Today is Vincent Van Gogh's birthday and I am sharing my Favorite Friday thing.
Although he was Dutch and not French, he did paint while in Paris. Due to my francophilian tendencies, I have a penchant for impressionist paintings. Many of the impressionist artists were French – Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Cèzanne, to name a few. Do I like them because they are French or do I like them and they just happen to be French? We'll never know.
My father replicates masterpieces for a hobby. This is my Favorite Friday thing, which happens to be a copy of a Van Gogh, which happens to hang in my living room.
It makes me smile whenever I look at it, because I love the painting and because my father painted it for me.
Click here if you would like to learn to pronounce Van Gogh correctly.
Click here if you would like to watch a beautiful video of Van Gogh's work playing to the music of Don McLean's "Vincent", also known as "Starry, Starry Night." Many thanks for this link, BairbreSine.
Here are a few more of my favorite Van Gogh paintings for you to peruse today. Enjoy!
Happy Birthday to the Master! I have that Sunflower's poster on my living room wall–my absolute favorite painting. And here is my favorite song to listen to while I look at the Van Goghs on the video.
Thanks so much! If I can figure out how to add it to my post, I will. It's lovely. Merci, merci, merci!
All you have to do is find it on youtube (google "Vincent" paintings youtube) and then copy and paste the address from the headers at the top of your browser that shows the URL or http address. Then push update (or pulblish on a post that hasn't been published) and WordPress does the rest. Easy peasy!
I think I've got it! Thanks again for the link. Merci!
I think I've got the link in the post now. Thanks for commenting.
I love his work…as I do most other Impressionists too. I especially love his irises and the starry nights paintings.
Irises, starry nights and sunflowers for me, too! Merci again!
Yes, very fortunate to have a gifted, giving father. Merci!