{"id":711,"date":"2011-10-25T19:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=711"},"modified":"2011-10-25T19:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T19:28:15","slug":"van-gogh-parallels-and-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=711","title":{"rendered":"Van Gogh &#8211; (Parallels, Rhythm and Integration)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_712\" style=\"width: 791px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/PA024617-reduced1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-712\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-712  \" title=\"Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Doctor Paul Gachet - 1890 - 66 x 57 cm - 26 x 22.5 in - oil on canvas reduced\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/PA024617-reduced1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/PA024617-reduced1.jpg 781w, https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/PA024617-reduced1-246x300.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-712\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Doctor Paul Gachet - 1890 - 66 x 57 cm - 26 x 22.5 in - oil on canvas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Continuing from the last post, I would now like to turn your attention to Van Gogh&#8217;s wonderful brushstrokes and how they provide rhythmic movement for your eye, as well as very sensitive integration.\u00a0 The strokes connect the background and Paul Gashet&#8217;s coat with harmonious movement as well as form.\u00a0 How Van Gogh integrated the blues to read as one shape at first glance is masterful.<\/p>\n<p>Those books are fantastic!\u00a0 The yellow provides a fantastic pull and the pages are part of a rhythm of parallels which provide an oblique movement.\u00a0 Subconsciously, or not, your eye will move in the direction of the pages and the lower left arm.\u00a0 Also note how the plant is parallel to the upper left arm, another movement.<\/p>\n<p>Two more impressive considerations are the vertical leaf projecting from the glass, providing subtle structure for the composition.\u00a0 And those wonderful yellow strokes just above the line, running towards his ear, pull me briefly and gently from his Gashet&#8217;s gaze.\u00a0 Does your perusal pause there briefly?<\/p>\n<p>These considerations are all the more impressive as Van Gogh worked quickly, he was truly a great painter!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing from the last post, I would now like to turn your attention to Van Gogh&#8217;s wonderful brushstrokes and how they provide rhythmic movement for your eye, as well as very sensitive integration.\u00a0 The strokes connect the background and Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/?p=711\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,18,5,7,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.donfarrell.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}