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This is the last painting Van Gogh painted before he committed suicide. * Image of key of dreams by Magritte * “Images were first made to conjure up the appearance of something that was absent. Gradually it became evident that an image could outlast what it represented; it then showed how something or somebody had once looked—and thus by implication how the subject had once been seen by other people. Later still the specific vision of the image-maker was also recognized as part of the record. An image became a record of how X had seen Y.” * * It’s reasonable to consider a painting’s composition. But here the composition is written about as though it were in itself the emotional charge of the painting. Terms like those italized transfer the emotion provoked by the image from the lane of lived experience, to that of disinterested “art appreciation”. All conlict disappe * * Close up of ladies * Regents of the Old Men’s Alms house by Hals Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House by Hals * These portray the Governors and Governesses of an alms House for old paupers in the Dutch 17th century city of Haarlem. They were officially commissioned portraits. Hals, an old man of over eighty, way destitute. Most of his life he was in debt. The year he painted these paintings, he received charity of three loads of peat, otherwise he would have frozen to death. Those who posed for these pictures are the administrators of such charity. * Regents of the Old Men’s Alms house by Hals Regentesses of the Old Men’s Alms House by Hals * Close-up of Governor * This leads us to Mystification In this confrontation the Regents and Regentesses stare at Hals, a destitute old painter who has lost his reputation and lives off public charity; he examines them through the eyes of a pauper who must nevertheless try to be objective; i.e., must try to surmount the way he sees as a pauper. This is the drama of these paintings. A drama of an “unforgettable contrast.” Mystification has littl