Ok, you can pick 10 paintings past or contemporary -which???

Giacomo Balla "Dynamicism of a Dog on a Leash."

And Van Gogh was very unstable and shot himself in the stomach to die days later. I love his work none the less, probably even more. I had the wonderful opportunity to see a VAn Gogh-Gauguin joint exhibit in Chicago in the Art Institute. The were at the "studio of the south" in ARles France, from May until November one year, when many of their famous works were painted. Van Gogh's brother paid for him a house to paint in. He asked Gauguin to come there, who left his wife and 5 kids to paint. The painted the summer (the fields, the sunflowers), then the tavern, the innkeeper. Then Gauguin started to talk about leavingt, which upset Van Gogh immensely. The more upset he became, the more Gauguin wanted to go, and he left. Van Gogh went in to a mental hospital after cutting off his ear on the night the Gauguin did not come back to the studio. Later he shot himself in the stomach, after he went out and set up his field easel, over the fields which some of you mention.....fields with crows. My first painting choice will be Heironymous Bosch, the one with the space ship looking structure in the middle and 300 or so figures around it......name escapes me, but my second choice would be Van Gogh's SECOND starry night painting, in which he paints both the sun adn the moon, perhaps a reference to the interminably long days of a mental institution or .......who knows?? His mind worked only to paint. He wanted Gauguin to stay as it fueled his thoughts of color, line. It was a wonderful exhibit. Both artists wrote snide remarks about the other in letters to their friends, or family, adn the curator posted those on teh walls above the paintings. It gives me chills to think about it now... It was such a fantastic exhibit. They painted the same scenes and the paintings were actually hanging side by side............