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Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy, linen land
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they’ll listen now
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
But I could have told you, Vincent
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they’re not listening still
Perhaps they never will
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The words and imagery of this song represent the life, work, and death of Vincent Van Gogh. The opening line, “Starry, starry night,” refers to A Starry Night, one of the Dutch impressionist’s most famous paintings.
The lyrics, “Paint your palette blue and gray” reflect the prominent colors of the painting, and are probably a reference to Vincent’s habit of sucking on or biting his paintbrushes while he worked. The “ragged men in ragged clothes” and “how you tried to set them free” refer to Van Gogh’s humanitarian activities and love of the socially outcast as also reflected in his paintings and drawings. “They would not listen, they did not know how” refers to Van Gogh’s family and some associates who were critical of his kindness to “the wretched.”
“How you suffered for your sanity” refers to the schizophrenic disorder from which Van Gogh suffered. >>
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Don McLean told The Daily Telegraph February 24, 2010 the story of this song: “In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. I was sitting on the veranda one morning, reading a biography of Van Gogh, and suddenly I knew I had to write a song arguing that he wasn’t crazy. He had an illness and so did his brother Theo. This makes it different, in my mind, to the garden variety of ‘crazy’ – because he was rejected by a woman [as was commonly thought]. So I sat down with a print of Starry Night and wrote the lyrics out on a paper bag.”
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McLean was going through a dark period when he wrote this song. He explained to The Daily Telegraph: “I was in a bad marriage that was torturing me. I was tortured. I wasn’t as badly off as Vincent was, but I wasn’t thrilled, let’s put it that way.”
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This song, and Van Gogh’s painting, reflect what it’s like to be misunderstood. Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” after committing himself to an asylum in 1889. He wrote that night was “more richly colored than the day,” but he couldn’t go outside to see the stars when he was committed, so he painted the night sky from memory.
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Talking about the song on the UK show Songbook, McLean said: “It was inspired by a book. And it said that it was written by Vincent’s brother, Theo. And Theo also had this illness, the same one Van Gogh had. So what caused the idea to percolate in my head was, first of all, what a beautiful idea for a piece of music. Secondly, I could set the record straight, basically, he wasn’t crazy. But then I thought, well, how do you do this? Again, I wanted to have each thing be different.
I’m looking through the book and fiddling around and I saw the painting. I said, Wow, just tell the story using the color, the imagery, the movement, everything that’s in the painting. Because that’s him more than he is him.
One thing I want to say is that music is like poetry in so many ways. You have wit and drama and humor and pathos and anger and all of these things create the subtle tools that an artist, a stage artist, a good one, uses. Sadly, this has really gone out of music completely. So it makes someone like me a relic, because I am doing things and people like me are doing things that utilize all the classic means of emotional expression.”
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There could be some religious meaning in this song. McLean is a practicing Catholic, and has written songs like “Jerusalem” and “Sister Fatima” that deal with his faith. The “Starry Night” could mean creation, with many of the other lyrics referring to Jesus. McLean has said that several of the songs on the American Piealbum have a religious aspect to them, notably the closing track “Babylon.”
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The American Pie album is best known for the title track, which vaulted McLean from little-known folk singer to major recording artist. The song “American Pie” caught on quickly and rose to #1 in America on January 15, 1972, staying at the top for four weeks. “Vincent” was the next single, and a substantial hit, going to #12 in May. Importantly, it showed McLean’s depth as a songwriter and performer, and ensured he could never be a one-hit wonder.
The sudden success was great for McLean financially (he bought a Mercedes, not a Chevy), but difficult in terms of expectations. “Everything was on my shoulders,” he told Songfacts. “I am a strong person, but a lot came down at once. You had this #1 record. Now you’ve got to start working and proving yourself. It’s a hard job. Most people don’t realize how hard it is. It’s a grueling schedule and you have to be nice all the time. You have to succeed on stage all the time and you have to make recordings that are very good all the time, otherwise you’re done.”
