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On July 27, 1890, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest in Auvers-sur-Oise. He died of his wound two days later. An excerpt from the article:
"Theo van Gogh described in his letter to his wife Johanna Bonger that Vincent seemed comfortable when he arrived at his brother’s bedside on July 28th. He found his Vincent sitting up, calmly smoking a pipe. Dr. Mazery, a Parisian obstetrician on holiday in Auvers-sur-Oise, had been called immediately. Dr. Gachet, who had been treating Vincent’s mental health, arrived later that evening. The police, summoned by the inn’s proprietor’s thirteen-year-old daughter Adéline Ravoux, asked the artist: 'Did you want to commit suicide?' Van Gogh responded: 'I believe so.' Adding: 'Do not accuse anyone. It is I who wanted to kill myself.'
"Theo van Gogh described in his letter to his wife Johanna Bonger that Vincent seemed comfortable when he arrived at his brother’s bedside on July 28th. He found his Vincent sitting up, calmly smoking a pipe. Dr. Mazery, a Parisian obstetrician on holiday in Auvers-sur-Oise, had been called immediately. Dr. Gachet, who had been treating Vincent’s mental health, arrived later that evening. The police, summoned by the inn’s proprietor’s thirteen-year-old daughter Adéline Ravoux, asked the artist: 'Did you want to commit suicide?' Van Gogh responded: 'I believe so.' Adding: 'Do not accuse anyone. It is I who wanted to kill myself.'
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Humble Genius
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Humble Genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2i5ca1RT4
Images:
1. Vincent Van Gogh. courtesy of the Library of Congress
2. Vincent Van Gogh - Still Life Vase With Twelve Sunflowers
3. Vincent van Gogh – The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, 1888 (left) – Still Life Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1888 (right)
Background from {[ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Tu-We/van-Gogh-Vincent.html}}
Born: March 30, 1853
Groot-Zundert, Holland
Died: July 29, 1890
Auvers, France
Dutch painter
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter whose formal distortions and humanistic concerns made him a major pioneer of twentieth-century expressionism, an artistic movement that emphasized expression of the artist's experience.
Childhood
Born on March 30, 1853, at Groot-Zundert in the province of Brabant, Holland, Vincent Willem Van Gogh was the son of a Protestant minister, Theodorus Van Gogh. Exactly a year before his birth, his mother, Cornelia, gave birth to an infant, also named Vincent, who was stillborn, or dead upon birth. His grieving parents buried the child and set up a tombstone to mark the grave. As a result, Vincent Van Gogh grew up near the haunting sight of a grave with his own name upon it. His mother later gave birth to Theo, his younger brother, and three younger sisters. Not much is known about Van Gogh's earlier education, but he did receive some encouragement from his mother to draw and paint. As a teenager he drew and painted regularly.
Van Gogh's uncle was a partner in Goupil and Company, art dealers. Vincent entered the firm at the age of sixteen and remained there for six years. He served the firm first in The Hague, the political seat of the Netherlands, and then in London, England, where he fell in love with his landlady's daughter, who rejected him. Later he worked for Goupil's branch in Paris, France.
Because of Van Gogh's unpleasant attitude, Goupil dismissed him in 1876. That year he returned to England, worked at a small school at Ramsgate, and did some preaching. In early 1877 he clerked in a bookshop in Dordrecht. Then, convinced that the ministry ought to be his calling, he joined a religious seminary in Brussels, Belgium. He left three months later to become an evangelist (a preacher) in a poor mining section of Belgium, the Borinage. Van Gogh exhibited the necessary dedication, even giving away his clothes, but his odd behavior kept the miners at a distance. Once again, in July 1879, he found himself dismissed from a job. This period was a dark one for Van Gogh. He wished to give himself to others but was constantly being rejected.
