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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. However, he was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
5 interesting facts about Van Gogh
1.Van Gogh painted Montmartre
In the summer of 1886, Van Gogh arrived in Paris and settled with his dear brother Theo near the district of Montmartre. He was to stay there for two years, during which he had the opportunity to be influenced by other Impressionists such as Camille Pissaro and Toulouse-Lautrec. The quarter of Montmarte as been beautifully depicted by Van Gogh with Boulevard Clichy or Le Moulin de la Galette for example.
2.Van Gogh suffered from mental illness
Genius does not come without its hardships. Van Gogh suffered all his life from temporal lobe epilepsy, hysteria crises and hallucinations. More than one hundred and fifty psychiatrists have tried to diagnose the cause of Vincent Van Gogh’s illnesses and the diagnoses range from schizophrenia, porphyria, syphilis, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy.
3. “The sadness will last forever” were his last words
In 1890, Vincent van Gogh ended his battle with sanity and shot himself in a wheat field in Auvers, France, when he was only 37 years old. However, he did not die until two days later. His brother Theo reported the fact that his last words were
La tristesse durera toujourswhich means
The sadness will last foreverA sentence that reflects the deeply tortured mind of the artist.
4. Van Gogh lived in poverty
Vincent was a self-taught artist with little training and he, unfortunately, only became famous after his death. When he first began painting, he used peasants as models and later would paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.
During his entire life, Van Gogh only sold one painting: The Red Vineyard, while he created a total of two thousand pieces of art, including nine hundred paintings and 1100 sketches or drawings. Now, any of his paintings are sold for millions: The Portrait of Doctor Gachet, for example, has been sold for $146 millions.
5. Van Gogh chopped a piece of his own ear
Van Gogh was indeed an eccentric character. He was close friends with Paul Gauguin, another famous artist. During an epileptic seizure, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in the Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – not the whole ear.
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