To speak of the healing qualities of art, nature, colour and beauty, is to miss the mark profoundly when displaying an artist whose experience of life was so unremittingly bleak. While art and colour may have brought meaning to van Gogh’s life, it offered little by way of solace. It takes a very adept capitalist sleight of hand to turn his story into a lesson on “healing.”
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What sets this exhibit, now open at the OKPOP building, apart from the other two: integrating facts from the artist s life and quotes from his own writings.