Question

WHAT ARE 50 FACTS ABOUT VINCENT VAN GOGH?

Answer 1

uh that's a lot .... I'll give you as many as I can, though ....
1. Vincent had an older brother who died at birth. His name was also Vincent van Gogh.
2. Van Gogh was close friends with Paul Gauguin, another famous artist.
3. Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy as well as other mental and physical conditions.
4. Vincent shot himself in a wheatfield in Auvers, France but did not die until 2 days later at the age of 37.
5. Vincent’s brother Theo died six months after Vincent and is buried next to him in Auvers, France.
6. Vincent’s brother’s wife collected Vincent’s paintings and letters after his death and dedicated herself to getting his work the recognition it deserved.
7. In a short period of ten years Van Gogh made approximately 900 paintings.
8. Vincent only sold one painting during his lifetime and only became famous after his death.
9. Vincent van Gogh did not cut off his ear. He only cut off a small portion of his ear lobe.
10. Van Gogh created his most famous work The Starry Night while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France.
11. Vincent’s earliest career aspiration was to be a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church like his father.
12. Van Gogh wrote over 800 letters in his lifetime. The majority of them written to his brother and closest friend Theo.
13. On March 30, 1853, Anna Cornelia Carbentus gave birth to Vincent van Gogh in Groot-Zundert, Holland.
14. Vincent’s father was Reverend Theodorus van Gogh.
15. He was named after his grandfather and stillborn brother who died a year earlier than Van Gogh’s birth.
16. “Van Gogh” is pronounced differently in English and Dutch. In the United States his name has a silent “gh” — /van-goh/ which is the most common pronunciation. However, in Holland, the “v” in “van” is silent.
17. He had several siblings – a brother named Theodorus nicknamed Theo, another named Cor, and three sisters whose names were Elisabeth, Anna and Willemina.
As a child, Vincent was serious, silent and thoughtful.
Vincent van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, hallucinations and mental illness.
18. Van Gogh was close friends with Paul Gauguin, another famous artist.
Vincent van Gogh’s earliest career aspiration was to be a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church like his father. He was a missionary temporarily, but eventually gave in to pressure from his parents and gave up on the idea.
19. Astonishingly, Vincent wrote over 800 letters in his lifetime with the majority of them written to his brother and closest friend, Theo.
20. When Van Gogh first began painting, he used peasants as models and later would paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay the models.
21. Van Gogh never found romantic love in his life after a couple failed relationships.
It is simply amazing that Vincent created a total of 2000 pieces of art which included 900 paintings and 1100 sketches/pencil drawings.
22. Vincent van Gogh was a self-taught artist with little training.
23. Van Gogh was financially supported most of his life by his brother, Theo.
24. Vincent van Gogh never had much formal training in art, however, he attended an art school for a few months in Antwerp, in 1885, which was four years before his death.
25. In a short period of ten years, Van Gogh created approximately 900 paintings. Think about it – in just ten years, he created 900 paintings that are now known to be some of the greatest works of art ever created.
26. Van Gogh is considered to be a Dutch Post-Impressionist.
27. Van Gogh only became famous after his death.
28. During an epileptic seizure, Van Gogh attempted to attack his friend Paul Gauguin with an open razor. This ultimately resulted in the Vincent cutting off a piece of his own ear – not the whole ear.
29. At the age of twenty-eight, in a letter to Theo, he wrote: “I came away from him with some painted studies and a few watercolours. They are not masterpieces, of course, yet I really believe that there is some soundness and truth in them, more at any rate than what I’ve done up to now. And so I reckon that I am now at the beginning of the beginning of doing something serious. And because I can now call on a couple of technical resources, that is to say, paint and brush, everything seems fresh again, as it were.” Van Gogh would be shocked to know how people marvel at his work every day all over the world. Yes, Vincent, we know you did something serious.
30. Van Gogh painted 37 self-portraits.
In 1890, Vincent van Gogh ended his battle with sanity and shot himself in a wheat field in Auvers, France, when he was only 37 years old, but did not die until two days later.
His brother Theo died six months after Vincent and is buried next to him in Auvers, France.
32. Theo, at his side when he died, said that Vincent’s last words were “La tristesse durera toujours” which means “the sadness will last forever.”
33. More than one hundred and fifty psychiatrists have tried to diagnose the cause of Vincent van Gogh’s illnesses and the diagnoses range from schizophrenia, porphyria, syphilis, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy.
34. His brother’s wife collected Vincent’s paintings and letters after his death and dedicated herself to ensuring that his work received the recognition it deserved.
35. Van Gogh’s work began to shoot to fame eleven years after his death due to the diligence of his brother’s wife.
36. Vincent van Gogh’s most famous work and my favorite is Starry Night, c.1889 and was created while staying in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France
37. He had an older brother who died at birth,
39. he suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy,
40. and he shot himself in a Wheatfield in Auvers, France but did not die until at the age of 37.

There. That's 40 of them. I'm sure you can find 10 more on your own, Hope this helps. :D

Answer 2

He was very dutch and he liked Japanese woodblock art