Saturday, September 6, 2008

What's Up, Buttercup?



We went to see Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night, Saint-Rémy, June 1889. Oil on canvas" at the Yale Art Gallery. It's on loan from The Museum of Modern Art, along with "Cypresses" from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Cool to see them side by side because they don't normally live together. There are a gazillion videos that pay tribute to Vincent. I chose this one for its simplicity and because the colors of the paintings looked good on my screen. I am (pathetically) doing the whole Vincent thing: reading DEAR THEO, singing with Don McLean in my head, cutting off my ear, etc.

(after last night's rain, the big spike on my wild verbascum has burst into bloom for a second time!)

9 comments:

Lynne said...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24975

ArtDot said...

We never know where you'll turn up!

Alice said...

Wow! your obsessed with vincent. please come and see our new puppy!!! I am acting cute and inocent...wait did you say your going to cut your ear off! Whos Don MacLean. OOOOO... and how are sailor and TC? there is not much to say. but write back soon please!

Lynne said...

No-I’m not going to cut my ear off (that was a joke-Vincent was a very sad man and once cut off a piece of his own ear, poor thing.)

Lynne said...

I know  that vincent did that speaking of wich, one year one of our room mothers was van go and she tied gnaz around her head and over her ear for halloween! Our new puppys name is Maylee Brook May Alice Lee. My mom knows how to e-mail pics so i will ask her to help me get one to you. Oh and geuss what nick jonases b-day is today( hes a famos singer)
Yours Truly, Alice

Lynne said...

I would LOVE to see a picture of Maylee.  I looked up Nick Jonas so now I know all about him.  Don MacLean is/was also a famous singer.  He wrote the Vincent song that is in the video.  Papa likes it.
Later, Gator!

Lynne said...

POP QUIZ: 1.Who was the last person nick jonas dated?(This was all over the place.) 2.What is the band he plays in? 3. How many brothers dose he have. #1 might be kind of hard #2 is easy #3 is a trick question  Good Luck!  
                                     Yours Truly,                                   Alice

Lynne said...

OK-
So maybe I don’t know EVERYTHING about Nick Jonas, but I’ll try to take this quiz without cheating.

1. I dunno
2. The Jonas Brothers
3. two?  (I wonder what the “trick” part of this question is...)

Alice said...

Here are the answers;
1.Miley Cyrus
2.Correct,The Jonas Brothers
3.3 brothers,he has one that is not in the band, he is about 6 or 7.
Yours Truly,                                      Alice