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Im going ti inmerse you in Van GoghLife

Today is one of the most famous and important painters of de XIXth century .
He was pioneer in the modern art, he was a posimpresionism painter , he
explored with color abstraction. At that time painters only copy the real wordl but
Van Gogh starts to paint new wordls in his canvas.

with the dificult life influenced by mental illness, at that time scintist dont haved
knowledge about schizophrenia. Baut lets start.

Vincent Willem Vangogh is born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, a village
in Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. Four years later, in 1857,
Vincent's favorite brother, Theodorus (Theo), is born. Vincent begins his
education at the village school in 1861, and subsequently attends two
boarding schools. He excels in languages, studying French, English, and
German. In March 1868, in the middle of the academic year, he abruptly
leaves school and returns to Zundert. He does not resume his formal
education.

In July 1869, Vincent starts an apprenticeship at Goupil & Cie, international art
dealers with headquarters in Paris. He works in the Hague at a branch gallery
established by his uncle Vincent. From the Hague, in August 1872, Vincent
begins writing regular letters to Theo. Their correspondence continues for
almost 18 years.

Vincent moves to the London Goupil branch in June 1873. Daily contact with
works of art kindles his appreciation of paintings and drawings. In the city's
museums and galleries, he admires the realistic paintings of peasant life by
Jean-Franois Millet and Jules Breton. Gradually Vincent loses interest in his
work and turns to the Bible. He is transferred in 1874 to Goupil's Paris branch,
where he remains for three months before returning to London. Vincent's
performance at Goupil's continues to deteriorate. In May 1875 he is sent again
to Paris.

In late March 1876 Vincent is dismissed from Goupil's. Driven by a growing
desire to help his fellow man, he decides to become a clergyman.

When he gives up his preparatory studies, Vincent briefly enters a missionary
school in Brussels and in December 1878 leaves for the Borinage, a coal-
mining district in southern Belgium, to work as a lay preacher. Vincent lives like
a pauper among the miners, sleeping on the floor and giving away his
belongings. His extreme commitment draws disfavor from the church and he is
dismissed, although he continues to evangelize.


He was intelligent, able to speak multiple languages, but he did not think that
Latin was a language for preaching to the poor.
. As his development as a preacher was stalling, his interest in those around
him was increasing. His life as an artist was beginning.
In 1880, at 27 years old, Van Gogh entered the Acadmie Royale des Beaux-
Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The following winter, living in Amsterdam, Vincent fell
in love, had his heart broken, and began painting. The next few years would
result in little success both in love and art.
Van Goghs Potato Eaters, his first major work, was painted in 1885. By this
time, he was still having difficulty finding love, but was beginning to receive
interest in his paintings. He was now fully devoting himself to painting: living
frugally, studying color theory, and admiring the works of artists like Peter Paul
Rubens. Unfortunately, as would be his entire life, his paintings were still difficult
to sell. His brother Theo, an art dealer and the recipient of many letters from
Vincent, commented that there should be more color in his work. Van Gogh was
painting peasants and rural landscapes using dark earth tones. Around this
same time, Impressionism, with its bright vivid colors, was becoming popular.
The next year, Vincent moved to Paris where his art began to take on the style
that would make him famous. In Paris, he was discussing art with some of the
most avant-garde and influential artists of his time painters like Gauguin,
Bernard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. He was using more color, applying the paint
with thick, bold brushstrokes, and painted all that surrounded him. Van Gogh
arranged to show his work, to positive reviews, but was still unable to sell any
pieces.
One of Van Goghs dreams as an artist was to start a colony for artists in Arles
in the south of France. Vincent moved to Arles where he was joined by
Gauguin. While there, Van Gogh entered the most productive and creative
period of his life painting his famous Sunflowers. However, it also was a time of
great turmoil for Vincent beginning a period of hospital stays for mental illness
and physical decline.
After just ten years of painting and producing some 900 paintings, Vincent van
Gogh took his own life in 1890. Never fully appreciated in his own time, it
wouldnt take long for the art world to recognize the genius they lost. Within
twenty years of his death, there were memorial shows of his works all over the
world influencing generations of artists to come.
Van Gogh suffered from some sort of seizures or crises, and in one of these
attacks, December 23, 1888, he cut off a part of his ear.Following that attack,
he was admitted to hospital in Arles, where his condition was diagnosed as
"acute mania with generalised delirium". Dr. Flix Rey, a young intern at the
hospital, also suggested there might be "a kind of epilepsy" involved that he
characterised as mental epilepsy.These attacks became more frequent by
1890, the longest and severest lasting some 9 weeks from February to April
1890. Initial attacks of confusion and unconsciousness were followed by
periods of stupor and incoherence during which he was generally unable to
paint, draw, or even to write letters.
One of the most frequent complaints in Van Gogh's letters is the problems he
endured with his stomach and digestion.[9] Van Gogh suffered from
hallucinations[10] and nightmares at times.[11] He often reported that he was
suffering from fever.[12] At various times he reported bouts of insomnia. He was
unable to sleep for three weeks prior to his diagnosis of gonorrhea in The
Hague (sleeplessness and fever probably due to infectious disease).[13] On
occasions he sunk into a kind of stupor.[14] Van Gogh reported his impotence
to Theo, his brother, in the summer after he arrived in Arles,[15] and a month
later when he wrote to Bernard it seemed to still be very much on his mind.[16]
Van Gogh mentioned suicide several times in his letters towards the end of his
life, nevertheless Naifeh and Smith note that van Gogh was fundamentally
opposed to suicide