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Don't you love Vincent's blue: does it depict an evening sky? Provocative wordless Wednesday scene.

Hi Carole!

What a neat idea!  Did you see the painting or the church first?

About all that has changed is the color of the glass windows and the paths have been replaced by concrete.

A very clever idea!!!! (I will let someone else ask where it was taken for I don't have a clue.  I know it isn't Moscow.)

Tortured, yet brilliant artist. How surreal to stand in front of this church knowing that Van Gogh captured the same image.

I think they are both beautiful. :)
I love Van Gogh's work ... I have some prints ... unfortunately, they are only prints. :)

One day, you and I will go back to Paris. :)

Carole - Van Gogh is among my favorites.  Monet and Renoir probably top my list.

WOW Carole..Where is this? New York?! That just gives me chills...viewing the same structure that an artist's eye captured in his famous painting...(ok, must not be NY); That must be a most remarkable experience, to stand on that ground... for a moment, you put the figure back into the original and became living, van gogh art...a breath of timeless history...wow. thanks for sharing this.

Carole..What a great wordless Wednesday..Van Gogh is one of my favorites..What a tragic life ..Sunflowers that is my very favorite..Thank you

I love the comparison and it's great to see where the inspiration came from.  Thanks for a great post.

Carole- What a nice comparison- I do like your photo! It is interesting how we see things. We just took an Iphoto class at the Apple store and a 30 yr veteran photographer taught the class. He said we must all see with our eyes first and learn how to capture what the lens of our eye sees with the camera lens. Katerina

Amazing... this is incredible... often we don't know exactly where the artist was when they painted an image.     This definately left me wordless.  beautiful!

That is really cool!  Now if you were to paint the same subject, what would your picture look like?

Carole - what an amazing photo, when did you visit there? I would love to visit the places in Van Gogh's paintings and compare them with my photographs. Thanks for sharing your post :)

I think it's a great painting!

What a great comparison! A few years ago, a contemporary photographer went around Colorado, rephotographing historic scenes that another famous photographer had taken, 100 yrs ago.  It was made into a wonderful "coffee table book" of before and after shots, that absolutely captivates me whenever I see it on a bookshelf, or in a home...hmmm...maybe I need to purchase that book!  P.S. watch your mail, I finally remembered to put the envelope in the mail! =0)

Carole, I love the contrast of the two. Van Gogh was an amazing artist, yet I find the contrast between his art and the photograph great!

Wow, Carole, did you feel the hair stand up on the back of your neck when you stood in front of the building with your camera in your hands?

Well done Carole!

I love the way you did this.

I knew I subscribed to you for a reason!

Keep up the great blogging!

Vincent sure did a great job Carole. I love the old architecture and styling of the building.

Hi Carole, I think Lee & Carol # # summed it up for me tortured & talented. I always think it was so sad he never got to realize his worth in his lifetime :(

Love how you posted the photo and his painting!

Carole - what a great post here - and love the comparison from different views. That is awesome you were able to see the same building.

Hi Carole, Wow, I love seeing the contrast between the painting and the actual subject property.  What a different perspective!

Thank you all, I enjoyed this too.  The painting was in a museum but on my trip to Paris I'd decided to go to the little Province of Auvers-sur-Orse where Van Gogh spent the last 10 weeks of his life and created over 100 paintings during that time. 

You were allowed to see the tiny room he lived in and to walk up to his gravesite where he is buried with his brother Theo.  We passed the Church along the way and to this day, artists are still outside painting it.

They are making this tiny Province into HIS museum now and Starry Nite which had hung in MOMA for years has been moved there as well as many other of his works.  It's not an easy trek from Paris but well worth it if you're a Van Gogh fan.  I believe the man was tortured and brilliant and saw more colors in his life that many of us just aren't able to.

Carole - that is SO COOL that you have both pictures!  I love his perspective and it's amazing how close it is the real life church.  GORGEOUS!

Thank you...it was just incredible to be there!

Hi Carole... I love Van Gogh.  The color of the sky in this painting is incredible and leaves a incedible visual impression.

Hi Carole,

It would be interesting to be inside of his brain and seeing through his eyes for a few hours.....he certainly knew how to see the beauty in everything he saw and translate it into his art for all of us to see too.

To think that you stood where he stood! Beautiful photo....

Jo

Carole, I have Starry Night; the Sunflowers; Cafe Terrace, The Chair, Irises ....

I think I'm a fan ... :)

Steve, So do I....I wanted so badly to go the Province where he lived last and was so inspired. 

Jo, I'm willing to bet he dreamed in color.  He used so many shades of the same color and even as I stood at the church and saw that he saw COLOR in it.  An absolutely incredibly brilliant person that continues to facinate me.

Sylvie, I would LOVE being in your home.  I had up Starry Night but took it down after visiting MOMA so many times and standing for an hour transfixed!  I am SO sorry it's been taken down and moved....