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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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Publish dateJan 17, 2012
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1Vincent Vincent
2permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise
3Index
4Forward
5of modern art and the emblem of the artist as an outsider.
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6Mlle Gachet in the Garden at
7Gogh from then on.
8Dr. Paul Gachet’s Garden
9Holland, England and Belgium 1853-1886
10his close relation to nature:
11Nuenen, September 1884.
12Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
13with the arrival of four more children.
14Nuenen, March-April 1885.
15Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
16Goupil’s in London:
17van Gogh immediately after his return to Paris.
18Nuenen, 1885.
19Congregation Leaving the Reformed
20Nuenen, February 1884.
21(Opposite)
22Nuenen, 1885.
23Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
24passions to good use:
25Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
26his employer rather than his patron.
27(Opposite)
28the relationship.
29(Opposite)
30Theo to his sister Willemien.
31Paris, autumn 1886.
32Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
33Japonaiserie: Flowering Plum Tree
34Oil on canvas.
35Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore.
36Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Mr. Levens Paris, Aug-Oct. 1886
37Street Scene in Montmartre: Le Moulin
38Paris.
39Fishing in Spring, the Pont de Clichy
40Paris, autumn 1888.
41Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo.
42Paris, summer 1887.
43Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Paris, Summer 1887
44terribly you.
45With a hearty handshake, Vincent
46artist in society:
47Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73 cm.
48Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
49short of funds.
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