In 1880, after much soul searching, Van Gogh decided to devote his life to art, a profession he accepted as a spiritual calling. When in London he had visited museums, and he had drawn a little while in the Borinage. In October 1880 he attended an art school in Brussels, where he studied the basics of perspective (representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface) and anatomy (the human body). From April to December 1881 he stayed with his parents, who were then in Etten, and continued to work on his art. At this time, too, he studied at the academic art school at The Hague, where his cousin Anton Mauve taught.
Dutch period
During Van Gogh's Dutch period (1880–1886) he created works in which his overriding concerns for his fellow man were growing. His subjects were poor people, miners, peasants, and inhabitants of almshouses, or houses for the poor. Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet (1814–1875), Rembrandt (1606–1669), and Honoré Daumier (1808–1879). Complementing Van Gogh's dreary subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish shades. The masterpiece of Van Gogh's Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
Van Gogh decided to go to Paris in early 1886, partially because he was drawn to the simple and artistic life of the French city. His younger brother, Theo, was living in Paris, where he directed a small gallery maintained by Goupil and Company. Theo had supported Vincent financially and emotionally from the time he decided to become a painter, and would continue to do so throughout his life. The letters between the brothers are among the most moving documents in all the history of Western art. Vincent shared Theo's apartment and studied at an art school run by the traditional painter Fernand Cormon, where he met Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), who became his friends.
By now Van Gogh was largely under the influence of the impressionists, a style of painting where the artist concentrates on the immediate impression of a scene by the use of light and color. Especially influenced by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), Van Gogh was persuaded to give up the gloomy tones of his Dutch period for bright, high-keyed colors. Also, his subject matter changed from the world of peasants to a typically impressionistic subject matter, such as cafés and cityscapes around Montmartre, an area of northern Paris. He also copied Japanese prints. While subjects and handling were obviously taken from impressionism, there frequently could be detected a certain sad quality, as in a scene of Montmartre (1886), where pedestrians are pushed to the outer sides of an open square.
Stay at Arles
Longing for a place of light and warmth, and tired of being entirely financially dependent on Theo, Van Gogh left for Arles in southern France in February 1888. The pleasant country about Arles and the warmth of the place restored Van Gogh to health. In his fifteen months there he painted over two hundred pictures. At this time he applied color in simplified, highly dense masses, his drawing became more energetic and confused than ever before, and objects seemed to radiate a light of their own without giving off shadows. During this period he also turned to painting portraits and executed several self-portraits. Among the masterpieces of his Arles period are the Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries (June 1888); the Night Café (September); and the Artist's Bedroom at Arles (October).
At Arles Van Gogh suffered fainting spells and seizures (involuntary muscle
spasms). The local population began to turn against him as well. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), responding to his invitation, visited him in October 1888, but the two men quarreled violently. Gauguin left for Paris. Van Gogh, in a fit of remorse and anger, cut off his ear. On May 9, 1889, he asked to be admitted to the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de Provence, a hospital for the mentally ill.
Production at Saint-Rémy
In the year Van Gogh spent at the asylum he worked as much as he had at Arles, producing 150 paintings and hundreds of drawings. Van Gogh suffered several attacks but was completely peaceful in between. At this time he received his first critical praise (a good review), an article by the writer Albert Aurier.
During Van Gogh's stay at Saint-Rémy, his art changed markedly. His colors lost the intensity of the Arles period: yellows became coppers; reds verged toward brownish tones. His lines became restless. He applied the paint more violently with thicker impasto, the application of thick layers. Van Gogh was drawn to objects in nature under stress: whirling suns, twisted cypress trees, and surging mountains. In Starry Night (1889) the whole world seems engulfed by circular movements.
Van Gogh went to Paris on May 17, 1890, to visit his brother. On the advice of Pissarro, Theo had Vincent go to Auvers, just outside Paris, to submit to the care of Dr. Paul Gachet, an amateur painter and a friend of Pissarro and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).
Last year at Auvers
Van Gogh arrived at Auvers on May 21, 1890. He painted a portrait of Dr. Gachet and portraits of his daughters, as well as the Church of Auvers. The blue of the Auvers period was not the full blue of Arles but a more mysterious, flickering blue. In his last painting, the Cornfield with Crows, Van Gogh showed a topsy-turvy world. The spectator himself becomes the object of perspective, and it is toward him that the crows appear to be flying.
