The Van Gogh Paintings as art served ancient peoples as a medium to purify and refine the human spirit. The well studied and observant artist through his own meditation gives life to the animated states, feelings, and spiritual essence of the animals and humans he paints. The purification or refinement of the observers spirit occurs through the inspired artists ability to communicate the Monet paintings (man or animal): spirit, animation, feelings, thoughts, and the scene or stage of the subject, with all of its colors and form.