1879-1880 · 2 Gogh.art nodes
Cuesmes
Cuesmes is the ground before the painter emerges: mining country, poverty, religious impulse and bodily labour form the depths of his later visual ethics.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
Borinage 1879
In the Borinage he lost his post, his direction and his language. About a year later he began, in earnest, to take painting as a road. What happened in between, he never fully explained.
- Synaesthetic Precision
- The Ferocious Reader
Miners in the Snow at Dawn
White snow, black figures. He lets shape speak before language does.
- The Ferocious Reader
- Synaesthetic Precision