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    Van Gogh
    Van Gogh
    Van Gogh
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    Van Gogh

    By Jp. A. Calosse

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    Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh’s illness. The author of the article saw the painter as “a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological.” Very little is known about Vincent’s childhood. At the age of eleven he had to leave “the human nest”, as he called it himself, for various boarding schools. The first portrait shows us van Gogh as an earnest nineteen year old. At that time he had already been at work for three years in The Hague and, later, in London in the gallery Goupil & Co. In 1874 his love for Ursula Loyer ended in disaster and a year later he was transferred to Paris, against his will. After a particularly heated argument during Christmas holidays in 1881, his father, a pastor, ordered Vincent to leave. With this final break, he abandoned his family name and signed his canvases simply “Vincent”. He left for Paris and never returned to Holland. In Paris he came to know Paul Gauguin, whose paintings he greatly admired. The self-portrait was the main subject of Vincent’s work from 1886c88. In February 1888 Vincent left Paris for Arles and tried to persuade Gauguin to join him. The months of waiting for Gauguin were the most productive time in van Gogh’s life. He wanted to show his friend as many pictures as possible and decorate the Yellow House. But Gauguin did not share his views on art and finally returned to Paris. On 7 January, 1889, fourteen days after his famous self-mutilation, Vincent left the hospital where he was convalescing. Although he hoped to recover from and to forget his madness, but he actually came back twice more in the same year. During his last stay in hospital, Vincent painted landscapes in which he recreated the world of his childhood. It is said that Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the side in a field but decided to return to the inn and went to bed. The landlord informed Dr Gachet and his brother Theo, who described the last moments of his life which ended on 29 July, 1890: “I wanted to die. While I was sitting next to him promising that we would try to heal him. [...], he answered, ‘La tristesse durera toujours (The sadness will last forever).’”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParkstone International
    Release dateDec 22, 2011
    ISBN9781781605950
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      Van Gogh - Jp. A. Calosse

      Author: Jp. A. Calosse

      Layout: Baseline Co. Ltd.

      61-63A Vo Van Tan Street

      4th Floor

      District 3, Ho Chi Minh City,

      Vietnam.

      © Confidential Concepts, worldwide, USA

      © Parkstone Press International, New York, USA

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      No part of this publication may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

      ISBN: 978-1-78160-595-0

      Jp. A. Calosse

      Vincent

      Van Gogh

      TABLE OF CONTENS

      As through a looking glass, by dark reason…

      Feeling nowhere so much myself a stranger as in my family and country… " Holland, England and Belgium, 1853-1886

      The spreading of the ideas. Paris, 1886-1888

      An artist’s house. Arles, 1888-1889

      I was a fool and everything I did was wrong. Arles, 1889

      What is the good of getting better? Saint-Rémy, 1889-1890

      But there’s nothing sad in this death… Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      NOTES

      1. Self-Portrait (dedicated to Paul Gauguin), Arles, September 1888.

      Oil on canvas, 62 x 52 cm.

      Cambridge, Massachussetts,

      Fogg Art Museum, Havard University.

      2. Vincent’s Chair with his Pipe,

      Arles, December 1888.

      Oil on canvas, 93 x 73.5 cm.

      London, The National Gallery.

      As through a looking glass, by dark reason…

      Vincent Van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to see his pictures without reading in them the story of his life: a life which has been described so many times that it is by now the stuff of legend. Van Gogh is the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider.

      It became apparent early on that the events of Van Gogh’s life would play a major role in the reception of his works. The first article about the painter was published in January, 1890 in the Mercure de France. The author of the article, Albert Aurier, was in contact with a friend of Van Gogh’s named Emile Bernard, from whom he learned the details of Van Gogh’s illness. At the time, Van Gogh was living in a mental hospital in Saint-Rémy, near Arles. The year before, he had cut off a piece of his right ear.

      Without explicitly revealing these facts from the artist’s life, Aurier nevertheless introduced his knowledge of the apparent insanity of the painter into his discussion of the paintings themselves. Thus, for example, he uses terms like obsessive passion[1] and persistent preoccupation. [2] Van Gogh seems to him a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always at the brink of the pathological. [3] Aurier regards the painter as a Messiah [...] who would regenerate the decrepitude of our art and perhaps of our imbecile and industrialist society.

      [4]

      With this characterization of the artist as a mad genius, the critic lay the foundation for the Van Gogh myth which began to emerge shortly after the death of the painter. After all, Aurier didn’t believe that Van Gogh would ever be understood by the general public.

      A few days after Van Gogh’s funeral in Auvers-sur-Oise, Dr.

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