As for me.
then slightly "far-fetched" element.
I wanted to write about the mirror - he took as part of the interior.
Though the mirror shows just what is, and not what you think you are ...

Buscador, good words about the fact that the figure is three -quarters of painting. The more I do painting , and not merely realism , the more I understand it .
 Van Gogh periodically studied here , there, plus communication short-circuited due to a family profession - the art dealership , with the major artists of the time , and , probably as a result of such communication , hellish work on self-education. He has all the money went to the sitters , who visited him could see a pile of drawings height of a table - try to draw as much from life. Almost every day , ready to canvas 70 by 90 , again with nature. He did not have genetic traits of the artist, but he has them . He had the talent of the writer , he wrote long letters , an artist's career that helped after death.

It said Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

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Van Gogh studied with his uncle, the Amsterdam Academy , a private academies in Paris, with other artists , at the Gauguin ex. I said no competition and competition , contention , the desire to do better standing next to or in a group.

Seriy, is that some topics are so abundant complilations that when multiocherednom looking at the work , if there is no gag reflex , then a persistent rejection. And if you like .. then what's to resist : take , rule and enjoy , fell on the soul <! - ~ 1 ~ -> .

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Lack of school - freedom of expression?
Free fantasy?

Freedom of expression and imagination occurs in humans. And it is a "school " this is not to blame . There huzhozhniki who find it difficult to break away from what they have been taught . They seem to compare their work with those who have been for them, " example " ... And there is no imitation. Here , rather , an internal self-control. They are in life, as a rule, are the same .. Others who have received the same education ( or had studied the examples of well-known artists ) , all the time in the search. They are not afraid to make a mistake , experiment . With color , shapes, lines . But do not forget the school , because the skill requires skill , and freedom - a fantasy. And one does not interfere . But no schools , few (or no ) will write a classic portrait . And, as a rule, this artist does not say - I do not know how. I'm not interested - this is his answer!

 And so in everything and always . What kind of self-control ? Look at the work of any artist school. All the work - the same.
Classic portrait - there are great photographers that are easy to make a great portrait in the classical style.
In short , I expressed my opinion , I'm against the school itself.
I'm for self-education !

Oh well . You say it to their children. " That's all I listened to for a long time , carefully and finally realized - well, you're all fools ! .. Main man to give birth. He that begetteth - thanks for that. And to reach all he has to . Here take me - drinking, smoking, and I say started at the same time ... " <! - ~ 7 ~ ->

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