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October 29th 2007 00:42
Vincent Van Gogh - Obscurity
Van Gogh Sunflowers - a famous work
Dutch post impressionist Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in 1853 and committed suicide 37 years later, such is the tormented artist. Today he is one of the most recognized painters ever to live but his personal issues began when he was named after a stillborn older brother who died a year before his birth.
Spending some of his adult life in and out of mental institutions, living on meagre wages and ignored, a young Van Gogh learnt to draw in 1866. At the age of fifteen he became an art dealer where he proved an astute at seeing a pieces worth, but did not agree with the commercialising of art and lost his job because of his vocalising of opinions.
Raised in a religious household, his father was a minister and he believed he had found his calling in spreading the word of God. He traveled to England before returning home but he failed at his religious studies.
In this building Van Gogh took art to heart
After throwing himself into missionary work he was finally urged by his brother Theo to attend the Royal Academy of Art, this is where he studied anatomy too. Making the decision to dedicate himself to art, Van Gogh decided to spread the message of the lord through his creative gift.
The female form takes over Van Gogh
Drawing constantly he enjoyed capturing the commonplace occurrences and people he observed. Now 28 years old he moved back to the countryside where he had unrequited obsessive love for his cousin.
van Gogh sketches workers
Struggling financially and seen as an unfit suitor, Vincent fled to The Hague. Attempting to focus on his art he was distracted by his new love for a prostitute named Sien, whom he fathered a son with.
He ended up abandoning her and the son she bore and returning to live with his family. (Sien would later drown herself) Lonely and isolated he had managed to start working with oils while spending a time in hospital for syphilous. This was an important step in his development, though no one realised it at the time.
A Still Life from the period
Next: Part 2 of Vincent Van Gogh
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