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REMINISCENCE #0704/ 2004
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Paintings: Landscape | | Medium: | Acrylic on stretched canvas | | Size (inches): | 56.8 x 12.5 | | Size (mm): | 1443 x 318 | | Catalog #: | PA_045 | | Description: | Signed, titled, date, copyright in magic ink on the reverse.
reminiscence (rem-i-nissens):
In the psychology of learning, an improvement in recall, over that shown on the last trial, of incompletely learned material after an interval without practice. [L. reminiscentiae, from reminiscor, to remember]
-Stedman's Online Medical Dictionary, 27th Edition.
REMINISCENCE (from Lat. reminisci, to remember), the recognized translation of the Greek civhjsvqcrs, which is used technically by Plato in his doctrifle that the soul recovers knowledge of which it had direct intuition in a former incorporeal existence. The doctrine may be regarded as the poetical precursor of modern a priori theories of knowledge and of race-memory and the like. In common language reminiscence is synonymous with recollection.
-1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
[From Hermann Schlittgen (1859 - ?), Erinnerungen (Reminiscences), Munich, Albert Langen, 1926.]
The new art began to interest me; I saw the first impressionists. One day, as we were walking along the great boulevards, suddenly we stood transfixed. There on the other side of the road, in the show window of the art-dealing establishment of Goupil's, was displayed a picture which sent its radiance through all the bustle and hurry of the broad boulevard. We crossed the road and saw our first Claude Monet, a seascape with a brightly coloured boat in the foreground…
Upstairs, on the first floor, was displayed a collection of pictures by Monet; we simply could not tear ourselves away. This was a great impression, on of the strongest I have received in all my life.
After this we came back again and again; an obliging young employee with reddish hair, who did not look at all like a Frenchman, would hail us with pleasure like good acquaintances. It was easy to see that the public was not very interested in this style of art; most of the time the establishment was empty of visitors.
We looked in rapture; the young man stood apart, smiled and was visibly delighted. After a few days he accosted us; he had seen that we were so very interested in modern art; he had a brother who was a painter and who was living in the country; would we allow him to show us some pictures of his?
From an adjoining room he brought some unframed pictures of a smaller size. He remained standing modestly by our side, observing the effect this art produced on us. We had just come from Monet, and here we felt a certain constraint; this was something quite different, nature viewed by a willful temperament, decorative, in many cases the outlines marked in blue paint, as in old Japanese woodcuts. The gentleman asked me for my opinion; I praised the beautiful clear colours, but in my opinion some things were too stylized. The courteous gentleman thanked me, and carried the pictures back. Often when we passed the shop he was standing behind the street door looking through the glass at the boulevard, and he would greet us with a kind smile.
Only much later did we discover that this was Theo van Gogh.
-Letter from Herman Schlittgen to n/a, Munich, 1926.
At this time, Vincent "was" (would have been) 73 year old.
Source:
Herman Schlittgen. Letter to n/a. Written 1926 in Munich. Translated by Mrs. Johanna van Gogh-Bonger, edited by Robert Harrison, published in The Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, Publisher: Bulfinch, 1991, number htm.
URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/21/etc-T52.htm.
This letter may be freely used, in accordance with the Creative Commons license.
I think nothing in my work indicates I shall fail, if I only can continue to work and do my best. And I am not a person who works slowly or irresolutely.
-From Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh, The Hague, 1 May 1882
At this time, Vincent was 29 year old.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
-Martha Graham
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