Hope l’espoir 희망 希望
Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4″ (73.7 x 92.1 cm).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
“별이 빛나는 밤”을 2004년 베를린에서 열렸던 뉴욕현대미술관 특별전에서 봤을 때
난 한 동안 그림 앞에서 멈춰 서 있었다.
유럽에 있는 동안 보았던 여러 작품 중 이 별빛 앞에서 난 가장 오래 있었던 것 같다.
“반 고흐, 영혼의 편지”를 읽기 전까지는 고흐가 이토록 강하게 희망을 움켜쥐고 있는지 몰랐다.
절망 끝에 극단적으로 택한 자살에 대해서만 알았지,
그 결심과 정 반대로 그 누구보다 희망의 힘을 믿었다는 것은 몰랐다.
희망과 삶에 대한 믿음으로 캔버스를 채운 그의 작품을 다시 보고 싶다.
When I saw “Starry Night” at MoMA exhibition in Berlin in 2004, I was standing in front of this piece for a while. Among the numerous paintings I encountered while staying in Europe, I think I stopped longest looking at these star lights.
Before I read “The Letters of Van Gogh”, I didn’t know how stronly he held on to hope. I only knew about his suicide, an extreme decision after all the despair, but didn’t know that he sincerely believed in the power of hope more than anyone else did.
I want to see his paintings again, whose canvases were filled with his trust in hope and life.
(“Van Gogh and the Colours of the Night” at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam)
Fabrizio - ikol22:
No person in front of Van Gogh paiting doesn’t feel a sort of shiver. I personally love “WheatField with Crows” ( http://www3.vangoghmuseum.nl/vgm/index.jsp?page=3343&lang=en ) also because it is probably his last work… I am sure you visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam but if you didn’t yet, please do. It deserves the trip and will stay in your eyes for ever.
7 July 2008, 10:49 pmSunkyoung:
Right, that’s what many people claim his last work and, because of this assumption, I can feel his suffering. I have visited Van Gogh’s museum a couple of times when I was in the Netherlands but I’ll try to visit there once again during the exhibition linked above in the brackets.
7 July 2008, 11:33 pmDick:
Yes it’s beautiful, great post.
9 July 2008, 12:13 amSunkyoung:
Dank je wel, Dick! I’ll definitely make it to see the exhibition next year. Of course, I will always want to visit the museum over and over. Tot ziens!
10 July 2008, 12:56 am