SOME WORK DOES NOT WORK........
After an exhibition, I usually come home and jump onto the computer as really inspired by whatever I have seen. This week there have been three exhibitions and frankly I have not spent too much time in any of them. At the most an hour. First of all….. More than a century after Van Gogh’s suicide,(1853-1890) the Musée d’Orsay is staging an extensive exhibition, with a provocative theme: Did society drive Van Gogh to shoot himself in the stomach at 37? Before his death in 1890, Van Gogh created nearly a painting a day. In little more than two months, some 70 landscapes and portraits where completed with a final burst of thick brush strokes of blue and yellow. The exhibition, titled “Van Gogh/Artaud: Suicide by Society,” revisits the theories put forth in 1947 by the French writer Antonin Artaud, who argued that Van Gogh’s work disturbed society, which shunned his art and provoked his despair and suicide. The central question of the exhibition is posed by Artaud: “Van Gogh, a madman? L