At first Van Gogh felt relieved at Auvers, but toward the end of June he experienced fits of temper and often quarreled with Gachet. On July 27, 1890, he shot himself in a lonely field and died the morning of July 29, 1890."
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Vincent Van Gogh: The Humble Genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI2i5ca1RT4
Images:
1. Vincent Van Gogh. courtesy of the Library of Congress
2. Vincent Van Gogh - Still Life Vase With Twelve Sunflowers
3. Vincent van Gogh – The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, 1888 (left) – Still Life Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1888 (right)
Background from {[ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Tu-We/van-Gogh-Vincent.html}}
Born: March 30, 1853
Groot-Zundert, Holland
Died: July 29, 1890
Auvers, France
Dutch painter
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter whose formal distortions and humanistic concerns made him a major pioneer of twentieth-century expressionism, an artistic movement that emphasized expression of the artist's experience.
Childhood
Born on March 30, 1853, at Groot-Zundert in the province of Brabant, Holland, Vincent Willem Van Gogh was the son of a Protestant minister, Theodorus Van Gogh. Exactly a year before his birth, his mother, Cornelia, gave birth to an infant, also named Vincent, who was stillborn, or dead upon birth. His grieving parents buried the child and set up a tombstone to mark the grave. As a result, Vincent Van Gogh grew up near the haunting sight of a grave with his own name upon it. His mother later gave birth to Theo, his younger brother, and three younger sisters. Not much is known about Van Gogh's earlier education, but he did receive some encouragement from his mother to draw and paint. As a teenager he drew and painted regularly.
Van Gogh's uncle was a partner in Goupil and Company, art dealers. Vincent entered the firm at the age of sixteen and remained there for six years. He served the firm first in The Hague, the political seat of the Netherlands, and then in London, England, where he fell in love with his landlady's daughter, who rejected him. Later he worked for Goupil's branch in Paris, France.
Because of Van Gogh's unpleasant attitude, Goupil dismissed him in 1876. That year he returned to England, worked at a small school at Ramsgate, and did some preaching. In early 1877 he clerked in a bookshop in Dordrecht. Then, convinced that the ministry ought to be his calling, he joined a religious seminary in Brussels, Belgium. He left three months later to become an evangelist (a preacher) in a poor mining section of Belgium, the Borinage. Van Gogh exhibited the necessary dedication, even giving away his clothes, but his odd behavior kept the miners at a distance. Once again, in July 1879, he found himself dismissed from a job. This period was a dark one for Van Gogh. He wished to give himself to others but was constantly being rejected.
In 1880, after much soul searching, Van Gogh decided to devote his life to art, a profession he accepted as a spiritual calling. When in London he had visited museums, and he had drawn a little while in the Borinage. In October 1880 he attended an art school in Brussels, where he studied the basics of perspective (representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface) and anatomy (the human body). From April to December 1881 he stayed with his parents, who were then in Etten, and continued to work on his art. At this time, too, he studied at the academic art school at The Hague, where his cousin Anton Mauve taught.
Dutch period
During Van Gogh's Dutch period (1880–1886) he created works in which his overriding concerns for his fellow man were growing. His subjects were poor people, miners, peasants, and inhabitants of almshouses, or houses for the poor. Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet (1814–1875), Rembrandt (1606–1669), and Honoré Daumier (1808–1879). Complementing Van Gogh's dreary subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish shades. The masterpiece of Van Gogh's Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
Van Gogh decided to go to Paris in early 1886, partially because he was drawn to the simple and artistic life of the French city. His younger brother, Theo, was living in Paris, where he directed a small gallery maintained by Goupil and Company. Theo had supported Vincent financially and emotionally from the time he decided to become a painter, and would continue to do so throughout his life. The letters between the brothers are among the most moving documents in all the history of Western art. Vincent shared Theo's apartment and studied at an art school run by the traditional painter Fernand Cormon, where he met Émile Bernard (1868–1941) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901), who became his friends.
