The Lost PowerPoint Slides (Vincent van Gogh Edition)

Vincent presents “shockingly bad hair” (circa 1880) –> slide 3

• Yes, I have bad hair
• Yes, it’s “shocking”

Because of:
• poverty
• disillusionment
• it’s a good way to ensure solitude.

Vincent presents “blank canvas” (circa 1884) –> slide 7

• can’t be afraid of making mistakes
• if you are –> stagnation, mediocrity
• some painters –> mesmerized by blank canvas
• got to get dirty, violate that canvas!

Vincent presents “on painting” (circa 1885) –> slide 1

• true, my paintings don’t sell
• people will recognize their value one day
• I wish I could get a decent haircut though
• and a little more absinthe.

Vincent on “sanity” (circa 1879-1890) –> slide 12

• put heart and soul into painting
• lost my mind in process.

Vincent on “sanity” (circa 1879-1890) –> slide 13

“All -Night Cafe”:
• expression of the idea that at a cafe:
• one can ruin oneself
• become crazy and criminal
• one can drink absinthe.

Paul Gaugin presents “The Fellow Liked Yellow” (circa 1894) –> slide 3

• he loved yellow, did good Vincent
• gleams of sunlight warming his soul

Paul Gaugin presents “The Fellow Liked Yellow” (circa 1894) –> slide 4

• in Arles, both of us insane
• constantly at war over beautiful colors
• I adored red
• he, taking his yellowest brush, wrote on the suddenly purple wall:

I am of sound mind,
I am the Holy Ghost.

Vincent Van Gogh, b. March 30, 1853.