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The British electronic artist Vincent Frank aka Frankmusik (check out “Better Off as Two“) was named after this song.
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The Irish singer Brian Kennedy sang this song at footballer George Best’s funeral.
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According to the movie Tupac, the Resurrection, Gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur was influenced by Don McLean, and this was his favorite song. When he was fatally wounded in a drive-by shooting in 1996, his girlfriend put this tune into a player next to his hospital bed to ensure it was the last thing he heard.
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Underneath the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, there is a time capsule that contains the sheet music to this song along with some of the artist’s brushes. This song is often played at the museum.
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This soundtracked the moment on the “‘Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky” episode of The Simpsons when Lisa becomes interested in astronomy.
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Josh Groban included the song on his self-titled debut album, which was released in 2001 when he was just 20 years old.
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02 How Should We Then Live? (Promo Clip) Dr. Francis Schaeffer
The clip above is from episode 9 THE AGE OF PERSONAL PEACE AND AFFLUENCE
In above clip Schaeffer quotes Paul’s speech in Greece from Romans 1 (from Episode FINAL CHOICES)
A Christian Manifesto Francis Schaeffer

Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Straw Hat 1887-Metropolitan.jpg
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) French Impressionist painter
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How Should We Then Live – Episode 8 – The Age of Fragmentation
Francis Shaeffer
Francis Schaeffer in the episode, “The Age of Fragmentation,” Episode 8 of HOW SHOULD WE THEN LIVE? noted:
I want to stress that I am not minimizing these men as men. To read van Gogh’s letters is to weep for the pain of this sensitive man. Nor do I minimize their talent as painters. Their work often has great beauty indeed. But their art did become the vehicle of modern man’s view of fractured truth and light. As philosophy had moved from unity to fragmentation so did painting. In 1912 Kaczynski wrote an article saying that in so far as the old harmony, that is an unity of knowledge have been lost, that only two possibilities remained: extreme abstraction or extreme naturalism, both he said were equal.
Their son Paulo (Paul) was born in 1921 (and died in 1975), influencing Picasso’s imagery to turn to mother and child themes. Paul’s three children are Pablito (1949-1973), Marina (born in 1951), and Bernard (1959). Some of the Picassos in this Saper Galleries exhibition are from Marina and Bernard’s personal Picasso collection.
Portrait of Paul Picasso as a Child. 1923. Oil on canvas.
Collection of Paul Picasso, Paris, France.
In 1917 ballerina Olga Khokhlova (1891-1955) met Picasso while the artist was designing the ballet “Parade” in Rome, to be performed by the Ballet Russe. They married in the Russian Orthodox church in Paris in 1918 and lived a life of conflict. She was of high society and enjoyed formal events while Picasso was more bohemian in his interests and pursuits. Their son Paulo (Paul) was born in 1921 (and died in 1975), influencing Picasso’s imagery to turn to mother and child themes. Paul’s three children are Pablito (1949-1973), Marina (born in 1951), and Bernard (1959). Some of the Picassos in this Saper Galleries exhibition are from Marina and Bernard’s personal Picasso collection.
Photo taken in 1944 after a reading of Picasso’s play El deseo pillado por la cola: Standing from left to right: Jacques Lacan, Cécile Éluard, Pierre Reverdy, Louise Leiris, Pablo Picasso, Zanie de Campan, Valentine Hugo, Simone de Beauvoir, Brassaï. Sitting, from left to right: Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Michel Leiris, Jean Aubier. Photo by Brassaï. –
Francis Schaeffer has written extensively on art and culture spanning the last 2000 years and here are some posts I have done on this subject before : Francis Schaeffer’s “How should we then live?” Video and outline of episode 10 “Final Choices” , episode 9 “The Age of Personal Peace and Affluence”, episode 8 “The Age of Fragmentation”, episode 7 “The Age of Non-Reason” , episode 6 “The Scientific Age” , episode 5 “The Revolutionary Age” , episode 4 “The Reformation”, episode 3 “The Renaissance”, episode 2 “The Middle Ages,”, and episode 1 “The Roman Age,” . My favorite episodes are number 7 and 8 since they deal with modern art and culture primarily.(Joe Carter rightly noted, “Schaeffer—who always claimed to be an evangelist and not a philosopher—was often criticized for the way his work oversimplified intellectual history and philosophy.” To those critics I say take a chill pill because Schaeffer was introducing millions into the fields of art and culture!!!! !!! More people need to read his works and blog about thembecause they show how people’s worldviews affect their lives!!!!)
