On Saturday, October 9, 2010, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I was at the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam earlier this week, and it was an > amazing revelation for me that even an inspired genius like Van Gogh attended > painting lessons all through his life and clearly got better over time. His > paintings from his early years are incomparable to his paintings from near > the end of his days where his talent shines a few orders of magnitude > brighter.
Cool. I was there last week, too. > If even Van Gogh can be taught to draw, then surely us talentless mortals can > at least learn the basics in school? I think we could, but did you see how much time he devoted to the task? The number of paintings in that museum alone is astounding. Andre
