HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:27:40 GMT content-type: text/html content-length: 162 location: https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/feed/ x-ac: 2.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=235.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:27:40 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com vary: accept, content-type last-modified: Wed, 26 Feb 2025 15:09:08 GMT x-nc: HIT dca 165 content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 2.bom _dca BYPASS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=BYPASS;dur=244.0 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com Ion Vincent Danu's paintings and opinions on art Sat, 18 Jul 2015 11:50:20 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://secure.gravatar.com/blavatar/4139b71e285900115866011866a1c24124051efafe0a872763475e121855ab13?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fs0.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png https://ivdanu.wordpress.com https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/relative-prostitution-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/relative-prostitution-2/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2015 11:50:20 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/relative-prostitution-2/ Van Gogh and I:
What I would like – and should! – paint would be large canvases … grim but colorful, weird, surreal compositions, in the genre of my beloved Pieter Brueghel the Ancient or Bosch, or,…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/07/18/relative-prostitution-2/feed/ 3 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/farewell-and-the-big-sleep/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/farewell-and-the-big-sleep/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2015 21:17:17 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/?p=1447 Continue reading →]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/farewell-and-the-big-sleep/feed/ 2 ivdanu DSCN6691 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/vincent-and-daumier-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/vincent-and-daumier-2/#respond Sat, 30 May 2015 05:05:06 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/vincent-and-daumier-2/ Van Gogh and I:
Vincent van Gogh was a generous man. He admired a lot of artists, all kind of artists (Meissonier, “le pompier” was, surprisingly for us, today, one of his preferred artists…) and was very…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/vincent-and-daumier-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-look-of-a-child-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-look-of-a-child-2/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:57:28 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-look-of-a-child-2/ Van Gogh and I:
Sometimes, in some rare and privileged moments, I can look at the world as a child. Sometimes, for a few minutes or hours (if I’m lucky) I can BE a child again. Receiving…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/the-look-of-a-child-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/the-bucket-list/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/the-bucket-list/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2015 04:13:15 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/?p=1435 Continue reading →]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/the-bucket-list/feed/ 2 ivdanu Old OLt riverbed, Transylvania, near Saca https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/madness-and-painting-renoir-about-van-gogh-cezanne-and-jules-ii-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/madness-and-painting-renoir-about-van-gogh-cezanne-and-jules-ii-2/#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2015 01:40:30 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/madness-and-painting-renoir-about-van-gogh-cezanne-and-jules-ii-2/ Van Gogh and I:
Jean Renoir, the famous film director, son of the not less famous impressionist painter Renoir (Pierre-Auguste) reported a conversation he had with his father about Van Gogh, mainly… I’ll try to translate it…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/madness-and-painting-renoir-about-van-gogh-cezanne-and-jules-ii-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/ecce-homo-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/ecce-homo-2/#respond Mon, 02 Feb 2015 02:42:51 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/ecce-homo-2/ Van Gogh and I:
I know, it sounds a bit (or, ok, a lot) corny and pretentious… But Nietzsche did it. He wrote a book entitled just like that: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is.…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/02/01/ecce-homo-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/all-kind-of-plans-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/all-kind-of-plans-2/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:41:51 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/all-kind-of-plans-2/ Van Gogh and I:
For instance, since human clients for portraits seems to be rare these days, I plan to do some superb dog portraits (knowing how much people love their pets, a good portrait should bring…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2015/01/16/all-kind-of-plans-2/feed/ 1 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/i-am-too-old-for-this-shit-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/i-am-too-old-for-this-shit-2/#comments Wed, 31 Dec 2014 02:21:28 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/i-am-too-old-for-this-shit-2/ Van Gogh and I:
La Bohème, la vie d’artiste, for the moment I will set that aside. As you can read in my title, I really am too old for this shit… 20 years older than Vincent…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/30/i-am-too-old-for-this-shit-2/feed/ 2 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/the-jester-danu-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/the-jester-danu-2/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2014 03:07:16 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/the-jester-danu-2/ Van Gogh and I:
Summer is a wonderful time here,  in Quebec (in other parts of the world I suppose is the same but given the long, long winter, when the summer comes, man! are we “Quebecois”…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/21/the-jester-danu-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/homage-to-vincent/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/homage-to-vincent/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2014 02:55:09 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/?p=1410 Continue reading →]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/homage-to-vincent/feed/ 2 ivdanu My variant - as an homage and trying to learn his technique - of Vincent's Almond Blossom https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/shifting-perceptions-about-vincent-van-gogh-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/shifting-perceptions-about-vincent-van-gogh-2/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2014 23:01:46 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/shifting-perceptions-about-vincent-van-gogh-2/ Van Gogh and I:
It’s kind of funny. A few posts away I was writing about PERCEPTIONS. And how everything is a question of perception… Well, my perceptions about Vincent changed. Of course, they changed for a…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/shifting-perceptions-about-vincent-van-gogh-2/feed/ 2 ivdanu https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/december-2001-2/ https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/december-2001-2/#respond Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:18:40 +0000 https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/december-2001-2/ Van Gogh and I:
When I remember that time it’s kind of blurry… A lot of new pain, the self realisation that I’m going to be soon old and sick (just discovered I had the diabethes) and…]]> https://ivdanu.wordpress.com/2014/12/11/december-2001-2/feed/ 0 ivdanu