There is evidence that points to the fact that the Bible is historically true asSchaeffer pointed out in episode 5 of WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE HUMANRACE? There is a basis then for faith in Christ alone for our eternal hope. This linkshows how to do that.
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Francis Schaeffer with his son Franky pictured below. Francis and Edith (who passed away in 2013) opened L’ Abri in 1955 in Switzerland.
In Confidence : Peter Howson – Artist who turned to God after struggling with autism and alcoholism
Uploaded on Aug 12, 2010
Lorna Grady meets Peter Howson, whose struggles with alcoholism and autism have led him to God in search of an inner peace. He has been described as one of the darkest and most controversial of Scottish painters and was an official war artist for the Bosnian Civil War.
Peter Howson and Frank Mcfadden
Uploaded on May 11, 2008
a view of leading scottish painters, Peter Howson and Frank Mcfadden at The lloyd jerome gallery, music by departure lounge
Contemporary Christian Art – The Rt Revd Lord Harries of Pentregarth
Published on Apr 10, 2012
Contrary to much opinion, the current scene of faith-related art is very much alive. There are new commissions for churches and cathedrals, a number of artists pursue their work on the basis of a deeply convinced faith, and other artists often resonate with traditional Christian themes, albeit in a highly untraditional way. The challenge for the artist, stated in the introduction to the course of lectures above, is still very much there: how to retain artistic integrity whilst doing justice to received themes.
This lecture is part of Lord Harries’ series on ‘Christian Faith and Modern Art’. The last century has seen changes in artistic style that have been both rapid and radical. This has presented a particular problem to artists who have wished to express Christian themes.
The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website:
http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and…
Gresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website.
http://www.gresham.ac.uk
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Artist destroys his own painting – The Madness of Peter Howson – BBC Four
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Howson, Peter – VM – James McCullough
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Peter Howson, 1958
The Tempest
Howson was born in London but moved to Scotland at the age of 4. He began as an infantry soldier in the Scottish Fusileers but left to study at Glasgow College of Art. He has concentrated on tough, working class figures and those on the edge of society. As well as being in major galleries his work has been collected by celebrities. In 1993 he was an official war artist in Bosnia. After a long battle against abuse and addiction, as well as being diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, he converted to Christianity in 2000, his faith now being reflected in some of his paintings. They reflect both violence as in JesusFalls for a Second Time, and compassion, as we see in Jesus meets Mary, two of his painting in a series of Stations of the Cross. Judas, 2002 shows him entering into the mind of the great betrayer. Ecce Homo has something disturbing about it and Legion, referring to the man in the Gospels who had the devils expelled from him, something of his own mental fragility and torment.
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Earlier I noted, many times in the past great painters and writers have had their careers halted by the bottle in the past. William Faulkner, Ernest Heminingway, Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce are all in the Woody Allen movie “Midnight in Paris” and they all were alcoholics. However, there is deliverance from alcoholism through the power of Christ.
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Peter Howson
Peter Howson | |
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Born | 1958 London, England |
Nationality | Scottish, British |
Field | Painting |
Training | Glasgow School of Art |
Cleansed, 1994, Oil on canvas, 183 x 244 cm, Imperial War Museums Collection
Plum Grove 1994, Oil on canvas, 213 x 152 cm, Tate Collection
Blind Leading the Blind III (Orange Parade), 1991.
