence in 1888, he tried a radically new technique that involves flattened forms, emphatic brushwork and potent, symbolist palettes. The painting is a proof that van Gogh learned to appreciate the rigorous terrain and brilliant lights of the Southern France while he initially imagined the landscape of Southern France to be a sweeping, panoramic paradise. Van Gogh intentionally chose the time in the summer to paint his subject because he wanted the subject to assimilate with the radiant colors of the environs. The Frick senior curator juxtaposes the facial features of Escalier with the rough terrain in the Southern France. The impenetrable stare of the subject grabs hold of our attention in the painting. THESIS OF THE ARTICLE: The unmodulated, saturated tones and vehement handling of paint that characterize the Pasadena painting (refers to Portrait of a Peasant. Norton Simon Museum is based in Pasadena, California (1st paragraph)) seem to reflect in raw pictorial terms what drew van Gogh repeatedly to his subject SUPPORT: Van Gogh wrote a letter about the subject of the painting to Emile Bernard. COUNTER: the conservators proclaim that the painting was carried out in a deliberate fashion thereby subduing the emotional impact exhibited in the painting. CONCLUSION: van Gogh wanted the painting to be his quintessential epitome.

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