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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).'"
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Table of contents
1Van Gogh
2© Parkstone Press International, New York, USA © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA
3Biography
4The Nuenen period 1883-1885:
5The Arles period 1888-1890:
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6Beach at Scheveningen
7Head of a Peasant
8With this characterization of the artist as
9“This sovereign contempt
10In his letters, nearly seven hundred of
11His cousin Kee, already a mother and
12women, but also that of his family and
13from “The excellencies of love” in the first
14In the last months of his life, Van Gogh
15Similar
16A Pair of Shoes
17Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Cafe Tambourin
18Elisabeth Huberta and by Van Gogh himself
19Flowerpot with Chives
20with the arrival of four more children.
21three years in The Hague, at the gallery of
22During his apprenticeship, Van Gogh
23Japonaiserie: Oiran (after Keisai Eisen)
24“land of pictures.”
25Japonaiserie: Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige)
26letters in 18 years to his brother, who
27Still Life with Decanter and Lemons on a Plate
28Embankment, on my way home from
29L’amour by Jules Michelet: “To me the book
30the same time [...] And that man and wife
31But his love for Ursula Loyer, the daughter
321888 Oil on canvas, 73.5 x 92.5 cm St Petersburg, Hermitage
33public gallery. And the solitary and eccentric
34Arles: 1888 Oil on canvas, 51 x 71 cm Private Collection
35member of the family with whom Van Gogh
36Self-Portrait in front of Easel
37his visits to the Louvre, and in particular, of
38An Old Woman from Arles
39Langlois Bridge at Arles
40Three White Cottages in Saintes-Maries
41and in his attitudes about religion or art. The
42The mercantile affairs of an art dealer or
43Haystacks in Provence
44The Zouave (half-length)
45Jansenist church.
46whether a Protestant pastor or a Roman
47After his failure as a businessman, Van
48Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin
49English and French.
50The Pit, the Mills at Montmartre
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