How do you explain the world to a person that is blind? How do you define the beauty of the surroundings to someone who has never seen beauty? How do you describe a painting such as “The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Fatte”? “The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Fatte” Imagine, it’s a Sunday evening, You and that someone special in your life decide to take a romantic boat ride on the beautiful Seine River in Italy. The water is perfect for rowing. Just as you arrive the sun is beginning to set; it is now reflecting a reddish orange color on the water. You sit back and enjoy the slight breeze and all the surrounding beauty.
As you continue on your journey you soon come up to a long white stony bridge with 3 beautiful archways. Even the shadowing as you pass under is intriguing. Once you are through, you see a couple in a boat, and a couple standing on the bridge being mesmerized by the same atmosphere. As the sun continues to go down, the sky becomes even more beautiful as it takes on a mystic form.
Beginning to feel like you ” re really there? Well, all this is shown in Vincent Van Gogh’s portrait, “The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Fatte.” Although we are not actually there, just viewing or picturing the portrait is breath taking in itself. As one writer said, “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder” and the essence of it is in the imagination of the believer.
