From Seeing and Writing 2

“Paintings are often reproduced with words around them.


Wheatfield with Crows by Van Gogh (1853-1890).

This is a landscape of a cornfield with birds flying out of it. Look at it for a moment. Then see the painting below.


This is the last picture that Van Gogh painted before he killed himself.

It is hard to degine exactly how the words have changed the image but undoubtedly they have.”

Wow.

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