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160 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Monday, 1 November 1880.
in translation:
...anatomy of a person. There are laws of proportion, of light and shadow, of perspective, that one...
164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.
in translation:
...though, for all manner of prints or books about proportion, and find out as much as you can about...
...Viollet-le-Duc, for example, about those prints about proportion, that’s most probably the best...
177 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, on or about Monday, 17 October 1881.
in translation:
...them particularly with an eye to outline, proportion and how they’re constructed. That’s the...
183 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.
in translation:
...Later in life they usually develop in unequal proportion, in one love, in the other ambition and...
199 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 8 or Monday, 9 January 1882.
in translation:
...ll automatically become alert to the mistakes in the proportion of my studies of this summer and...
203 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Thursday, 26 January 1882.
in translation:
...effort must be made before one can look at the proportion of things with a steady eye. It’s not...
208 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Monday, 6 and on or about Thursday, 9 March 1882.
in translation:
...hard, for weeks now, on drawing, on proportion, on perspective, but Tersteeg doesn’t appreciate...
210 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 11 March 1882.
in translation:
...I must draw more seriously and pay attention to proportion and perspective). Similarly, Mr T.’s...
212 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, between about Thursday, 16 and on or about Monday, 20 March 1882.
in translation:
...namely the study of anatomy, perspective and proportion, they remain, and mature slowly but surely...
230 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 23 May 1882.
in translation:
...such an enormous amount depends — perspective and proportion. I’ve been rather weak for the...
in note 2:
Van Gogh added ‘perspective and proportion’ later.
235 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Saturday, 3 June 1882.
in translation:
...in connection with the study of perspective and proportion for an instrument described in a work by...
250 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 23 July 1882.
in translation:
...drawing, the correctness of perspective and proportion, it also benefits the watercolouring. And...
258 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 20 August 1882.
in translation:
...that one draw the objects in the correct proportion and position with some certainty before one...
265 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Sunday, 17 or Monday, 18 September 1882.
in translation:
...as writing something down, and that one must master proportion and learn to see in such a way that...
269 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Monday, 25 September 1882.
in translation:
...if I do use the study I can find the proportion of any figure, more or less. Of course, a proper...
284 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Friday, 17 or Saturday, 18 November 1882.
in translation:
...I believe, instead, that only a relatively small proportion of the public looks exactly as you...
331 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 21 March 1883.
in translation:
...strengths come into it, it’s out of proportion — and the drawing has more foreground) because I...
...fun of it, I set down one or two in a different proportion so that I could merge them into a whole...
353 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 15 June 1883.
in translation:
...who scrambled up the heaps and stood here and there so that I could see the proportion of the figure at...
357 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Wednesday, 27 June 1883.
in translation:
...critical — and to get it as forceful in proportion as small figures at that size is sometimes...
360 To Theo van Gogh, The Hague, on or about Saturday, 7 July 1883.
in translation:
...left vague; keeping an eye on this sort of proportion is the hallmark of Corot and Rousseau and...
406 To Theo van Gogh. Nieuw-Amsterdam, Monday, 12 or Tuesday, 13 November 1883.
in translation:
...but definitely in its general structure and proportion, very well, it was essential, absolutely...
409 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 6 December 1883.
in translation:
...s done, perhaps it’s even a much smaller proportion — of which it can be said: this or that...
413 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Saturday, 15 December 1883.
in translation:
...confidence. My views may sometimes be out of proportion; that may be so. Yet I believe that there...
437 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, on or about Thursday, 13 March 1884.
in translation:
...him in, or even if I drew him out of proportion), every now and then you couldn’t help thinking...
478 To Anton Kerssemakers. Nuenen, between Thursday, 1 and about Thursday, 8 January 1885.
in translation:
...suppose that you neglected sufficiently to compare the proportion of the width of the group as a...
483 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, between about Thursday, 5 and about Thursday, 26 February 1885.
in translation:
...else — but what interests me even more is the proportion of a figure, the division of the oval of...
493 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, Monday, 13 April 1885.
in note 11:
...Ypres with historical murals; he spent a large proportion of his time on this huge project until his death...
515 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 14 July 1885.
in translation:
...same way — sometimes charmingly — correct — in proportion and anatomy. But when Israëls or...
526 To Anthon van Rappard. Nuenen, between about Saturday, 8 and about Saturday, 15 August 1885.
in translation:
...outline and the action from the position and proportion of these egg shapes. And I, says Delacroix...
527 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 17 August 1885.
in date note:
...he also says that he spent a significant proportion of the allowance on settling debts (ll...
550 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, Monday, 28 December 1885.
in date note:
...that he has already spent a considerable proportion of it, and later in the letter acknowledges that...
566 To Theo van Gogh. Antwerp, on or about Wednesday, 24 February 1886.
in translation:
...drawing I did today needed virtually no change in proportion and none at all in tone. So I’d...
687 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, Tuesday, 25 September 1888.
in translation:
...large tubes 12 silver ,, . That’s approximately in proportion to the canvas. As I’ve just...
754 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Thursday, 4 April 1889.
in original text:
...davantage, les dépenses séparées ayant augmentées en proportion, ils ne sont en realité pas un...
in translation:
...more, since the separate expenses are increased in proportion, they’re not a mite better off in...
820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.
in original text:
...voit encore et alors quand meme, donnant la proportion juste de la figure humaine là-dedans, ça y...
822 To Emile Bernard. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 26 November 1889.
in original text:
...une chaumière de chez nous – enfin la proportion relativement à la figure humaine. C’était...

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36 letters found

36 letters found

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