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The voice of Van Gogh

Expressionist art involves a dangerous tension of the spirit.

We feel that Grunewalt cannot have been entirely sane.

But the frenzied writhings, the Cathrine-wheel convoltions of Van Gogh

are further out of control than anything in El Greco, and in fact

painfully similar to the paintings of actual madmen.

Perhaps this is one reason why they have proved so popular.

The assult they make on our feeling is so violent that

people who are not normally moved recognize that

something unusual is goung on. Those to whom the rhythms of a Seura

would be as inaudible as the music of the spheres, cannot fail to

hear the voice of Van Gogh rising to a scream of rapture or despair.

.......In an age of violence and hysteria, an age in which standards and traditions

are being consciously destroyed , an age, above all, in which we have lost

all confidence in the natural order, this may be the only possible means

by which the individual human soul can assert its consciousness.

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