TALKING ART supports people coping with DEPRESSION.
Allow art to combat your ANXIETIES, STRESS & DEPRESSION
LOVE ART, LOVE LIFE
Vincent Van Gogh, “Wheatfield with Crows” – Oil on Canvas – 1890
An intensely brooding and ominous dark-blue stormy sky, a field of wheat blowing in ripples and waves, bending, toing and froing in a blustery wind. Dirt and cart tracks, left, right and centre confusingly cleave through the field of dark yellow ripening wheat. An ominous ‘murder’ of squawking cawing jet black crows in frenzied, taunting flight, harbingers of death or depression, expressing the sadness and extreme loneliness that Van Gough himself felt but could not express in words.
The colours are a state of mind rather than reality, it is taking over command from the visual reality dominating and agitating the senses into a new heightened reality of pure feelings and emotions.
Is this a depressed, insane mind of a lunatic? No, it is a deep passion for creating something new, raw and visceral, a deeper concern than depicted reality, a new bold dramatic and passionate need to create something powerful of what it feels like rather than looks like, a new reality that is psychologically intense?
Sometimes seeing a reflection of one’s anxieties, dark and troubled can be a comfort, a feeling of not being alone with no one to understand or empathise with and in the presence of something that does not judge, advise, or tell you what you should do and think, to normalise you to their way of thinking and dealing with something they do not understand or have personally experienced. To see yourself reflected in a mirror can be a shock, a sobering experience.
WARNING: If you are troubled with depression, anxieties or thoughts of suicide, please seek professional help.
TALKING ART with Paul Woods.
