HINDU ART
Similarly Vincent Van Gogh (1830-1890) , the Dutch painter, who, if not in execution like Cêzanne, has, at least in ideal, pioneered the new art movement of to-day, seems almost to have given the theory of Hindu art from the side of painting. Says he:
"I should despair if my figures were correct; . . . I think Michaelangelo's figures magnificent, even though the legs are certainly too long and the hips and the pelvis bones a little too broad. . . . It is my most fervent desire to know how one can achieve such deviations from reality, such inaccuracies and such transfigurations, that come about by chance. Well, if you like, they are lies, but they are more valuable than the real values." (The Letters of a Post-Impressionist, transl. from the German by A. M. Ludovici, p. 23.)
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