The world of art fascinates each one of us in one of the other way. There are quite well noted personas who have attained the name and also fame in the world of art.
One such very well known art is painting. Painting is such a fascinating art that is believed to be one of the right methods to convey our views, feelings, etc...
When it comes to paintings we can never for the great painter "Vincent van Gogh". This well-known painter got his popularity established in the world of art however it was pretty late by then. However, during his existence, people never ever knew the worth of his paintings. Folks never ever valued his art during his life. But, once he left this world, people started realizing the worth of his amazing paintings. After his demise people started realizing the quality of his art. Peple then realized his feelings and emotions that he wanted to convey to the world. His ideas, thoughts, concerns, answers all reflected so magnificently in his paintings that if a person desires to say something however is falling short of words he could just get a painting to communicate it completely with suitable understanding.
Vincent was born in a Teodorus family residing in a very small village of Groot-Zundert on 30-March-1853 . His wife's name was Anna who was formerly from Karbentus. Van Gogh was mentally disabled. All this happened mainly because of the birth of a still child. Due to this incident, Van Gogh was deeply touched which affected severely on his mental health.
Vincent's early days was a really happy going kind since he was born and brought up in a family who was progressive-minded. He had 5 siblings. Vincent was the eldest amongst them. Out of 5 siblings, four committed suicide. Vincent loved to paint pictures. This art fascinated him and thus he decided to make this art his work when was at sixteen years of his age. Initially he used to sell the paintings of other painters.
He started working in a European firm named Goupil who was a quite well-known French art supplier. He was attracted towards Eugenie Loyer. However she refused him since she was already engaged. This fact left him in great shock and further affected his mental health. This lead in the first act of melancholy that later turned into a despair. He started performing badly in his work which resulted in low competence. Then he went to Amsterdam for studying theology however wasn't able to pass the exam. Then he joined a missionary school which was located in Brussels. Finishing his studies he went to Borinage, Belgium. There he stayed in barracks and slept on straw like the other poor miners of that region. There Vincent started to paint and countless people inspired him to do so. The art work of Jean-Fran inspired him deeply. His one of the best works is "potato-eater" that reflects a theme of god-fearing, hard working people.
However, Vincent had to face a lot of problems in life which was really tragic. However then his art of painting made him lively with full of colors and also life through his wonderful and also message conveying paintings.
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