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Cognitive map #0504/ 2004 - Satoshi Kinoshita
COGNITIVE MAP #0504/ 2004  
( Satoshi Kinoshita )

Series: Paintings: Landscape
Medium: Acrylic on linen with artist's wood stretchers
Size (inches): 28 x 20.5 (linen size)
Size (mm): 711 x 521 (linen size)
Catalog #: PA_028
Description: Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse/ this work comes with unique artist's stretchers (size: 27.3" x 19.5"/ 700mm x 500mm). Staples on the front. See at the bottom of the image.



My dear sister,

In this very little room I want to put, in the Japanese manner, at least six very large canvases, particularly the enormous bouquets of sunflowers. You know that the Japanese instinctively seek contrasts - sweetened spices, salted candy, fried ices and iced fried things. So it follows, according to the same system, that in a big room there should be very small pictures and in a very little room one should hang very large ones.

For my part I don't need Japanese pictures here, for I am always telling myself that here I am in Japan. Which means that I have only to open my eyes and paint what is right in front of me, if I think it effective.

I also made a new portrait of myself, as a study, in which I look like a Japanese.

The more ugly, old, vicious, ill, poor I get, the more I want to take my revenge by producing a brilliant colour, well arranged, resplendent. Jewellers too get old and ugly before they learn how to arrange precious stones well. And arranging the colours in a picture in order to make them vibrate and to enhance their value by their contrasts is something like arranging jewels properly or - designing costumes. You will see that by making a habit of looking at Japanese pictures you will love to make up bouquets and to do things with flowers all the more. I must finish this letter now if I want to get it off today. I shall be very happy to have the picture of Mother that you speak of, so don't forget to send it to me. Give my dearest love to Mother, I often think of you two, and it pleases me very much that you know our life a little better now.

I embrace you and Mother.

Yours, Vincent

1. Written in French.

-Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Wilhelmina van Gogh (extract), Arles, 9 and 16 September 1888.

At this time, Vincent was 35 year old.

Source:
Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Wilhelmina van Gogh. Written 9 and 16 September 1888 in Arles. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, published in The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Publisher: Bulfinch, 1991, number W07.
URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/18/W07.htm.
This letter may be freely used, in accordance with the Creative Commons license.



cognitive map: an interpretive framework of the world which, it is argued, exists in the human mind and affects actions
and decisions as well as knowledge structures.

-Anthropology dictionary


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