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An obsession with sunflowers, a mutilated ear, and a melancholic temperament.
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An obsession with sunflowers, a mutilated ear, and a melancholic temperament.
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These are just a few characteristics of a truly great artist, Vincent van Gogh.
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Van Gogh.
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Van Gogh.
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Anyway.
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He spent years in relative obscurity,
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putting his depression on the canvas,
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only to become one of the most celebrated artists of all time.
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But can these innocuous details really summarize such an iconic figure in the art world?
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In this week's story,
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we will explore the life of Vincent Van Gogh in the hopes of discovering the man behind the art.
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We will also discover a few important questions about his life and works.
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Was Van Gogh truly as sad as historians make him out to be?
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Why did he cut off his own ear?
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What was Vincent Van Gogh's relationship with his brother, Theo?
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And how did it impact his art?
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Finally, why did his art become so popular after his death?
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Let's explore all of this together!
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The son of a Protestant minister,
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Vincent van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1853.
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Robert did not become a painter immediately,
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but for a short time he was a preacher in the coal mining region of Boronage in Belgium.
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Here he began to meet his first love,
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humanity, and all the humble people he met at the sermons.
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This was an important step for his subsequent career as a painter,
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which began shortly afterwards.
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One of his most famous works,
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The Potato Eaters, painted in 1885,
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once he was back in his native Netherlands,
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bears witness to his concerns for the most humble subjects.
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It represents the harsh life of the countryside.
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The emphasis on the hands of the protagonists expresses their hard work,
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simple life, and dignity.
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In 1886, while he was 33,
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Vincent firmly decided to pursue his career as an artist and he moved to Paris.
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In France, he met some of the most prominent Impressionist painters of the time,
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which profoundly impacted his art.
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At this point in his career,
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his colors became brighter, but his feelings were not equally bright.
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When Vincent van Gogh arrived in Paris, he had a dream.
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A colony of inspired artists who worked together to find a way to best represent humanity in all its power.
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Unfortunately, the times of Millet,
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Courbet and all the French realities were over.
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Vincent van Gogh felt terribly lost in this new cultural world.
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He realized that the utopian community of artists he searched for did not exist anymore,
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and his style, focused on human nature, was not yet appreciated.
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Through art, Van Gogh hoped to express himself with all his fragilities and strengths,
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using contrasting colors and expressionist deformations.
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However, the public at the time was not all that interested.
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In search of even brighter colors,
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Van Gogh moved to the south of France in 1888.
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In Arles, still dreaming of a colony of artists living freely in the countryside,
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he invited Paul Gauguin to join him in the iconic Yellow House.
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Gauguin's temperament led to a troubled friendship,
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which was also reflected in the paintings of both artists.
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If we compare the painting of Gauguin's chair with Van Gogh's own paintings,
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we can come to understand their divergent ideas about art and life.
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Van Gogh's modesty is symbolized by a pipe, tobacco, and onions.
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Alternatively, Gauguin's work reflected that of a more elitist artist,
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particularly with the inclusion of candles and literature.
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In any case, one thing is for sure,
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both artists were misunderstood, brilliant,
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and incapable of understanding one another.
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In Arles, Van Gogh also began to experience periodic psychotic episodes.
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After one particularly After the terribly bad episode,
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Frightened Gauguin fled the Yellow House, never to return.
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Feeling abandoned, Vincent cut off his ear
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and brought it to a prostitute in a bag as a request for help and love.
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His loneliness is well represented in the famous Bedroom & Aro painting.
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The room expresses a sense of relaxation,
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but simultaneously, through the nervous lines, a sort of instability.
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This metaphor of solitude could be seen as a form of an unconventional self-portrait.
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Due to his mental distress,
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Van Gogh was hospitalized later in life.
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While in the clinic, inspired by feverish productivity,
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he painted some of the greatest masterpieces of his career.
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Despite this success, Van Gogh was unable to sell any of them.
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Starry Night, with its swirling,
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disturbing clouds, is probably the artwork that best expresses Van Gogh's hallucinatory visions and artistic genius.
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It exhibits the power of his imagination,
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but also the disorienting effects of his mental state.
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In August of 1890, concerned with the worsening of his mental condition and his quickly depleting finances,
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Van Gogh committed suicide in the middle of a wheat field.
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Wheatfield with Crows represents the peak of his inner agitation,
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a somber sense of death and a small road leading to the unknown.
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Evaluating this painting today, we can understand how Vincent van Gogh was not alienated from reality.
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He felt the power of nature,
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but the intensity of his sensations had become intolerable.
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Soon after, his beloved brother Theo died as well.
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The posthumous success of the artist is curiously due to Theo's widow,
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Jo Van Gogh Boonger.
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She dedicated the rest of her life to selling Vincent's artworks,
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organizing exhibitions, and publishing his letters to Theo.
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The complex temperament of Van Gogh,
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which cannot be reduced to just a psychological illness, shines through his art.
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One can see this clearly in his iconic painting, Sunflowers.
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The painting is not a dark or morbid still life.
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Instead, it symbolizes his periodic joy and vitality.
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Van Gogh wanted to introduce colors,
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freshness, and brightness into his paintings,
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possibly in the hopes of bringing those feelings into his own life too.
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Sadly, that would never come to fruition.
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In 1890, Van Gogh was buried with a bouquet of sunflowers.
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As Gauguin said, these yellow flowers were completely Vincent.
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So, what do you think about Van Gogh's multifaceted personality?
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Was he a mad genius or simply a great artist who was years ahead of his time?
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Which artworks best represent this duality?
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- obsession - 집착
- melancholic temperament - 우울한 기질
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- utopian community - 유토피아적 공동체
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- impact - 영향을 주다
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