Got the Muse in My Head...
I saw this article yesterday on Simon Schama's The Power of Art, which originally aired on BBC and is now on PBS. I watched the first half of the Van Gogh episode last night, and I love it so much, I never want this series to end. I was worried it might be dull, or cheesy, especially since they use an actor to do re-inactments, but instead it is just remarkable and captivating. I was fifteen minutes in when I yelled "Andy Serkis!" when I finally figured out who was playing Van Gogh...LOL. I found I had to pause and rewind because my mind would be off on crazy Van Gogh tangents and I'd missed a couple sentences of dialogue. I just want to draw and draw and draw, it is so inspiring. And there is a book as well!
There was something altogether too decorative about the impressionists, marinating the meat of human existence in the rinse of their luminescence.
Brilliant.