I really didn’t want to learn THAT much more. I found a few highly-rated biographies, but most were over 500 pages. What contributed to his unique personality? What was the deal with him cutting off his ear? Why did he shoot himself?Īs is typical for me, I did a bit of searching to find some books to read to learn more. Having recently visited the LUME van Gogh exhibit at Newfields art museum, my interest was piqued about Vincent van Gogh. While he could, sought to comfort people trough his paintings and he's doing it until now.

Vincent looked for love in a world who it couldn't give him back, he was underestimated in life but raised when passed away just like he thought. I have a lot of things to say about his life but I don't think I could be able to expose in a correctly way so I rather to keep it to myself. Impresionism and post-impresionism are my favorite artistic trends and here is one of those painters which always caught my attention. My intention isn't romanticize his tragic life or how depression consumed him, I just wanna express those feelings of melancholy, sadness and nostalgia this reading caused in me. Van Gogh just emmaned pure talent, he painted with so much pasion that his feelings it could see reflected in his works. Can you imagine how sad is that? My heart is broken in two pieces though. He saw only one way out.' This man died thinking he failed in life. This richly illustrated introduction follows Vincent van Gogh's story from his earliest pictures of peasants and rural workers, through his bright Parisian period, to his final, feverish burst of creative energy in the South of France during the last two and a half years of his life.Ībout the series: Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published.'Van Gogh had failed in every aspect of his life.

His episodes of depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life, when, in 1890, he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday. Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name, van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastating bouts of mental illness. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and drawings beyond, we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint, pencil, charcoal, or chalk. Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world.

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