Looking for imaginative interpretations of perspective by Vincent van Gogh, I came across his Still Life with Plaster Statuette, a Rose and Two Novels. It reminded of someone else’s still life posted earlier on A&P that was critiqued for grapes that seemed to be sliding of an underlying cloth.
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I love Two Women Crossing the Fields because of how the women are integrated into the flow of the landscape.

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Finally, I found what I was looking for – Vincent’s Bedroom in Arles,

…to be suggestive here of rest or of sleep in general. In a word, looking at the picture ought to rest the brain, or rather the imagination.

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In his letter 554, van Gogh further wrote that

The shadows and the cast shadows are suppressed; it is painted in free flat tints like the Japanese prints. It is going to be a contrast to, for instance, the Tarascon diligence and the night café.

Here is The Night Cafe in the Place Lamartine in Arles.

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Do you have any comments on VVG’s use of perspective and shadings?