About the picture exhibited in Van Gogh exhibition in national museum with this
comment “May be by Van Gogh”

Supplementary explanation about 4/23 article of my blog.

I found a piece of picture never believed by Van Gogh. I want to try to argue about this picture exhibited with comment “ cannot decide as original “ I want to say the reason why I think that picture is an imitation . Every one who loves Van Gogh should shout that “this picture is imitation !” The reason is this. First of all, we can see the technique of powerful spotting brush work only in the latest days in his middle thirties. We mustn’t forget this fact. Van Gogh had not used this way of painting style until this time. Everyone connect this powerful spotting brush work with Gogh , but this style was found after his long trainning , practis , and agony . He determined to use it as his really original way of painting .style. This powerful spotting style is estabished as Van Gogh’s style in 1887,88,89,durling three years, his last days before suicide. And we can see it in his works only in these days. Most of Gogh’s masterpieces are painted in these days when he lived in Ar les and San Remo. It is simple and decisive truth that this touch of painting is made harmony with the color of ground . Essence of Gogh’s Art is this. The brightness of dot makes harmony with level of brightness of ground everywhere. Dot painting is supreme his technique,so he never dot red or yellow on simple black ground unconciously. No painter should paint in such way using his supreme technique. I found many parts painted using these unconcious way of dot spotting painting style in that picture of flower in Gogh’s exibision. I think he placed each color of dot very slowly, never tapping quickly.
One more thing , when Gogh paints flower , he doesn’t paint flower it self. The reason why many people say he painted “ Not only physical existance” . He painted not flower (or chair etc.) but “life and fate and symbol from his standpoint of christian view". This is the essence of his masterpieces . But that picture in Gogh’s exhibision is “The picture of flower itself”. And much more worse, painted the beautifulness of flower and singing a song aloud. I couldn’t find the element of life , fate, christian view. In short, it simply celebrated the beautiness of flower , I felt.

But I’m a human being , and also Van Gogh. So I think he must sometimes paint dull work and failure . There is no artist who paint good works only . VanGogh too. There must be a lot of his dull works or failures in this world that he laughed saying “ This is my dull work.” There must be a lot of works that researcher say to himself, “Uuu……m, This is truly painted by Gogh, but I cannot recommend as a true work of Gogh” So I cannot believe me because I have only one image by seeing only his best works and masterpieces.If the man who paint that picture is Van Gogh. I want to make curators explain like this ,”This picture seems to be painted by Gogh . But if it is true , This picture must be his trial exersise or failure”. It’s the honesty for spectator. . Please show us skill ,curator of natinal museum have,insted of pending judgement, please.
(rewrited from my note in June 10.2005)