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Sonflowers on the floor

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"We spend our entire lives unconsciously exercising the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words."
-Van Gogh

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Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful, dramatic, rhythmic, imaginative and emotional. The artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain his struggle against his madness or in understanding the spiritual essence of man and nature.

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During his brief career he sold only one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years by a technique that grew more and more passionate in the brushwork, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line.

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In May 1890, he felt much better and went to live in Auvers-su-Oise under the watchful eye of Doctor Gachet. He died two months later when he shot himself "for the good of everything."

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Van Gogh's life began to alternate between attacks of madness and lucidity. Van Gogh was sent to the asylum at Saint-Rémy for treatment.

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At the end of 1888, after an incident, Gauguin had to leave Arles. Van Gogh chased him with a blade and was stopped by Gauguin, but part of his own ear was cut off.

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He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped to open an art school with his friends. Gauguin made the trip to Arles but the result was a disaster.

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His nervous temperament made him a difficult partner and arguments that lasted all night, combined with painting all day, affected his health.

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In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Theo, the director of the Goupil Gallery. In Paris, Van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to shed more light on his very dark palette and paint in the short brush strokes of the Impressionists.

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He stayed in Belgium to study art, dedicated to giving happiness by creating beauty. The works of this early period in Holland are dark-toned, highly illuminated genre paintings of which the most famous is The Potato Eaters (1885).

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Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the main symbol of expression, was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert in the Netherlands.

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(1853 - 1890)