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VINCENT VAN GOGH:
Excerpts from the Letters
TROPICAL COLOR
To his sister Wilhelmina, Arles, 30 March 1888 (W3, p. 431)
But by intensifying all the colors one arrives once again at quietude and harmony.
There occurs in nature something similar to what happens in Wagner's music,
which, though played by a big orchestra, is nonetheless intimate. Only when
making a choice one prefers sunny and colorful effects, and there is nothing that
prevents me from thinking that in the future many painters Will go and Work in
tropical countries. You will be able to get an idea of the revolution in painting
when you think, for instance, of the brightly colored Japanese pictures that one
sees everywhere, landscapes and Hgures. Theo and I have hundreds of japanese
prints in our possession.
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