By now Van Gogh was largely under the influence of the impressionists, a style of painting where the artist concentrates on the immediate impression of a scene by the use of light and color. Especially influenced by Camille Pissarro (1830–1903), Van Gogh was persuaded to give up the gloomy tones of his Dutch period for bright, high-keyed colors. Also, his subject matter changed from the world of peasants to a typically impressionistic subject matter, such as cafés and cityscapes around Montmartre, an area of northern Paris. He also copied Japanese prints. While subjects and handling were obviously taken from impressionism, there frequently could be detected a certain sad quality, as in a scene of Montmartre (1886), where pedestrians are pushed to the outer sides of an open square.
Stay at Arles
Longing for a place of light and warmth, and tired of being entirely financially dependent on Theo, Van Gogh left for Arles in southern France in February 1888. The pleasant country about Arles and the warmth of the place restored Van Gogh to health. In his fifteen months there he painted over two hundred pictures. At this time he applied color in simplified, highly dense masses, his drawing became more energetic and confused than ever before, and objects seemed to radiate a light of their own without giving off shadows. During this period he also turned to painting portraits and executed several self-portraits. Among the masterpieces of his Arles period are the Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries (June 1888); the Night Café (September); and the Artist's Bedroom at Arles (October).
At Arles Van Gogh suffered fainting spells and seizures (involuntary muscle
spasms). The local population began to turn against him as well. Paul Gauguin (1848–1903), responding to his invitation, visited him in October 1888, but the two men quarreled violently. Gauguin left for Paris. Van Gogh, in a fit of remorse and anger, cut off his ear. On May 9, 1889, he asked to be admitted to the asylum at Saint-Rémy-de Provence, a hospital for the mentally ill.
Production at Saint-Rémy
In the year Van Gogh spent at the asylum he worked as much as he had at Arles, producing 150 paintings and hundreds of drawings. Van Gogh suffered several attacks but was completely peaceful in between. At this time he received his first critical praise (a good review), an article by the writer Albert Aurier.
During Van Gogh's stay at Saint-Rémy, his art changed markedly. His colors lost the intensity of the Arles period: yellows became coppers; reds verged toward brownish tones. His lines became restless. He applied the paint more violently with thicker impasto, the application of thick layers. Van Gogh was drawn to objects in nature under stress: whirling suns, twisted cypress trees, and surging mountains. In Starry Night (1889) the whole world seems engulfed by circular movements.
Van Gogh went to Paris on May 17, 1890, to visit his brother. On the advice of Pissarro, Theo had Vincent go to Auvers, just outside Paris, to submit to the care of Dr. Paul Gachet, an amateur painter and a friend of Pissarro and Paul Cézanne (1839–1906).
Last year at Auvers
Van Gogh arrived at Auvers on May 21, 1890. He painted a portrait of Dr. Gachet and portraits of his daughters, as well as the Church of Auvers. The blue of the Auvers period was not the full blue of Arles but a more mysterious, flickering blue. In his last painting, the Cornfield with Crows, Van Gogh showed a topsy-turvy world. The spectator himself becomes the object of perspective, and it is toward him that the crows appear to be flying.
At first Van Gogh felt relieved at Auvers, but toward the end of June he experienced fits of temper and often quarreled with Gachet. On July 27, 1890, he shot himself in a lonely field and died the morning of July 29, 1890."
