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IDENTITY

L’amour dans la musique

Periodical / Journalism

Work Summary

L’amour dans la musique by Camille Bellaigue is an essay on love as represented in music. Bellaigue considers how composers express emotional and romantic experience through musical form and dramatic situations, using criticism of particular works to reflect on sincerity and feeling in art.

Evidence Summary

His immediate reaction is: 'What a need we have of the same thing in painting!'

Explicit transfer of a musical/literary-critical idea to painting.

CONTEXT

Author / Source

Camille Bellaigue

Work

L’amour dans la musique

Years / Period

23–24 Sep 1888

Van Gogh Relation

Read, Compared / Connected

EVIDENCE

Key Quotation

CONNECTIONS

Evidence Trail

23–24 Sep 1888 — Letter 686

Compared / Connected · Read / applied analogy

Van Gogh says he has read the article L’amour dans la musique.

Response: His immediate reaction is: 'What a need we have of the same thing in painting!'

Connection: Explicit transfer of a musical/literary-critical idea to painting.

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