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[Kyle1]

I know why van Gough painted in swirls:

he was trembling as his paint dried all the way up...

[Gillie1]

@Kyle1 

Do you know why he liked yellows, stars, sunflowers and such?

Because the antidepressants he was prescribed in hospital made his perception of yellows more vivid. 

Are you painting atm?

[Kyle1]

@Gillie1  is that true, 'bout the yellows?

[Gillie1]

Yup 🙂

[Kyle1]

@Gillie1 

no, I don't paint.

I was being metaphorical...

[Appleblossom]

Ha ha @Kyle1 

Metaphorical ...

Colloquial ...

Watching paint dry ... takes a while ...

Interesting @Gillie1 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/aug/10/it-was-all-yellow-did-digitalis-affect-the-way-... 

[Gillie1]

@Appleblossom thanks 🙂 I have random facts floating round in my brain but can never remember the specifics. Or where I heard them. 

[Appleblossom]

I was genuinely interested @Gillie1 

oh random facts .... what sticks and wot does not... weary sigh. lol

[Gillie1]

@Appleblossom 

He is my favourite artist.

Not because he had a history of mental illness, which he experienced most of his life.

He reproduces the essence of whatever he paints.

He strips away the reality and gets to the experience of the scene, the spirit.

He was the first to really capture that for everyday people living everyday lives. they aren't all pretty but they are all moving.

[Kyle1]

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together"

Vincent van Gough

@Gillie1 @Appleblossom @tyme