| Following in Vincent
van Gogh’s footsteps, we went to the South of France,
to Provence, Arles, St Rémy and the Mediterranean to
see whether the light there was any different from that in
Holland. Vincent van Gogh wrote the following lines in a letter
to his brother Theo in May 1888. ‘I’ve got two
new studies, a bridge and a main road. Many of the motifs here – as
types – are exactly the same as in Holland. The difference
lies in the colours. Wherever the sun glows you see sulphur.
What a green and what a blue!’ |
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