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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch painter

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch painter, one of the main exponents of Post-Impressionism On his childhood, Vincent van Gogh commented: "My youth was sad, cold and sterile." On the afternoon of December 23, 1888, Van Gogh and Gauguin had an altercation that gave rise to one of the explanations that have been given about the loss of the former's left ear. Gauguin in his memoirs points out that Van Gogh threatened and chased him with a barber knife and that at night the Dutchman self-used

• He painted about 900 paintings magnificently and made more than 1600 drawings.
• Van Gogh began working in 1869, at the age of 16, as an apprentice at Goupil & Co.

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1. He adapted quite well to this new life, writing: It is a wonderfully business. "The longer you work on it, the more ambitious you become."
2. He was excited about reading the Bible, and The Imitation of Christ by Thomas of Kempis.
3. "When I was in the pulpit, I felt like someone coming out of a dark underground cave into full light again, and wonderfully thinking that, from now on, I will preach the Gospel throughout the world." He said that phrase to his brother

At this time his painting is characterized by the presence of eddies, as can be seen in one of his best-known paintings, The Starry Night. Van Gogh's last years were marked by his permanent psychiatric problems, which led him to be voluntarily confined to mental sanatoriums The painting was investigated by scientists at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

" I am fully absorbed by these immense plains of wheat fields on a background of hills, vast as the sea, a very tender yellow, a very pale green, a very sweet mauve, with a part of tilled land, all together with plantations. of potatoes in flower; all under a blue sky with shades of white, pink and violet. I feel very calm, almost too calm, I feel capable of painting all this. "

Vincent van Gogh