1In the autumn of 869, as the family became poorer and poorer, 16-year-old Van Gogh was introduced by his uncle to a small clerk in the art business. He was honest, reliable, intelligent and diligent, and was soon promoted and sent to London. In London, he fell in love with the landlord's daughter ursula at first sight. Van Gogh, ugly, walks with his back bent like a little old man. He thinks Ursula is a peerless beauty and is fascinated by it. Ursula answered his pursuit with indifference and wry smile. Van Gogh, whose first love was shattered, went to Paris with sadness.
Van Gogh, who was inseparable, kept reading the Bible, Dickens and Zola in his depression to dispel his troubles. After working for 6 years, 1876, the boss dismissed Van Gogh because of his nervousness. He returned to London and taught French in a slum school. Van Gogh still went to ursula, only to find that she was married. In desperation, Van Gogh refused to teach and accepted the invitation to do charity work in the slums. He witnessed the tragic situation of the poor in Dickens' works, which made him want to express his feelings through painting for the first time. The Theo brothers advised him to study painting, but he decided to become a priest like his father. /kloc-in the summer of 0/878, he preached in a mining area in southern Belgium, comforting the elderly and teaching the children of miners to read. At that time, the epidemic was prevalent. Regardless of his personal safety, he guarded the workers day and night, distributed food, clothing and utensils to the poor, and slept on straw bags. When the local mine exploded. He also risked his life to save a seriously injured miner. His too serious spirit of sacrifice angered the church.1In July, 879, Van Gogh was dismissed from his teaching post.
1880, his younger brother Theo, who worked in an art shop, helped 27-year-old Van Gogh learn painting, but the money was only enough for Van Gogh to live. Without extra money to buy clothes and painting materials, Van Gogh often had to eat chestnuts to satisfy his hunger.
188 1 year, Van Gogh expressed his affection for his cousin who had just lost his spouse, but he was rejected. At this time, he changed his view on religion and once quarreled with his father: "I know your bourgeois religion." You are all hypocrites. I broke up with your religion forever. I am pursuing the gospel of art! " He left home for The Hague to learn painting from his cousin Mao Wei, but he was dissatisfied with Mao Wei's classical method of making him keep painting plaster statues. One day, he smashed the plaster statue and left. He wrote to his younger brother Theo: "What I want to paint is human nature! Humanity! Humanity! "
One day, he met an unfortunate pregnant woman in the street and took her home to be a model. He has been painting her and promised to marry her as soon as he has money. That woman is an alcoholic, ugly and hopeless prostitute. Van Gogh took care of her enthusiastically and saved money for her. He put a cradle in the studio and bathed the newborn baby like his own child, but the woman stole his money to drink for fun. If his younger brother Theo hadn't stepped forward to help him out, he might have been ruined by that shameless woman. He wrote to her: "Goodbye, although I don't believe you will turn over a new leaf, at least you should be honest." . Even if you are just an unfortunate prostitute, as long as you have children, you are a real mother. "
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Margot was the only woman in Van Gogh's life who loved Vincent. Unfortunately, this love failed because of family pressure. Margot swallowed the poison, and Vincent invited a doctor to treat her. Margot finally recovered. However, the dream of marrying Vincent one day finally failed to come true. Later, in brabant Province, Van Gogh was finally shot by the arrow of love for the first time. Margot Begemann, who was older than Van Gogh, took a fancy to his kindness. They lived happily for a few days and finally broke up because of her parents' interference.
From 65438 to 0885, Van Gogh entered the long-awaited Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, but the highest academy of fine arts let him down. Once when he painted a statue of Venus, he drew a pair of fat legs for the goddess like a Dutch housewife. The teacher was very angry and took his brush away. He shouted at the teacher, "You don't know what a woman looks like. Women must have thighs, hips and pelvis to have children! " "Van Gogh was kicked out of the college gate. At this time, 33-year-old Van Gogh was suffering from typhoid fever, and he decided to go to Paris to seek the shelter of his younger brother. He met many impressionist painters in Paris, including Gauguin who brought him a series of misfortunes.
Van Gogh was tired of the noise and bizarre life in Paris, and he longed to return to the quiet nature. With the help of his younger brother, he came to Acheng in the south of France, stayed in an inn and painted crazily, sometimes drawing more than a dozen a day. Van Gogh was often very excited when he painted. Besides brushes, he also uses his fingers and knives. Sometimes he just squeezes colors onto the canvas. Living at the bottom of society for a long time, he expressed deep sympathy for the poor and the unfortunate: "I am willing to express the excitement of an ordinary person with my works." The ideal of "artists' commune" was presented to him, and he invited Gauguin to live in Ayr. 1888 10, the talented and cynical Gauguin came. ?
Gauguin is arrogant. From the beginning, he constantly mocked and teased Van Gogh, often making fun of his frustration in love, and at the same time jealous of Van Gogh's art and his loyalty to art. The simple and honest Van Gogh always tolerated his friends. On one occasion, Gauguin bribed a prostitute in advance, insulted and mocked Van Gogh in public, humiliated Van Gogh, flew into a rage and left angrily with Gauguin. Christmas is coming, Gauguin bribed another prostitute to play a trick on him. The woman said to Van Gogh, "If you give me five francs, I will treat you well, otherwise you will give me a Christmas present with your big ears." Half drunk, Van Gogh grabbed a sharp razor, cut off his right ear, wrapped it in canvas and sent it to a brothel. Later, he painted many self-portraits, among which the self-portrait with his ears cut off is the most famous.
1889 In May, his younger brother Theo sent Van Gogh to an insane asylum, and later transferred him to a better nursing home. In the field near the hospital, Van Gogh painted 150 oil paintings and hundreds of sketches. At this time, his painting style suddenly changed, and he was particularly fascinated by the golden wheat fields under the scorching sun and painted these landscapes all day. He shouted: "golden yellow! What a beautiful golden yellow! " 1890 he asked to leave the hospital to sketch, but his old illness recurred halfway.
One afternoon, sitting under a tree in an inn, he saw his father's parish and flower bed in a trance, Ursula and the miners, Gauguin and the "girls" and heard their laughter. Knowing that he was crazy, he kept shouting, "This is impossible! Absolutely impossible! " In the quiet field, facing the bright sunshine, he shot himself in the stomach with a pistol, then calmly packed up his painting tools and walked back to the hotel as usual. He stayed up for two days and the pain was unbearable, but he didn't shout. Before his death, he had been smoking and talking about art with his brother Theo. 1890 died on June 29th, aged 37, with a lighted pipe in his mouth. His best friend and doctor Xie Jia planted his favorite sunflower beside his grave. Theo, who has always loved his brother, can't stand this heavy blow. Six months later, he died of madness in his hometown and was buried next to his brother's grave, where he will rest forever.