painting

“The point is that one sees things at different moments with different
eyes. Differently in the morning then in the evening. The way in which
one sees also depends on one’s mood.. ..coming in from a dark bedroom in
the morning into the sitting room one will, for example, see everything
in a bluish light. Even the deepest shadows are topped with bright
light. After a while one will accustom oneself to the light and the
shadows will be deeper and everything will be seen more sharply. If an
atmosphere of this kind is being painted it won’t do merely to sit and
gaze at everything ‘just as one sees’. One must paint precisely the
fleeting moment of significance – one must capture the exact experience
separating that significant moment from the next – the exact moment when
the motif struck one.. .In some circumstances a chair may seem to be
just as interesting as a human being. In some way or another it must
have caught the interest in which case the onlooker’s interest must
somehow be engaged in the same way. It’s not the chair that should be
painted, but what the person has felt at the sight of it [written in
Saint Cloud, 1890 – probably related to the chair of Vincent van Gogh”

The Scream – Munch Edvard