Vincent Van Gogh; a different way of seeing things

Vincent Van Gogh; a different way of seeing things

fiction
Edward w Pritchard

Everyone is not the same. Yes, some people see the world a little different and their behavior is difficult for normal people to understand, resulting in alienation and isolation from others.

Here's what I wrote about Vincent Van Gogh. I admire his paintings very much and have read many of Vincent's letters to his Brother Theo.

The letters between Vincent the alienated artist and Theo Van Gogh business man tell a sad love story between two very different brothers.
Here's what I wrote before about Vincent Van Gogh.

the flower arranger

fiction
edward w pritchard

As charity work, being a religious woman, Mrs Lemat, florist took flowers to the psychiatric patients in the hospital at Arles.

Mrs. Lemat  came on the painter of sunflowers in his room at the hospital after the patient Van Gogh had quarreled with a fellow artist Gaugin and later had cut off a piece of his own ear.

Mrs. Lemat remembered the painter Van Gogh because she had as a commission for the artist from her Florist's shop a few months ago supplied and arranged twelve sunflowers in a vase that the artist had spent several days painting.

The patient who could be amiable at times [ despite his reputation] spent several minutes talking to Mrs. Lemat, as she delivered to him several sunflowers in a small vase this day as part of her charity work for patients in the psychiatric hospital at Arles.

Van Gogh talked in a friendly perceptive way to Mrs Lemat about the differences in color between the original commissioned vase of flowers she had supplied a few months ago to Van Gogh earlier for one of his Paintings and the Sunflowers she delivered to him now as a charity gift to brighten his room in the Psychiatric hospital here at Arles.

As she left the hospital, feeling sad for the fate of the sick painter, Mrs. Lemat wondered if the painter's being in the hospital was influencing the way he saw the colors of the two sets of sunflowers, for in truth they both looked the same to her.

Mrs. Lemat who was in no sense an intellectual thought for a long time about colors and perception conversation she had with the artist Vincent Van Gogh and years later when she heard that Mr. Van Gogh's painting "Sunflowers" was now very valuable Mrs. Lemat recalled with sadness that the artist had shortly after her delivering the flowers to his room at the Psychiatric hospital shot himself in a field where she played as a girl many years ago.