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Vincent van Gogh - The story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OATfOTMHeQ
Images:
1. Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), Self-Portrait With a Straw Hat and Artist's Smock, 1887
2. Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night, 1889
3. Vincent van Gogh – The Yellow House, 1888
4. Vincent van Gogh 'Sunflowers' oil on canvas painted in 1888
Background from {[https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/vincent-van-gogh/artworks]}
"Vincent van Gogh / Vincent Willem van Gogh
Netherlands 1853 - 1890
It’s a challenge to find a more sounding name in art history then Vincent van Gogh. He was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion, style and color, highly influenced 20th century art. The legendary painter stands as one of the most iconic artists of all time, with his name written down as the greatest Dutch painter in history, only rivaled by Rembrandt for that spot. The biggest difference between the two (aside the logical artistic and historic placements) is the fact Vincent remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Vincent’s work stands as a perfect fusion of form and content – powerful, dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative and emotional.
Childhood
The painter was born on March 30, 1853, in a small town Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. His father, Theodorus van Gogh, was employed as a minister, while Vincent’s mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was an artist. As only fate is capable of writing such stories, exactly a year before young Vincent was born, Anna had a stillbirth and that baby was supposed to be named Vincent. That was a first clue of how morbid and dark Van Gogh’s life will turn out to be, as his name and birthday were already carved on a headstone inside of a local cemetery. Quite a melancholic way to start a life. Both parents had a huge influence on their son. Vincent Van Gogh wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a minister one day, while his mother’s teachings and love of nature, drawing and watercolors found a place in his heart as well.
Early Life
In a time when Vincent was about the age of fifteen, the van Goghs were struggling financially and the father decided against his son’s wishes that he is to leave school without graduating and start providing for his family. Luckily for Van Gogh, his mother’s ties to the artistic scene presented him with an opportunity to work in his uncle’s art dealership, Goupil & Cie. This was a firm of art dealers and enthusiasts in Hague, so logically that meant Vincent was about to go away from Groot-Zundert for the first time in his life. In June of 1873, he was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London. It was here Vincent met and fell in love with Eugenie Loyer, his landlady’s daughter. Eventually, he asked her hand in marriage and she refused – this was the cause of van Gogh’s first serious mental breakdown.
The Christ of the Coal Mines
After getting rejected by the young lady he loved, Vincent threw away all his books except for the Bible. He became bitter and resentful, which logically applied to his job performance. He started talking to customers in a rude manner. It wasn’t long before he got fired. This was not a big issue for van Gogh as he had already planned to leave England and try to pass the pastor’s exam in the School of Theology in Amsterdam. When he was given a chance to do so, Vincent refused to do the part of the exam that required him to speak in Latin. He was not allowed to participate in the exam. After seeing no church will hire him, van Gogh volunteered to move to a coal mine in the south of Belgium, a place where man were usually sent as punishment. He preached and ministered to the sick and also drew pictures of the miners and their families, who called him The Christ of the Coal Mines.
Brussels And Hague
In the fall of 1880, van Gogh moved to Brussels and become a artist. Having no formal knowledge of painting, he relied upon his mother’s teachings and the experience of drawing inside Belgian mines. His brother Teo supported him financially and provided van Gogh with a place to stay while he studied books like Travaux des champs by Jean-François Millet and Cours de dessin by Charles Bargue. However, van Gogh’s life continued to deteriorate. He fell in love with his recently widowed cousin, Kate and started stalking her to a point she actually fled to another city. After going through another suffering episode, Vincent moved to The Hague and met Clasina Maria Hoornik, an alcoholic prostitute. Eventually, she broke up with van Gogh and returned to a life of prostitution.
Vincent, The Artist
Throughout the tragedies that followed him on every turn, Van Gogh’s art helped him stay emotionally balanced. In 1885, he began work on what is considered to be his first masterpiece, Potato Eaters.Although no one believed this painting will be taken seriously in Paris, Vincent decided he will still go to the French capital and try to establish himself as a contemporary artist. In March 1886, Theo welcomed his brother into his small apartment located in the middle of Paris. In this art-defining city, van Gogh first saw impressionist works and was inspired by the color and light, the vividness of it all. He began studying with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and others.
