Quantum physics proves that reality is in the eye of the beholder
I visited one of the Van Gogh immersive experiences recently, having purchased the tickets months ago on impulse to try something different. The experience exposes you to a lot of his work at once, hundreds of paintings all created in a short period of time. Indeed, for a while his productivity was one painting every 36 hours.
Van Gogh’s work is not intended to be true to life. He was certainly capable of making exact drawings. The effect of his art is to convey through color and thick wavy brushstrokes a world overlaid with emotional intensity. The world is not as it appears but rather the world through the eyes of the artist.
At the time Van Gogh was creating his art, the world of physics had reached the end of its classical period. Physics, largely drawing from the philosophy of English rationalism of the 18th century, portrayed a world where measurement was purely objective, with the measurer or observer invisible and irrelevant. In other words, everything in the world had a definite, objective state.
Van Gogh, on the other hand, was portraying a world not as it is but as he saw it. To the thinkers of the 19th century this was wrong; a single definite reality existed, apart from any individual observer.
