Biography of Vincent Van Gogh What drove Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30,1853, to his mental illness and suicide? Could it have been the many things he tried, but failed at in his life? He failed in many different careers, in love, and even his artwork. Van Gogh sold only one painting his entire life. Because of his mental illness, he was considered a crazy person. At the age of sixteen, Van Gogh went to go work with his Uncle Vincent, whom he was named after, as an art dealer at the Goupil and Co. This job had branches not only in Europe, but America also. Vincent was assigned the branch in London. There he got his first rejection in love. He fell in love with the daughter of his landlady. Van Gogh thought her feelings would be mutual, …show more content…
He could not stay in any job he tried, such as a an art dealer, a teacher, or doing missionary work. He felt he had no other way to go in life. He turned to the most helpless form of employment, being an artist. Theo supported hi decision and influenced him. Their relationship became close and they began a frequent correspondence. At the end of the winter and during the beginning of the spring, Vincent was going to face yet another rejection from a woman. He went to visit his parents and met his cousin, Kay. She was a widow with a four-year-old child. Kay was several years older than Van Gogh was. Van Gogh, who thought he was in love with her, declared hi feelings for Kay. It only turned he off and she never wanted to hear from or see him again. She left and went back home the next morning. Kay's leaving only made Van Gogh want her even more. He went to Kay's parent's house to find her. They refused to let him talk to Kay. This made Van Gogh feel even more abandoned and alone. The rest of Vincent's family turned against him after that, also. Theo was the only one who still cared for him. Once again, Vincent fell in love. This time he was not rejected. His new love was a prostitute with a child and pregnant with another. Christina, also known as Sein, was ill and smoked cigars. Van Gogh, thirty-years-old at the time, proposed to marry her. At first they were happy with each other. They had nothing in common except a background of misery. Arguments began
In 1880 at the age of 27, Van Gogh moved to Brussels began taking lessons on his own. He took some lessons from his cousin by marriage. He studied some books like Travaux des champs by Jean-Francois Millet and Cours de dessin by Charles Bargue. After completing his
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous painters of all time. His style was post-impressionism. He was a Dutch man, born in an averaged sized town called Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. The reason he became an artist, and the thing that influenced him the most to become an artist was actually his mother. His mother was interested in nature, she did a lot of drawing and watercolors and that really influenced her son heavily and got him into art. When he was fifteen years old, his family was really struggling with their finances. Because of this, he was forced to get a job and help them provide. It ended up that his uncle owned an art dealership, so he got a job there.
Vincent was a quiet child growing up. He himself once described his childhood by saying “My youth was gloomy and cold and sterile”. At the age of 7 he attended the town 's school and at age 8 he and his sister Anna were taught by a governess in their home. At the age of 9 he attempts to draw his first drawing called The Goat Herd it is in a private collection. Then at age 11 he began schooling in Zevenbergen and studied French, English, and German. At the age of fifteen he had to quit school to help support his family, he worked at his Uncle Cornelis’ art dealership in Paris called the Hague. At the age of 20 he was transferred from the Paris branch to the London branch of Goupil & Cie, art dealers. This is thought to be one of the happiest years of his life. He was very successful and then he fell in love. However, when he confessed his love, the girl rejected him saying
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On March 30th, 1853, “Fou-Roux” was born. The nickname “Fou-Roux” was given to Vincent van Gogh because he donned fiery red locks coupled with a series of mental illnesses and sexually transmitted diseases that earned him the nickname “Fou-Roux,” or Crazy Red. The Dutch born artist was born with his mother’s traditional peasant features and his father’s desire to enter the church. Van gogh longed to be apart of the church, but held back because he felt lowly and ugly and didn’t believe that a man like himself was worthy to approach God. Van gogh came from a family where there were art dealers. Theo van Gogh, Vincent’s younger brother, sought after a career in the family business of art dealing. van Gogh sought after several different careers
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch painter born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work was a high influence in 20th century art. He was the son of his father Theodorus van Gogh, an austere country minister, and his mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus, whose artistic passion was inherited to van Gogh. His parents had a stillborn whose name was also Vincent van Gogh. He had a brother named Theo van Gogh who accompanied him in adulthood. His works consisted of local landscapes. It is believed that had a mental illness that would later take his life in an attempted suicide.
When you think of Vincent Van Gogh, you may just think of “that dude that cut off his ear”, but he is much more than that. Van Gogh was a multidimensional person despite of his mental illnesses. Through his art, Van Gogh helped raise awareness of mental health. The status of Van Gogh’s mental health was shown through various pieces of art that he made throughout his life. Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Brabant, Holland to a Protestant family.
The life span of 37 years saw Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent) in creating beautiful works he dearly loved. Painting was an avenue, which allowed him to express his inner thoughts or vent his struggles. My decision to research on Vincent’s painting, Starry Night (1889) came with the inspiration from Don Mclean’s Song, Starry Starry Night where his lyrics spoke about Vincent’s life that further intrigued me in writing this paper.
After living in London and Paris for Goupil & Co., Vincent’s employment came to an end in the first month of 1876. He then followed his father’s footsteps and worked as an evangelist for six months, before the Committee decided he was not fit for the work. Vincent was unsuccessful at several more jobs, and letters between the family members further revel their unease. His mother showed great concern for him in her letter to Theo,
Van Gogh and Monet had both lived exceptionally different lives. Van Gogh did not start off wanting to become an artist, he was actually very interested in theology and had eventually become a minister. It had seemed as though Van Gogh had found his calling. Unfortunately, he was released from the church after his generosity had betrayed him. While trying to help miners, he gave away all of his clothes and was only left with a cloth. The church committee overseeing Van Gogh let him go because he did not dress or preach eloquently. This led to Van Gogh gaining an interest in art which would lead him to go to an art school in Paris to
When Van Gogh was sixteen, his first job was working for his uncle at Goupil et Cie, an art gallery in The Hague. When he was nineteen he went to work at the Groupil Gallery in London and then to the gallery in Paris. He was finally fired from the gallery because he was not happy with his job and discoursed customers from buying the artwork. After that he decided that he wanted to be a preacher and studied to get into a theological school but failed. In 1879 he went to Borinage, a coal mining town, as a missionary to the poor coal miners. He lasted there a couple of years and then was dismissed.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last
4. Later Van Gogh decide to moved to his next and final career which was An Artist.
Both these artworks were constructed around the same times, 1889 in the 19th century. This was a time in Van Gogh’s life of great misplacement and the downhill run to his suicide in 1890 at 37. A series of events led to his downfall including such events as: chasing Gauguin with a knife, resulting in the fallout of their relationship; cutting his left ear off as a consequence for his misbehaviour and handing it to a prostitute as a ‘gift’ in 1888; finally shooting himself in the chest. Dying two days later in 1890. These series of events subsequently relate to Van Gogh’s paintings, as he painted with full attentive emotion within his artworks using colour as a vehicle to convey his subjective emotions.
Vincent Van Gogh had a rather depressing life. After being born into an upper-middle class family he quickly became depressed in life. He tried different things like working as an art dealer, becoming a Protestant missionary, and so on. None of these stuck for him as his mental health continued to decline. He was already a quiet, keep to himself kind of person, but over time he became more isolated. He got help from his younger brother Theo in the form of money and moved back home with his parents. This is when he began painting and eventually moved to Paris. Once moving there his paintings became more colorful and his painting style began to develop. He also began suffering from delusions and psychotic episodes and began neglecting his health by eating less and drinking alcohol more frequently and in