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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Theodoor van Gogh Although Theodoor van Gogh was not an artist himself, he was the great-nephew of one of the most renowned painters in history—Vincent van Gogh. Theodoor, known as Theo, was born in Amsterdam and was the uncle of filmmaker, columnist, and public intellectual Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004. In 1941,…
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