Van Gogh

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Nobody has ever painted cornfields or sunflowers like V.G. His paintings are full of colour and sunlight. Today his paintings are worth millions of pounds but in his life time he only sold one.
He was born in Holland in 1853. He didn’t start painting until he was 27.
Before becoming a painter he was a teacher, an art dealer and a church preacher. In 1886 he left Holland and joined his younger brother Theo, who was working in Paris. After living there for two years, he moved to the warmer climate of Arles in the south of France. Here he painted some of his most famous pictures. However V.G. was mentally ill. During one of his fits of madness, he attacked his friend P. Gauguin. In another fit of madness, he cut off part of his own ear. Eventually he went into a mental hospital but he didn’t get any better. Finally, on Sunday 27th July 1890, in the small village of Auvers, he took a gun, went into a cornfield and shot himself. When Theo arrived he said: “I hope I did it properly”. 36 hours later he died in his brother’s arms.His last words were “la tristesse durera”.

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