IDENTITY
Letter 686 — Music Criticism Applied to Painting
Arles, 1888
Content Summary
23–24 Sep 1888, Arles. After reading Camille Bellaigue's L'amour dans la musique, Van Gogh immediately says painting needs the same quality.
CONTEXT
Topics
Artistic Ideas, Music, Painting, Analogy, Literature
Materials & Pigments
Related People
Vincent van Gogh, Camille Bellaigue
Paintings
RESEARCH
Quotation
Research Focus
Van Gogh immediately transfers an idea encountered in Bellaigue’s music criticism to painting, making this a particularly clear example of concepts from another art form entering his thinking about pictorial expression.
Related Work / Relevance
SOURCES & EVIDENCE
Source Type
Letter
Source
Source Edition
Vincent van Gogh — The Letters, scholarly online edition (Van Gogh Museum / Huygens ING)
Source URL
Evidence Type
Primary Source, Scholarly Annotation
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