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I think this is mainly thanks to a coffee shop that existed years ago in Madrid\u00b4s city centre, Van Gogh Caf\u00e9, which my family and I used to visit very frequently, given its lovely atmosphere,, the superb food they offered and the fact that it was located just next to my parents\u00b4 apartment. I have very good memories of going to Van Gogh\u00b4s when the girls were still little, especially with my parents at lunchtime, and sometimes with the additional company of some of my siblings, siblings in law or nephews and nieces, whoever happened to be in Madrid on those dates. And on a couple of occasions, we also had big celebrations, with the whole family gathered together \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The caf\u00e9 was of course decorated with all things Van Gogh, with copies of his best known paintings scattered all over the walls, paper placemats printed with a collection of his many self portraits, and even a reconstruction of one of his scenes, with a real table and two chairs placed next to a big front window. Unfortunately, that venue closed down a few years ago, but the simple style and the vibrant colours of Van Gogh\u00b4s paintings stayed in my memory since then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u00b4s why I was so happy when I recently got to see some of his paintings at the National Gallery, in London, including the one with the sunflowers (or to be precise, one of them, as he painted several canvases with the sunflowers theme), the chair you can see above, and this landscape with clouds that I didn\u00b4t remember seeing before, and that I also found quite cool:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Pero el que se lleva la palma en mi opini\u00f3n es el de la noche estrellada, a la que hasta Lego le ha hecho un homenaje, y que tambi\u00e9n es uno de los cuadros estrella de la exposici\u00f3n interactiva (o como la llaman oficialmente, \u00abla experiencia inmersiva\u00bb) que hemos visitado este fin de semana en Dubl\u00edn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n I loved learning a bit more about the life and works of this great painter, who was gifted with very deep sensitivity and an extraordinary talent, both of which sadly came together with a great deal of suffering, as it often happens in the world or artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There were several of his quotes that I found really inspiring, like for example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abSi oyes una voz dentro de ti que dice que no puedes pintar, entonces adelante, pinta,,y esa voz ser\u00e1 silenciada.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abLas grandes cosas no se consiguen por impulso, sino a base de ir enlazando una serie de peque\u00f1as cosas\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00abEl coraz\u00f3n del hombre se parece mucho al mar: tiene sus tormentas, tiene sus mareas, y en sus profundidades tambi\u00e9n hay perlas.\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00ab\u00bfQu\u00e9 ser\u00eda de la vida si no tuv\u00e9ramos el coraje de intentar nada?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Y tambi\u00e9n me acord\u00e9 de que hace a\u00f1os alguien le compuso una canci\u00f3n preciosa, \u00abVincent\u00bb, aqu\u00ed la ten\u00e9is con la letra en ingl\u00e9s y en espa\u00f1ol:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n
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