Anyway, I've been day-dreaming all morning, and came across a site with more Vincent van Gogh paintings to look at. I was going to grab one, but soon became mesmerized and wound-up downloading several images that I thought we just couldn't live without. Let me start with the first painting, Green Ears of Wheat dated Arles: June, 1888, which means he painted late in his life, after his asylum stays, not that this detail is either here or there, but something is very different about this first painting. For one thing the brush strokes are quite straight.

I'm not sure, but something about the colors as well almost suggests this isn't Vincent's work, at the very least he changed or depending on how one views his earlier works, you might say he grew, I wouldn't, I love the older stuff, before the nervous hospital visits. Still these are master works of art, just different. Below is a painting called Gleize Bridge over the Vigueirat Canal also created in Arles, France in 1888. Again missing the characteristic van Gogh brilliant arcs of paint we've come to identify with the artist. Nevertheless, I find myself staring at this painting for many minutes in the most pleasant of moods.