Talking to Vincent: the choice is yours

Talking to Vincent at Anchor Bay. 12"×16" (30.5×40.6cm). Oil on linen panel. April 2013

Yesterday on Google+, I mentioned Shakespeare being my guide on the journey through paradise of art history, and felt a familiar tinge of self-mockery: who are you for Shakespeare to be your guide? Come off it... Virgil was Dante's guide, all right, but he was, you know, Dante; not some unknown non-entity of whom Virgil had never heard in his life. The same undercurrent of feelings accompanied naming this work, although it is, believe it or not, an absolutely honest title (who are you for Van Gogh to talk to you, etc. etc.).