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    Vincent Van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter born in 1853 in the Netherlands. He struggled with mental illness and poverty throughout his life. Some of his most famous paintings include The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, and Starry Night. In 1890, depressed and poor, Van Gogh fatally shot himself in the chest at age 37. He died in his brother Theo's arms and was buried alongside him, as Theo had been his lifelong supporter. Van Gogh's artwork gained immense fame after his death and he is now considered one of history's greatest artists.

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    Vincent Van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter born in 1853 in the Netherlands. He struggled with mental illness and poverty throughout his life. Some of his most famous paintings include The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, and Starry Night. In 1890, depressed and poor, Van Gogh fatally shot himself in the chest at age 37. He died in his brother Theo's arms and was buried alongside him, as Theo had been his lifelong supporter. Van Gogh's artwork gained immense fame after his death and he is now considered one of history's greatest artists.

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    Vincent Van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter born in 1853 in the Netherlands. He struggled with mental illness and poverty throughout his life. Some of his most famous paintings include The Potato Eaters, Sunflowers, and Starry Night. In 1890, depressed and poor, Van Gogh fatally shot himself in the chest at age 37. He died in his brother Theo's arms and was buried alongside him, as Theo had been his lifelong supporter. Van Gogh's artwork gained immense fame after his death and he is now considered one of history's greatest artists.

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    Vincent Van Gogh

    All about Vincent Van Gogh


    Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh’s father,
    Theodorus van Gogh, was an austere country minister, and his mother, Anna Cornelia
    Carbentus, was a moody artist whose love of nature, drawing and watercolors was transferred
    to her son.
    Van Gogh was born exactly one year after his parents' first son, also named Vincent, was
    stillborn. At a young age — with his name and birthdate already etched on his dead brother's
    headstone — van Gogh was melancholy.
    The eldest of six living children, van Gogh had two younger brothers (Theo, who worked as an
    art dealer and supported his older brother’s art, and Cor) and three younger sisters (Anna,
    Elizabeth and Willemien).
    Theo van Gogh would later play an important role in his older brother's life as a confidant,
    supporter and art dealer.
    Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter whose work — notable for its beauty,
    emotion and color — highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness and
    remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
    At age 15, van Gogh's family was struggling financially, and he was forced to leave school and
    go to work. He got a job at his Uncle Cornelis' art dealership, Goupil & Cie., a firm of art dealers
    in The Hague. By this time, van Gogh was fluent in French, German and English, as well as his
    native Dutch.
    In June of 1873, van Gogh was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London. There, he fell in
    love with English culture. He visited art galleries in his spare time, and also became a fan of the
    writings of Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
    He also fell in love with his landlady's daughter, Eugenie Loyer. When she rejected his marriage
    proposal, van Gogh suffered a breakdown. He threw away all his books except for the Bible, and
    devoted his life to God. He became angry with people at work, telling customers not to buy the
    "worthless art," and was eventually fired.
    Van Gogh the painter
    In the fall of 1880, van Gogh decided to move to Brussels and become an artist. Though he had
    no formal art training, his brother Theo offered to support van Gogh financially.
    He began taking lessons on his own, studying books like Travaux des champs by Jean-François
    Millet and Cours de dessin by Charles Bargue.
    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." Theo, who by this time living in Paris,
    believed the painting would not be well-received in the French capital,
    where Impressionism had become the trend.
    Nevertheless, van Gogh decided to move to Paris, and showed up at Theo's house uninvited. In
    March 1886, Theo welcomed his brother into his small apartment.
    In Paris, van Gogh first saw Impressionist art, and he was inspired by the color and light. He
    began studying with Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Camille Pissarro and others.
    To save money, he and his friends posed for each other instead of hiring models. Van Gogh was
    passionate, and he argued with other painters about their works, alienating those who became
    tired of his bickering.

