Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in Groot-Zundert, which is located in the Netherlands, and died in 1890 at the tender age of 37. This story details his lack of acceptance in society during this period, in addition to how his paintings affected modern-day society, the critics, and the censorship of art. Van Gogh’s father was a Dutch protestant minister. In addition to Vincent, his father had other children: Anna, Willamina, and Theo, who was very close to Vincent. Theo went on to become a very successful art dealer through the acquisition and sale of impressionist paintings.

Eventually, his father saved up enough to send his children to boarding school but it wasn’t right environment for the young children. The children were forced to endure cold showers, lack of proper nutrition, in addition to not being able to form a bond with the other

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People were outraged at his bright colors and his loose strokes. He wanted to follow his passion of painting, and he had a keen eye for color. People had a hard time excepting unhappy surreal things at his time.

Vincent’s lack of acceptance at his time was due to the fact that everybody was still interested in the Classical Era.

Vincent later wrote a man by the name Paul Gauguin and asked him to live with him.

From the early 1880s on, van Gogh was supported by his brother Théo, who was an art dealer in Paris who was financially backing Vincent. Theo had wrote Vincent some letters about this women he was in love with and Vincent had eaten some of his tubes of paint after hearing some of this. Van Gogh contracted syphilis from her and she later left him. These comflicts caused Gauguin to leave but him and Van Gogh still communicated. Van Gogh and Gauguin got in a lot of brutal conflicts, after an argument one night Van Gogh cut off the lower portion of his ear lobe. Gauguin wrote back saying your crazy, shortly after Gauguin left and meet up with him. Today people see him as the turning point of a new era in the art world.

Van Gogh later admitted him self to a insane asylum were he was treated for almost bleeding to death from his ear. Some of Vincent’s works were just in your face real with detail like the sketch of the pregnant women who had saggy breast and she looked a wreck but she was full of detail.

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