This particular van Gogh piece was sold for over 80 million dollars in 1990
The Complete Breakdown
In February 1888, van Gogh boarded a train to the south of France. He moved into the famous little yellow house, started perfecting his style and spending all his money on paint. Before long, it became apparent that in addition to suffering from physical illness, his psychological health was declining. After seeing him, Theo was worried and offered Paul Gauguin money to go watch over van Gogh in Arles. Paul accepted and one night they argued so intensely that Gauguin walked out in the middle of the night. Van Gogh followed him, holding a razor in his hand. After being unable to find Paul, van Gogh went to the local brothel and wanted a prostitute named Rachel. With blood pouring from his hand, he offered her his ear as payment. The police found him in his room the next morning and admitted him to the Hôtel-Dieuhospital.
Van Gogh loved painting the famous yellow house in which he lost his sanity
The End Of A Sad Story
On January 7, 1889, van Gogh was released from the hospital. He would paint at the yellow house during the day and return to the hospital at night. After the locals signed a petition saying that van Gogh was dangerous, he decided to move to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum. A year and a half later, van Gogh started to feel better and made a choice to move to Auvers. He was okay for a while but soon returned to his psychological state of panic and craziness. On July 27, 1890, van Gogh went out to paint in the morning as usual, but only this time he carried a loaded pistol. He shot himself in the chest and was taken to a nearby hospital and his doctors sent for Theo. They spent the next couple of days talking together before van Gogh asked Theo to take him home. On July 29, 1890, Vincent van Gogh died in the arms of his brother.
The Legacy
Van Gogh’s finest works were produced in less than three years and were done using a technique that grew more and more intense in brushstroke, in symbolic and strong color, in surface tension and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Ultimately, Vincent completed more than 2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 drawings and sketches. Today, his pieces are considered to be some of the most expensive possessions in the world – but during his lifetime, van Gog managed to sell only one of his paintings. The story of van Gogh remains as one of most disturbing ones in art history, showing just how much fate loves toying with irony – arguably the most important artist of all time was cursed to live perhaps the toughest life of all the painters that ever were."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OATfOTMHeQ
Images:
1. Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), Self-Portrait With a Straw Hat and Artist's Smock, 1887
2. Vincent van Gogh – The Starry Night, 1889
3. Vincent van Gogh – The Yellow House, 1888
4. Vincent van Gogh 'Sunflowers' oil on canvas painted in 1888
Background from {[https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/vincent-van-gogh/artworks]}
"Vincent van Gogh / Vincent Willem van Gogh
Netherlands 1853 - 1890
It’s a challenge to find a more sounding name in art history then Vincent van Gogh. He was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion, style and color, highly influenced 20th century art. The legendary painter stands as one of the most iconic artists of all time, with his name written down as the greatest Dutch painter in history, only rivaled by Rembrandt for that spot. The biggest difference between the two (aside the logical artistic and historic placements) is the fact Vincent remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Vincent’s work stands as a perfect fusion of form and content – powerful, dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative and emotional.
Childhood
The painter was born on March 30, 1853, in a small town Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. His father, Theodorus van Gogh, was employed as a minister, while Vincent’s mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was an artist. As only fate is capable of writing such stories, exactly a year before young Vincent was born, Anna had a stillbirth and that baby was supposed to be named Vincent. That was a first clue of how morbid and dark Van Gogh’s life will turn out to be, as his name and birthday were already carved on a headstone inside of a local cemetery. Quite a melancholic way to start a life. Both parents had a huge influence on their son. Vincent Van Gogh wanted to follow in his father’s footsteps and be a minister one day, while his mother’s teachings and love of nature, drawing and watercolors found a place in his heart as well.
Early Life
In a time when Vincent was about the age of fifteen, the van Goghs were struggling financially and the father decided against his son’s wishes that he is to leave school without graduating and start providing for his family. Luckily for Van Gogh, his mother’s ties to the artistic scene presented him with an opportunity to work in his uncle’s art dealership, Goupil & Cie. This was a firm of art dealers and enthusiasts in Hague, so logically that meant Vincent was about to go away from Groot-Zundert for the first time in his life. In June of 1873, he was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London. It was here Vincent met and fell in love with Eugenie Loyer, his landlady’s daughter. Eventually, he asked her hand in marriage and she refused – this was the cause of van Gogh’s first serious mental breakdown.
