Thursday, August 26, 2010

Van Gogh on academic training

From a letter dated June, 1885:

“My contention is simply this, that drawing an academically correct figure, and having a steady, well-judged brushstroke, has little to do, or at least less than is generally supposed, with the needs—the pressing needs—of contemporary painting.”

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