Imagination vs. reality 𤲠Van Goghās artist friends, Emile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, challenged his views with their advocacy for painting from the imagination. During Gauguinās two-month stay in Arles, starting in late October 1888, Van Gogh experimented: āGauguin encourages me to work from my imagination, and things from the imagination do indeed take on a more mysterious character …
