In February , Vincent moved to Arles to begin his dream of starting an artist colony, painting in the south of France in a more direct light. He loved the landscape, the light, and the people.
The first step was finding a house and setting up a studio. He found that in a small yellow house on No. Part two of the plan was getting another painter to stay with him and paint. The previous year, in , Paul Gauguin moved to Paris where he met Vincent. Vincent's brother Theo, an art dealer was representing Gauguin and introduced the two. Vincent respected Gauguin and thought him the perfect painter to join him in Arles. With some convincing from Theo, Gauguin agreed and arrived on October 23rd, meeting Vincent at the door of the yellow house early in the morning.
The painters got along well for weeks. They ate together, they drank together, and they painted together. In the small house they were together almost all of the time. Van Gogh and Gauguin both had an interest in Impressionism and painted the same subjects. They painted side by side, showing how two painters can show the same scene in different ways.
Arles was proving to be a productive place to paint for both artists, but Gauguin was moving away from Impressionism. Van Gogh, on the other hand, was producing some of his finest paintings — ones that would later be shown in the biggest museums in the world. Before reaching this diagnosis, the team reviewed handwritten letters sent by the Dutch artist to his relatives, notably his brother Theo.
Not to say that this method of analysis is without its limitations, because interviewing and studying the actual person is always the ideal situation.
Culture Art. The master painter is famous for it and the debate on how it was lost rages on right into modern times. Zoe Ibrahim. Historians and art scholars will always dig into the life and times of artist Van Gogh's life and times. Van Gogh struggled with his own mind and fueled his sorrow with alcohol. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, , in the Netherlands. He had a difficult, nervous personality and worked unsuccessfully at an art gallery and then as a preacher among poor miners in Belgium.
In , he decided to become an artist. His work from this period—the most famous of which is The Potato Eaters —is dark and somber and reflective of the experiences he had among peasants and impoverished miners. In , Van Gogh moved to Paris where his younger brother Theo, with whom he was close, lived.
Theo, an art dealer, supported his brother financially and introduced him to a number of artists, including Paul Gauguin, Camille Pisarro and Georges Seurat. In Arles, Van Gogh painted vivid scenes from the countryside as well as still-lifes, including his famous sunflower series. Gauguin came to stay with him in Arles and the two men worked together for almost two months. However, tensions developed and on December 23, in a fit of dementia, Van Gogh threatened his friend with a knife before turning it on himself and mutilating his ear lobe.
Afterward, he allegedly wrapped up the ear and gave it to a prostitute at a nearby brothel. Following that incident, Van Gogh was hospitalized in Arles and then checked himself into a mental institution in Saint-Remy for a year. During his stay in Saint-Remy, he fluctuated between periods of madness and intense creativity, in which he produced some of his best and most well-known works, including Starry Night and Irises.
In May , Van Gogh moved to Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he continued to be plagued by despair and loneliness. On July 27, , he shot himself and died two days later at age
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