Vincent van Gogh
1853-1890
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Dutch Post Impressionist Painter
Artistically and
stylistically influenced by the following painters;
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Edgar Degas,
Paul Gauguin,
Claude Monet,
Pierre-August Renoir,
Camille Pissarro,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
and Georges Seurat
Education - briefly at the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Brussels
Mental Health - Vincent van Gogh was also hospitalized for episodes of madness. He also suffered several emotional setbacks usually in connection with a woman he was infatuated with at the time. One such episode lead him to cut off his own ear.
Physical Health- Vincent van Gogh suffered from various venereal diseases contracted from erotic dalliances with Parisian trollops/models.
Cause of Death - Suicide, he shot himself in the chest with a pistol.
Long after Vincent van Gogh death, in the 1930s, the Nazis vilified his art-works as “Entartete Kunst” and removed all of his paintings on exhibit in public museums.
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Vincent van Gogh Quotes
I wish they would only
take me as I am.
Vincent Van Gogh
Love many things, for
therein lies the true
strength, and whosoever
loves much performs much,
and can accomplish much, and
what is done in love is done
well. -- Vincent van Gogh
I dream my painting, and
then I paint my dream. --
Vincent van Gogh
I often think that the night
is more alive and more
richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh
As for me, I am rather often troubled by angels whispering in my head, or perhaps they are tiny demons that crawled through my ear whilst I was at gentle slumber.
If boyhood and youth are but
vanity, must it not be our
ambition to become men? --
Vincent Van Gogh
If one is master of one
thing and understands one
thing well, one has at the
same time, insight into and
understanding of many
things. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Quote
I am always doing what I
cannot do yet, in order to
learn how to do it. --
Vincent Van Gogh Quote
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