Coloring Book, page 13

Libby and I went to see the Van Gogh drawing show at the Metropolitan Museum last month. A very large exhibit with breathtaking drawings, the show is a wonder. It's in his drawings that you can see the true genius of Van Gogh's drarftsmanship. The vocabulary of lines, dots and squiggles is awesome. This is a late work and it's one that goes almost completely abstract. I stood in front of it trying to replicate the notation of the marks which read like cell division gone wild. For me this work is a triumph of Van Gogh's mind over matter. It's an exuberant work in which the artist has merged himself with the landscape he loved through his complete almost ego-less mark-making. See flickr for the original.