The Christ of the Coal Mines
After getting rejected by the young lady he loved, Vincent threw away all his books except for the Bible. He became bitter and resentful, which logically applied to his job performance. He started talking to customers in a rude manner. It wasn’t long before he got fired. This was not a big issue for van Gogh as he had already planned to leave England and try to pass the pastor’s exam in the School of Theology in Amsterdam. When he was given a chance to do so, Vincent refused to do the part of the exam that required him to speak in Latin. He was not allowed to participate in the exam. After seeing no church will hire him, van Gogh volunteered to move to a coal mine in the south of Belgium, a place where man were usually sent as punishment. He preached and ministered to the sick and also drew pictures of the miners and their families, who called him The Christ of the Coal Mines.
Brussels And Hague
In the fall of 1880, van Gogh moved to Brussels and become a artist. Having no formal knowledge of painting, he relied upon his mother’s teachings and the experience of drawing inside Belgian mines. His brother Teo supported him financially and provided van Gogh with a place to stay while he studied books like Travaux des champs by Jean-François Millet and Cours de dessin by Charles Bargue. However, van Gogh’s life continued to deteriorate. He fell in love with his recently widowed cousin, Kate and started stalking her to a point she actually fled to another city. After going through another suffering episode, Vincent moved to The Hague and met Clasina Maria Hoornik, an alcoholic prostitute. Eventually, she broke up with van Gogh and returned to a life of prostitution.
Vincent, The Artist
Throughout the tragedies that followed him on every turn, Van Gogh’s art helped him stay emotionally balanced. In 1885, he began work on what is considered to be his first masterpiece, Potato Eaters.Although no one believed this painting will be taken seriously in Paris, Vincent decided he will still go to the French capital and try to establish himself as a contemporary artist. In March 1886, Theo welcomed his brother into his small apartment located in the middle of Paris. In this art-defining city, van Gogh first saw impressionist works and was inspired by the color and light, the vividness of it all. He began studying with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and others.
This particular van Gogh piece was sold for over 80 million dollars in 1990
The Complete Breakdown
In February 1888, van Gogh boarded a train to the south of France. He moved into the famous little yellow house, started perfecting his style and spending all his money on paint. Before long, it became apparent that in addition to suffering from physical illness, his psychological health was declining. After seeing him, Theo was worried and offered Paul Gauguin money to go watch over van Gogh in Arles. Paul accepted and one night they argued so intensely that Gauguin walked out in the middle of the night. Van Gogh followed him, holding a razor in his hand. After being unable to find Paul, van Gogh went to the local brothel and wanted a prostitute named Rachel. With blood pouring from his hand, he offered her his ear as payment. The police found him in his room the next morning and admitted him to the Hôtel-Dieuhospital.
Van Gogh loved painting the famous yellow house in which he lost his sanity
The End Of A Sad Story
On January 7, 1889, van Gogh was released from the hospital. He would paint at the yellow house during the day and return to the hospital at night. After the locals signed a petition saying that van Gogh was dangerous, he decided to move to the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum. A year and a half later, van Gogh started to feel better and made a choice to move to Auvers. He was okay for a while but soon returned to his psychological state of panic and craziness. On July 27, 1890, van Gogh went out to paint in the morning as usual, but only this time he carried a loaded pistol. He shot himself in the chest and was taken to a nearby hospital and his doctors sent for Theo. They spent the next couple of days talking together before van Gogh asked Theo to take him home. On July 29, 1890, Vincent van Gogh died in the arms of his brother.
The Legacy
Van Gogh’s finest works were produced in less than three years and were done using a technique that grew more and more intense in brushstroke, in symbolic and strong color, in surface tension and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Ultimately, Vincent completed more than 2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 drawings and sketches. Today, his pieces are considered to be some of the most expensive possessions in the world – but during his lifetime, van Gog managed to sell only one of his paintings. The story of van Gogh remains as one of most disturbing ones in art history, showing just how much fate loves toying with irony – arguably the most important artist of all time was cursed to live perhaps the toughest life of all the painters that ever were."
