Art has always played a role in everyone's way of life, and that is essentially because many of us can easily to the subtle facets of art. Artists have been forever placed at high pedestals and they have always been looked upon as a species higher than the rest. Which I think is not really how one should see it.

Everyone is the same, some do extraordinary things, and some do ordinary actions extraordinary.

One such real person, who did ordinary things with splendor and elegance, was Van Gogh.

Van Gogh Paintings are in actual reality simple work of art but yet leaves you with no other choice to gasp at its class and numerous layers of meaning. Van Gogh was a expressionist, he distorted reality for an emotional effect and with huge success.

His paintings especially The Potato Eaters showed the peasant class, in its true light. Many of his paintings have been loved mainly because of the really different color combinations that he chose to use and explore in depth. His use of the color Yellow was a matter of wide speculation as well.

People claim that his mental illness, played a major role in his paintings, which I think can be quite possible too. Because most of his well known paintings came around the time he was diagnosed to a yet unknown kind of mental illness. This makes me feel that he was very strong and resilient as well. He showed extreme consistency, and also at the same time he had a very keen eye for things around him.

Some of his other famous paintings are the Starry Night and the Olive Trees.

This rant is not only about celebrating his work, it's about the really unnoticed truth that we all can do simple actions with great genius. All we need is to open our eyes and minds and look around. We are ordinary men, who are just waiting to do extraordinary things.