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Van Gogh

By Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, as he called it himself, for various boarding schools. The first portrait shows us van Gogh as an earnest nineteen year old. At that time he had already been at work for three years in The Hague and, later, in London in the gallery Goupil & Co. In 1874 his love for Ursula Loyer ended in disaster and a year later he was transferred to Paris, against his will. After a particularly heated argument during Christmas holidays in 1881, his father, a pastor, ordered Vincent to leave. With this final break, he abandoned his family name and signed his canvases simply “Vincent”. He left for Paris and never returned to Holland. In Paris he came to know Paul Gauguin, whose paintings he greatly admired. The self-portrait was the main subject of Vincent’s work from 1886c88. In February 1888 Vincent left Paris for Arles and tried to persuade Gauguin to join him. The months of waiting for Gauguin were the most productive time in van Gogh’s life. He wanted to show his friend as many pictures as possible and decorate the Yellow House. But Gauguin did not share his views on art and finally returned to Paris. On 7 January, 1889, fourteen days after his famous self-mutilation, Vincent left the hospital where he was convalescing. Although he hoped to recover from and to forget his madness, but he actually came back twice more in the same year. During his last stay in hospital, Vincent painted landscapes in which he recreated the world of his childhood. It is said that Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the side in a field but decided to return to the inn and went to bed. The landlord informed Dr Gachet and his brother Theo, who described the last moments of his life which ended on 29 July, 1890: “I wanted to die. While I was sitting next to him promising that we would try to heal him. [...], he answered, ‘La tristesse durera toujours (The sadness will last forever).’”

Psychological Identity Grief Family Journey Found Family Nature & Wilderness

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1Introduction

2Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy, late August 1889

3Biography

4Beach at Scheveningen, The Hague: August 1882

5Weaver, Seen from the front, Nuenen: May 1884

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6Head of a Peasant, Nuenen: January 1885

7The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in the Snow, Nuenen: January 1885

8The Potato Eaters, Nuenen: April 1885

9Cottage with Decrepit Barn and Stooping Woman, Nuenen: July 1885

10Peasant Woman Digging, Neunen: August 1885

11Still Life with a Basket of Vegetables, Nuenen: September 1885

12Peasant Woman, Seated with White Cap, Nuenen: December 1884

13Portrait of Woman in Blue, Antwerp: December 1885

14Head of a Woman with her Hair down, Antwerp: December 1885

15The Bois de Boulogne with People Walking, Paris: Summer 1886

16A Pair of Shoes, Paris: early 1887

17A Pair of Shoes, Spring 1887

18Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Café du Tambourin, Paris: February–March 1887

19Le Moulin de la Galette, Paris: March 1887

20Flowerpot with Chives, Paris: March–April 1887

21Still Life with Red Cabbages and Onions, Paris: Autumn 1887

22Still Life with Basket of Apples (to Lucien Pissarro), Paris: Autumn 1887

23Portrait of Père Tanguy, Paris: Autumn 1887

24Japonaiserie: Oiran (after Keisai Eisen), Paris: September-October 1887

25Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige), Paris: September–October 1887

26Still Life with Decanter and Lemons on a Plate, Paris: Spring 1887

27Portrait of the Art Dealer Alexandre Reid, Paris: Spring 1887

28Woman Sitting by a Cradle, Paris: Spring 1887

29Memory of the Garden of Eden (Women of Arles), 1888

30Trunk of an Old Yew, Arles: 1888

31Self-Portrait in Front of Easel, Paris: January–February 1888

32An Old Woman from Arles, Arles: February 1888

33Langlois Bridge at Arles, Arles: April 1888

34Almond Tree in Blossom, Arles: April 1888

35Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries, Arles: early June 1888

36Street in Saintes-Maries, Arles: early June 1888

37Haystacks in Provence, Arles: June 1888

38The Zouave (half-length), Arles: June 1888

39Fishing Boats on the Beach at Saintes-Maries, Arles: end of June 1888

40La Mousmé, Arles: July 1888

41Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin, Arles: early August 1888

42The Pit, the Mills at Montmartre, Paris: autumn 1888

43Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, Arles: August 1888

44Portrait of Patience Escalier, Arles: August 1888

45Portrait of Eugène Boch, Arles: September 1888

46Café at Night, Arles: September 1888

47Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin), Arles: September 1888

48Vincent’s House in Arles (The Yellow House), Arles: September 1888

49Starry Night over the Rhône, Arles: September 1888

50The Green Vineyard, Arles: September 1888

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