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3 Ways Artists Cross Cultures

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Matt Taylor

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What Van Gogh teaches us about brokenness

Van Gogh painted numerous self portraits during his lifetime. Russ Ramsey indicates Van Gogh painted the above portrait days after cutting off his ear while he resided in an asylum hospital. It is a painting of “him telling the truth about how broken, desperate, needy and wounded he is.”

Ramsey applauds Van Gogh’s courage and honesty in painting such a portrait. I find Ramsey’s take away helpful for my own life. He says, “I want to be like that in the sense that I want to be somebody who is willing to let the wounded side of me be seen.”

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3 Ways Artists Cross Cultures

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Once you see it, you can't unsee it. Here is my attempt to unpack a simple framework for how artists can cross cultures.

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"The word illustration come with the same root word: illuminate. It means to shine light onto something other than itself. Illustration is to serve something outside of itself."

Marshall Vandruff, Developing An Illustration​

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