    Famous paintings
    Vincent van Gogh completed more than 2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more
    than 1,300 watercolors, drawings and sketches.
    Several of his paintings now rank among the most expensive in the world; "Irises" sold for a
    record $53.9 million, and his "Portrait of Dr. Gachet" sold for $82.5 million. A few of van Gogh’s
    most well-known artworks include:
    The Potato Eaters
    The painting had to show the harsh reality of country life, so he gave the peasants coarse faces
    and bony, working hands. He painted the five figures in earth colours – ‘something like the
    colour of a really dusty potato, unpeeled of course’. The message of the painting was more
    important to Van Gogh than correct anatomy or technical perfection. He was very pleased with
    the result: yet his painting drew considerable criticism because its colours were so dark and the
    figures full of mistakes. Nowadays, the Potato Eaters is one of Van Gogh’s most famous works.
    'Sunflowers'
    Van Gogh painted two series of sunflowers in Arles, France: four between August and
    September 1888 and one in January 1889; the versions and replicas are debated among art
    historians.
    The oil paintings on canvas, which depict wilting yellow sunflowers in a vase, are now displayed
    at museums in London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Munich and Philadelphia
    Starry Night'
    Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" when he was staying in Saint-Rémy, France, in 1889, the
    year before his death. “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before
    sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” he wrote to his brother
    Theo.
    A combination of imagination, memory, emotion and observation, the oil painting on canvas
    depicts an expressive swirling night sky and a sleeping village, with a large flame-like cypress,
    thought to represent the bridge between life and death, looming in the foreground. The
    painting is currently housed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, NY.

    Facts
    1. In December 1888, van Gogh was living on coffee, bread and absinthe in Arles, France,
    and he found himself feeling sick and strange. Before long, it became apparent that in
    addition to suffering from physical illness, his psychological health was declining. Around
    this time, he is known to have sipped on turpentine and eaten paint. His brother Theo
    was worried, and he offered Paul Gauguin money to go watch over Vincent in Arles.
    Within a month, van Gogh and Gauguin were arguing constantly, and one night,
    Gauguin walked out. Van Gogh followed him, and when Gauguin turned around, he saw
    van Gogh holding a razor in his hand. Hours later, van Gogh went to the local brothel
    and paid for a prostitute named Rachel. With blood pouring from his hand, he offered
    her his ear, asking her to "keep this object carefully." The police found van Gogh in his
    room the next morning, and admitted him to the Hôtel-Dieu hospital. Theo arrived on
    Christmas Day to see van Gogh, who was weak from blood loss and having violent
    seizures. The doctors assured Theo that his brother would live and would be taken good
    care of, and on January 7, 1889, van Gogh was released from the hospital. He remained,
    however, alone and depressed. For hope, he turned to painting and nature, but could
    not find peace and was hospitalized again. He would paint at the yellow house during
    the day and return to the hospital at night.
    2. Theo's wife Johanna then collected as many of van Gogh's paintings as she could, but
    discovered that many had been destroyed or lost, as van Gogh's own mother had
    thrown away crates full of his art. On March 17, 1901, 71 of van Gogh's paintings were
    displayed at a show in Paris, and his fame grew enormously. His mother lived long
    enough to see her son hailed as an artistic genius. Today, Vincent van Gogh is
    considered one of the greatest artists in human history.

    Death
    On July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh went out to paint in the morning carrying a loaded
    pistol and shot himself in the chest, but the bullet did not kill him. He was found
    bleeding in his room.
    Van Gogh was distraught about his future because, in May of that year, his brother Theo
    had visited and spoke to him about needing to be stricter with his finances. Van Gogh
    took that to mean Theo was no longer interested in selling his art.
    Van Gogh was taken to a nearby hospital and his doctors sent for Theo, who arrived to
    find his brother sitting up in bed and smoking a pipe. They spent the next couple of days
    talking together, and then van Gogh asked Theo to take him home. On July 29, 1890,
    Vincent van Gogh died in the arms of his brother Theo. He was only 37 years old.
    Theo, who was suffering from syphilis and weakened by his brother's death, died six
    months after his brother in a Dutch asylum. He was buried in Utrecht, but in 1914 Theo's
    wife, Johanna, who was a dedicated supporter of van Gogh's works, had Theo's body
    reburied in the Auvers cemetery next to Vincent.

    References:

    https://www.biography.com/artists/vincent-van-gogh
    https://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/en/collection/s0005v1962
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh

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