What if the Young Peasant in a Peaked Cap Spent the Afternoon With Vincent Van Gogh Drinking Absinthe?
I was in airport for three decades, mostly traveling for work. While I got used to the long hours of wait and delays, it was never a pleasant experience. So, I read and wrote, but also developed some routine habits to make the hours pass faster. One of these habits was to watch people, something that has always be of interest to me as a street photographer. And, to add some excitement, I would look at a person while in profile and try to imagine how he/she would look in portraiture pose. Over the years I developed a certain intuition and did translate a profile to a full face quite acceptably. A few days ago I was reading a review of how epilepsy and substance abuse had influenced Van Gogh’s life outlook and his paintings. There were a series of his paintings used to show the progression of his style but also the effect of digitalis and alcohol use/abuse on his physical health, and consequently on the abstraction/dissociation found in his paintings over the years. The ...