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Vincent van Gogh & Paul Gauguin: Artistic Friendship | Full Documentary | Biography
In October 1888, two struggling artists joined forces in a tiny yellow house in the South of France. This is the story of the tense friendship between Vincen...
Vincent van Gogh & Paul Gauguin: Artistic Friendship | Full Documentary | Biography
In October 1888, two struggling artists joined forces in a tiny yellow house in the South of France. This is the story of the tense friendship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and their "Studio of the South".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rTfLkS2l8
Images:
1. Vincent van Gogh 'Starry Night Over the Rhône ' 1888.
2. Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers in a vase
3. Vincent van Gogh – Two self-portraits with bandaged ear made in 1889
Background from {[ https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/biography.html]}
Birth Year : 1853
Death Year : 1890
Country : Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh, one of the most well-known post-impressionist artists, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853.
The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity and with direction. He believed that his true calling was to preach the gospel; however, it took years for him to discover his calling as an artist. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had already experienced two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium) where he was dismissed for overzealousness.
He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885) . In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886, he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin. Having met the new Impressionist painters, he tried to imitate their techniques; he began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brush strokes of the Impressionists’ style. Unable to successfully copy the style, he developed his own more bold and unconventional style. In 1888, Van Gogh decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. At The Yellow House, van Gogh hoped like-minded artists could create together. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. Van Gogh’s nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890, after a couple of years at the asylum, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later, he died from what is believed to have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound "for the good of all." During his brief career, he did not experience much success, he sold only one painting, lived in poverty, malnourished and overworked. The money he had was supplied by his brother, Theo, and was used primarily for art supplies, coffee and cigarettes.
Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brush stroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
In spite of his lack of success during his lifetime, van Gogh’s legacy lives on having left a lasting impact on the world of art. Van Gogh is now viewed as one of the most influential artists having helped lay the foundations of modern art."
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In October 1888, two struggling artists joined forces in a tiny yellow house in the South of France. This is the story of the tense friendship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin and their "Studio of the South".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8rTfLkS2l8
Images:
1. Vincent van Gogh 'Starry Night Over the Rhône ' 1888.
2. Vincent van Gogh - Sunflowers in a vase
3. Vincent van Gogh – Two self-portraits with bandaged ear made in 1889
Background from {[ https://www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/biography.html]}
Birth Year : 1853
Death Year : 1890
Country : Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh, one of the most well-known post-impressionist artists, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853.
The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity and with direction. He believed that his true calling was to preach the gospel; however, it took years for him to discover his calling as an artist. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had already experienced two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium) where he was dismissed for overzealousness.
He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885) . In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886, he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin. Having met the new Impressionist painters, he tried to imitate their techniques; he began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brush strokes of the Impressionists’ style. Unable to successfully copy the style, he developed his own more bold and unconventional style. In 1888, Van Gogh decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. At The Yellow House, van Gogh hoped like-minded artists could create together. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. Van Gogh’s nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. Near the end of 1888, an incident led Gauguin to ultimately leave Arles. Van Gogh pursued him with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting a portion of his own ear lobe off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890, after a couple of years at the asylum, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later, he died from what is believed to have been a self-inflicted gunshot wound "for the good of all." During his brief career, he did not experience much success, he sold only one painting, lived in poverty, malnourished and overworked. The money he had was supplied by his brother, Theo, and was used primarily for art supplies, coffee and cigarettes.
Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brush stroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.
In spite of his lack of success during his lifetime, van Gogh’s legacy lives on having left a lasting impact on the world of art. Van Gogh is now viewed as one of the most influential artists having helped lay the foundations of modern art."
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He suffered from depression his entire adult life. He did some amazing painting and designs but couldn't see the value of them, himself
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