Van Gogh, one of the most famous representatives of post-Impressionism of the 19th century. However, his short life is far less than his colorful and distinctive personality, and the great painter Van Gogh only spent 37 spring and autumn seasons, and he personally ended his crazy and lonely life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >, a tortuous and bumpy childhood</h1>
Van Gogh was born into a polish family of priests, his grandfather had six sons, three of whom were uncles in the art business, van Gogh's father also had six children, two younger brothers Theo and Kol, and three sisters, Elizabeth, Anna and Vermina.
Van Gogh also had an older brother, but he died prematurely as soon as he was born, but the day van Gogh was born was the day of his brother's death. Van Gogh's mother saw this as an ominous sign, so she named Van Gogh after her dead brother's name, Vincent Willem van Gogh. Van Gogh's birth seemed to hint at his lonely and miserable life
Because of this, Van Gogh's mother was extremely indifferent to him from an early age and never gave the warmth of little Van Gogh's mother's love, which also caused Van Gogh to be lonely and not good at interpersonal communication from childhood, and also laid the groundwork for Van Gogh's future mental collapse and serious mental illness.
Van Gogh was still full of bumps in the road to study in the future, and at the age of 6, he was sent by his family to attend the Kindelt Public School, although this school is a public school, but the school environment is chaotic, the teaching quality is low, the school atmosphere is not correct, and the student's academic performance is not paid attention to. A year later, Van Gogh became more and more withdrawn, so he had to drop out of school and go home, and study with his sister Anna at home under the guidance of a tutor, but the relationship between Little Van Gogh and his sister Anna was intolerable.
A few years later, at the age of 11, van Gogh Jr. was sent by his mother to attend a private Jenpfivelli boarding school in Zevenbergen, the Netherlands, 20 miles from home. The study was also difficult because it was so far from home that little Van Gogh had to stay in the home of a middle-aged couple. Young Van Gogh never experienced the company and care of his family, and could only carry the weight alone.
As a result, Van Gogh dropped out of school again. From 1869 to 1876, he traveled extensively in The Hague, London, and Paris. Growing up in an environment where his parents ignored and lacked love, Van Gogh was not good at communication and had a moody personality, and was eventually fired by Goupil & Cie.
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In Van Gogh's short 37 years of life, he had a total of 2 relationships. In 1881, Van Gogh returned to his hometown after many years of travel and met his divorced cousin Kay Voss Stryker again.
Van Gogh often invited cousin Kay and her children to wild dinners to draw. After a period of time together, Van Gogh fell deeply in love with this cousin with excellent temperament, Van Gogh could not suppress his love for his cousin Kai, and when he talked again, he suddenly confessed to Kai, and Kai immediately rejected Van Gogh's love and left the van Gogh town to return to Amtersteda.
Unwilling to give up true love, Van Gogh chased after Amterstein to express his love for Kai. But this kind of love that violates secular ethics is ultimately unacceptable to the world, and Van Gogh's relatives, after knowing Van Gogh's unusual liking for his cousin Kai, the whole family set off an uproar, which was an embarrassing event that humiliated the whole family and could not raise its head in the upper class.
After being courted and blamed by his family, Van Gogh's first relationship failed. When van Gogh returned home, he had a heated argument with his father, threatening to leave the Netherlands and never step into the house again. Van Gogh severed his father-son relationship with his father and went to The Hague alone.
In 1884, Van Gogh was preoccupied with painting in Nuenen, when his neighbor's sister Bergmann, who was ten years older than him, broke into Van Gogh's boring life. Bergman fell in love with this man, and during the years of Van Gogh's deep creation, Bergman took care of Van Gogh's life and warmed Van Gogh's cold life with his passionate love. In these little details, Van Gogh also fell in love with this woman, although ten years older than him, and they intended to enter the palace of marriage hand in hand.
However, the relationship still did not get the blessing of the family, the parents of both sides strongly opposed the union of the two, Bergman threatened the family's recognition by suicide, but in the end did not succeed. During a heated argument with his father, Van Gogh's father suffered a heart attack and died of ineffective treatment.
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The sudden death of his father, the low point of his career, and the abrupt end of love. Van Gogh's spiritual world was devastated, and doctors diagnosed him with mental illness as well as depression.
Later, Van Gogh concentrated on creation and indulged in the world of painting. At the beginning of 1886, with the help of his younger brother Theo, Van Gogh came to Paris, known as the "temple of art", where Van Gogh met more art painters and saw "Impressionist" painting for the first time.
Van Gogh, who first met the Impressionists, was struck by the bright colors and distinctive style, and gradually became brighter from the previous realistic gray pictures. Van Gogh's painting style gradually began to change, combining painting techniques such as impressionist pointillism techniques to create a large number of self-portraits with a strong personal style.
Two years later, Van Gogh left Paris for arles, a small sunny town in the south of France, where Van Gogh reached the peak of his work and completed more than 2,000 paintings. Van Gogh's most representative works such as "Starry Moon Night" and "Cypress Tree" are from this period.
However, at the same time, the disease also followed, making Van Gogh sometimes awake and sometimes mentally confused, in the waking moment, Van Gogh immersed himself in creation, and when the illness occurred, he could not control himself. In 1888, Van Gogh and his friend Gao had a fierce verbal quarrel, and In anger, Van Gogh turned away, leaving Van Gogh alone in the rental house in Arles.
That night, Van Gogh suffered a seizure of mental illness, and was once again unable to control his behavior, swinging a knife and cutting off his ears. What really happened that day we can no longer identify the root causes of it, van Gogh's mental illness has reached a very serious level, it is an indisputable fact.
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In 1889 Van Gogh still went to the fields in the afternoon, just like he had always been, and everything looked no different from usual, but he left his 37 years of short life on this afternoon. At just 37 years old, Van Gogh ended his ill-fated life.
A pistol and a bullet ended the life of a talented painter. For Van Gogh, it was also a kind of liberation, free from the bondage of the world for him.
Van Gogh's younger brother Theo has always been Van Gogh's most loyal supporter, supporting his brother Van Gogh to concentrate on creation from the aspects of connections and money, which is a guiding star in Van Gogh's life.
Half a year after Van Gogh's death, Theo also died of mental breakdown and depression, buried next to the grave of his brother Van Gogh, believing that with his brother on the road to heaven, Van Gogh would also walk warmer. After Van Gogh's death, his works were sought after by the world, and now every painting of his is a treasure left to the world.