Judas, 2002.
Peter Howson OBE (born London, England, 27 March 1958[1]) is a Scottish painter. He was the British official war artist in the 1993 Bosnian Civil War.
Early life
Peter Howson was born in London of Scottish parents and moved with his family to Prestwick, Ayrshire, when was aged four. He spent a short time as an infantry soldier in the Royal Highland Fusiliers but left to study at the Glasgow School of Art, from 1975 to 1977, and from 1979 to 1981. Here he worked alongside contemporaries such as Adrian Wiszniewski, Steven Campbell and Ken Currie, who also worked in figurative art.
Career
His work has encompassed a number of themes. His early works are typified by very masculine working class men, most famously in The Heroic Dosser (1987). Later he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum of London, to be the official war artist for the Bosnian Civil War in 1993. Here he produced some of his most shocking and controversial work detailing the atrocities which were taking place at the time, like Plum Grove (1994). One painting in particular Croatian and Muslim, detailing a rape created controversy partly because of its explicit subject matter but also because Howson had painted it from the accounts of its victims. He was also the official war painter at the Kosovo War for the London Times.[2]
Much of his work cast stereotypes on the lower social groups; he portrayed brawls including drunken, even physically deformed men and women.
In more recent years his work has exhibited strong religious themes which some say is linked to the treatment of his alcoholism and drug addiction at the Castle Craig Hospital in Peebles in 2000, after which he converted to Christianity.[3] Howson also has Asperger syndrome.[3]
His work has appeared in other media, with his widest exposure arguably for a British postage stamp he did in 1998 to celebrate engineering achievements for the millennium. In addition his work has been used on album covers by Live (Throwing Copper), The Beautiful South (Quench) and Jackie Leven (Fairytales for Hardmen).
His work is exhibited in many major collections and is in the private collection of celebrities such as David Bowie, Mick Jagger and Madonna who inspired a number of paintings in 202.
Howson was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[4] In November 2010, BBC Scotland aired a documentary named “The Madness of Peter Howson” which followed the final stages of the completion of a grand commission for show in the renovated St Andrew’s Cathedral and also dealt with Howson’s struggle against bouts of insanity.[5]
References
- Jump up ^ Howson Peter Howson at Oxford Index
- Jump up ^ War artists: Witness in paint, The Economist, 20 May 1999
- ^ Jump up to: a b “Peter Howson: my ‘murderous’ rage”. The Times. Retrieved 15 August 2008.
- Jump up ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59090. p. 11. 13 June 2009.
- Jump up ^ The Scotsman 24 November 2010
Bibliography
Monographs
- Berkoff, Stephen, Peter Howson, Flowers (2005)
- Heller, Robert, Peter Howson, Momentum (2003)
- Jackson, Allan, A Different Man, Mainstream Publishing (1997)
- Heller, Robert, Peter Howson, Mainstream Publishing (1993)
Exhibition Catalogues
- Harrowing of Hell, 24 October – 22 November 2008, Flowers East
- Christos Aneste, 18 March – 7 May 2005, Flowers East
- Inspired by the Bible, 6–20 August 2004, New College, Edinburgh
- The Stations of the Cross, 11 April – 18 May 2003, Flowers East
- The Third Step, 13 April – 4 June 2002, Flowers East
- The Rake’s Progress, 12 January – 11 February 1996, Flowers East
- Blind Leading the Blind, 9 November- 8 December 1991, Flowers East
External links
- Peter Howson on Flowers Gallery
- Peter Howson.net
- Peter Howson site
- Peter Howson Gallery
- Peter Howson on Artcyclopedia
- Glasgow Print Studio – view Howson works on-line
- Art and Soul Glasgow – Distributors of Peter Howson Art Work
- Peter Howson Famous people with Asperger Syndrome
- Read here the article Peter Howson, The Scottish Bosch by Donald Kuspit featured on Artnet
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