Vincent van Gogh
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So many books have been written about the tormented artist,Vincent van Gogh , so there is no way I can add anything to his story. My focus in this blog is about an event that took place this day, July 27th, 1890. On 27 July 1890, aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest…
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Vincent Willem van Gogh ( 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two…
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Pardon the pun in the title but I couldn’t resist. On December 23 1888, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cut off the lower part of his left ear with a razor while staying in Arles, France.He later documented the event in a painting titled Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. Van Gogh and…
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