Vincent

Thank you for feedback on Vincent LostBoy1. He is painted with coloured inks.

strong and powerful portrait

Thank you for feedback trickyruby. Vincent Van Gogh is my favourite artist of all time and this was painted as a tribute to his genius.

Really lovely piece of work, u av done Vincent proud !

Well done…

ah yes,he was my insperation from the get go long ago,and i related to him too ,as i had a stress releted problem for a while, i loved his total art giving of him self to his first love, too bad he never had a lover who could have nutrured him but i guess that would not have happened he was who he was likeall of us in the end we are not echos, we are one of a kind if we dare?

Yes, I have always felt as if Vincent was a kindred spirit. I related to his emotional intensity and the fact that he was misunderstood by many. Visiting his Museum in Amsterdam I was overcome with the extraordinary beauty of his work and my eyes kept filling with tears. Yes I always felt sad that he could never find a lover who could love and nurture him. He had such an incrediable capacity to love and give. Thanks so much for your beautiful response to this painting I truly appreciate it.

Powerful portrait, Vincent would have been happy with it!

Thanks Lior. Your response means a lot to me and makes me happy that you think Vincent would like his portrait :-)

What a fine portrait Anthea. I would give anything to have met this man. xxxx

Excellent work Anthea, Yes this piece is full of emotion and strength!!

km.

Wow, wow dear Anthea…..what alive watercolour portrait of a genius artist ….a real great job you did …....TOP NOTCH !!!!!:-)

Outstanding Anthea!!!
well done:)

Hello Anthea, I am somewhat on a break from the Bubble, on the road a lot and busy, once in a while I check in and I saw your absolute genius portrait of the master, you did him justice, you gave it passion and fire, just stunning….........the poem is wonderful ….great work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what a wonderful tribute to this genius painter dear sis!! your words equal your painting to tell us your admiration for him ! i love them both ! have a beautiful sunday , with van gogh ’s soul inspiring you :):):)-xoxo

A masterpiece dear Anthea and Van Gogh would surely agree with me-this is an exceptional portrait and you really captured his likeness down to the intensity of his eyes….Bravo.
Now we come to the poetry which is another fabulous piece of writing it is filled with both powerful and also humorous emotion absolutely delightful reading.

Supurb on both counts image a writing

cheers Anthea it is good to have some old reference points to draw on

this is just amazing well done!!!

YOU NO HOW TO DIG DEEP, LOST FOR WORDS,, well done!!!Anthiea,,,jmc

years ago, birthday parties at our house included a game called “pin the ear on van gough”. my
children grew into magical artists, actors who could act “normal” in this utopian( literally, no where)society, while playing in the fields of the gods. evolutionarily, the adhd kids were the explorers enriching us. 90% mental ill thank god, there’s hope. saw a van gough exhibit, was struck by how small the pieces(no warhol). struggling, starving, sudden serendipity finds for us what we ignorantly ignore. substance abuse pales against neotribal social stigma. go, with both joy and reverence worship at the gates of creation. thanks for reminding us.

that’s a good portrait!
the poem really does accompany it well ;)

irony 101, vincent means conqueror. doesn’t say immediately, though.

so cool

that cyborg reference. sad technostate when our own machines no longer flip us the bird. they too are selfabsorbed. pace of change accelerates, evolution of psychologies and intracranial hardware, yet the same billionyearold stateoftheart biochemistry cleans our sewage. seems me, spacetime is unilinear. can’t even counterfeit a return ticket, only peer from the caboose.

Man this is brilliant. Did you do this????

hi Anthea, lovely work, me too a life time fan of Vincent, the ear incident has of late been in question – there’s some evidence that it may have been Vincent’s dear friend, the artist Paul Gauguin, that sliced Vincent’s ear off, and believed to have then been a long standing problem [hardly surprising] to be the reason behind the suicide.
You and I also share a concern for the effects of technical communications; fastest way to wreck relationships – time better spent getting real, the old saying families that play together stay together works.
And why young kids are given cell phones by their parents beats me, it’s a ticking time bomb.
As for photoshop images, I imagine there are a few shocks when people meet face to face ha ! Yet another trend downhill, inward thinking – obsession with perfection – what happened to character, the lovely real mobile happy natural face and the real body to go with it. Media greed has much to do with it, and false expectation. Personally I feel I’ve earned any marks that go with ageing gracefully and think there are more important things to think on than my latest new mark. All the money used for lifts tucks botox etc would go far towards real need. In the end, people seem to look like plastic. I imagine it could become quite a psycological obsession. What ever happened to revering the older person for their beauty of character and for the wisdom handed down to younger generations, and they do indeed need the encouragement.

I missed this one, Anthea. This is such a masterful work, and so inspired that I am thinking it is one your best (that I have seen). The poem is in itself a powerful piece. The two together are simply brilliant.

Simply put a masterpiece

Wow, such a beautiful tribute Anthea. I am also so impressed with the writing he inspired. I follow your train of thought….and I do feel that this is exactly why the Divine Feminine energies are returning….to balance out exactly what you wrote about. It is ones like you that are impacting the change….though it may feel slow, it is happening NOW!!!

perfect

Outstanding work instant fav!

i believe we are all children of the stars, star seeds you might say, but every now and then one breaks thru the atmosphere as a shooting star, a tektite you might say. our boy vinnie was one of them, insane? no…....he was a man of intense extremes, and passion carries a heavy burden, the burden to please and love, the desire to be overwhelmingly kind and to share what all along he shared, complete art from the heART….......over the years i have studied this unique being by all his art and reading his letters to his brother theo and Gauguin…...and also produced many portraits of him both with paint and also thru digital with just a few of the know actual photos of him…......picasso once said that “in the end there is only mattise”, i say on the end there is only our boy vincent van gogh….......besides this amazing portrait you created here your words are equally incredible….......bravo….....your bro vincent van crow

The way, in which you describe to Van Gogh,
It is wonderful.
Loving of the way that Van Gogh loves is not common, is not usual,
recognize that.
But, who is the insane, the one that do not know how to love, or the one that are able of cut an ear because it loves?

your free loose style and creatively delicious colors that run in control but with passion and imagination, this painting is brillantly excuted. was he insane with creativity or just mad, sometimes I feel that way grea work anthea cheers

absolutly beautiful poem and painting togther, even if they were seperte. – love the choice of colours – just beautiful

You’ve captured so much in his eyes! Pain, sadness, creativity, and a great deal of beauty. Wonderfully done, my friend! x

Anthea..you really got it with this one

I loved your poem. But to have you add a wonderful image to it – is almost too much beauty for me to handle…lol. Well not really, you always somehow manage to weave words around art – merging them into something extraordinary.
It is an Anthea trademark. lol.

such a beautiful work of art Anthea and a wonderful tribute to Van Gogh
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