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	The Blossoming of a Rose in a... One Nation Under God... On 7,27, 1890, Van Gogh took his easel and when out into a field and shot himself in the chest. Title, "The Blossoming of a Rose in a Starless Night". This painting is about Van Gogh's suicide and my conclusions, about his suicide, after reading five biographies about his life, that he used himself as his last canvas, a gun as the paint brush, and his blood as the paint. I read in one of those books about Van Gogh, that he took his easel out to a field and shot himself in the chest. That information, along with all of the other knowledge that I already knew about Van Gogh, developed a well calculated conclusion in my mind. Therefore, this picture fully expresses, in my own surrealistic style, my own personal conclusions about Van Gogh's suicide. I AM NOT AT ALL CONDONING SUICIDE, OR EVEN ACCEPTING IT AS AN OPTION. but I have been as low as a person can possibly get, therefore, I do fully and totally understand how people feel when they are that low; AND TO THAT I SAY, WHAT MY MOTHER-IN-LAW KEPT SAYING TO ME DURING THAT PERIOD OF MY LIFE, "It rains and it rains and it rains, but sooner, or later, that sun always comes out again", and I have totally lived the truth of those precious words and indeed found them to be correct. The last 19 years of my life have been the absolute best years of my life, and six times back in 1989, I almost wasn't around anymore to see them come and enjoy them. That is why I call the last 19 years of my life, "The Resurrection Years". THEREFORE, HANG IN THERE, FIGHT BACK FOR YOUR SELF-IMAGE AND YOUR SELF-RESPECT, AND RISE UP FROM THE QUICKSAND OF SELF-PITY THAT IS TRYING TO DESTROY YOU AND TAKE BACK YOUR SELF-RESPECT AND YOUR SELF-IMAGE AND THEN, MAKE THE FUTURE THE MOST HAPPIEST YEARS OF YOUR LIFE. Here is some more important information behind the making of my painting titled; "The Blossoming of a Rose in a Starless Night" Now so that you know a all that went into my Prismacolor colored pencil painting, "The Blossoming of a Rose in a Starless Night", read the following; The gun in the picture, is a french dueling pistol from right around 1890, the year Van Gogh shot himself. In fact, I had the idea for this painting a year earlier, but I felt intimidated about doing the gun and I wanted to find the right gun from that time period. Then a year later, I went to the library looking for pictures of pistols from around that time to draw from. The librarian helped me. For about an hour we had looked through all the books, and didn't find the right one to draw from, then we searched on the Internet for another 20 minutes, we were just about to give up, when suddenly the man said, "Hey ! Look at this one !" Then he said, "The romantic side of me would tend to go with this gun, it's a french dueling pistol from around 1890." I immediately agreed as soon as he said the romantic side of him would go with this one. Only problem was. I felt that I couldn't possibly do the chrome on that gun, so I tried out the chrome a few times on! paper and it looked pretty darn good, so I knew that I could take a little more time and get it even closer looking to the actual picture. I drew the gun first, before anything else, because if I couldn't get the gun to look good enough, then I wouldn't waste any time going any further. It is all prismacolor colored pencils and it took me about 250 hours to do. Right where the blood is coming out of the hole it looks like a rose. Also, "Starless Night" You will notice that there are no stars in the back ground night sky or in the midnight blue sky of his jacket. STARS ALWAYS MEANT HOPE TO Van Gogh. Van Gogh usually did nighttime scenes with skies full of stars, like in his "Starry Night" painting. But he did two night time scenes the last two months of his life. I noticed that the first one only had two stars in it, and the next one he did, didn't have any stars in it ( meaning; no hope left ) in that second one, he did the night time sky with the crescent moon and it was dark green blended into orange towards the horizon, that is one of the reasons that I did the sky with those colors, but also the roof on the buildings are purple; ( therefore the background colors where made up of the secondary colors ) ! And the jacket, which also represents a canvas, or also a paint palette, the colors in it are red, yellow and blue, the three primary colors. I wrote all this so that you would know my complete thoughts behind this painting, so that you know just how much thought and planning that I do put in so many of my paintings. Now you know everything behind this Classic painting of mine. May your Nights always be full of Stars, which always meant Hope" to Van Gogh. Item Price  colored pencil, 20" x 16" $7,271,890.00  finished 2005 $7,271,890.00  20" x 16" unframed $7,271,890.00  Signed, Steve Kreuscher $7,271,890.00
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	Average Rating: Based on 1 critique. Write a critique Kyoko from Japan This is one of your amazing works of surrealism! The detail, composition and colors are superb! Surely it reminds me of Gogh.