The Birth of Detachment





14 Sunflowers in a Vase, by Vincent Van Gogh

Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, by Paul Gauguin

Who was the wildman?

What was abducted?



"In his pictures single patches of the brush
reveal themselves as an uncanny choice,
deciding the unity of a whole region of forms.
Out of these emerges a moving semblance
of a familiar natural world with a deepened harmony
that invites meditation."

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