Tilt-Shift Vincent

I was recently turned on to a fairly simple photographic technique that yields some pretty quirky results and the link I was sent used Vincent's works to illustrate it. Called tilt-shift photography, it requires the use of a special camera lens that gives a real world scene (or in this case, oil paintings) the look of a miniature model. While some have complained that this technique has given Vincent's paintings the amateurish look of a children's diorama, I personally find it wonderful. Seeing his work in this new way, looking vaguely reminiscent of photographs of a tiny model train world, is just thrilling and in this way his paintings have taken on a new dimension and vibrancy. And as generally unhappy and restless as Vincent was, I think seeing his work, however briefly, as funky and fun would be something that Vincent himself might have enjoyed.

The Harvest, 1888

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/hot/tilt-shift-van-gogh.htm