I Vincent Van Gogh Research Paper

I Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.“La tristesse durera toujours,” is a French expression which means, “this sadness will last forever.” These were the final words that Vincent van Gogh uttered, but there is more to the story. Van Gogh was a very unloved in his lifetime, shunned, and his work ignored.This is his interesting untold story of his short life. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1852 to pastor Theodorus van Gogh and his wife. The couple lived in Groot-Zundert,in a small Dutch village in the Netherlands. Their first baby boy was born dead, and the couple.named their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, just before
Anna (Who is Anna??) had taught her kids to draw and make watercolors. From the age of nine to eleven years old, Vincent’s drawings were considered good, but only foreshadowed the art which would be produced in the future. The young boy was plagued with melancholy, and deep sorrow, from as early as he could recollect. His long walks frequently took him past the cemetery, where he saw a grave with his name (and the name of his deceased brother) inscribed on it. This caused him to think about his dead sibling, the perfect baby Vincent up in heaven with God. Such gloomy thoughts made him believe that he was doomed to fail. Anna never recovered from the death of her first son, she was to depressed to be able to form a bond with her living son. Vincent carried the pain of his mother's rejection for the rest of his life. CITE 100
2. The father, Theodorus van Gogh, was a country minister, and himself the son of a pastor. His wife, Anna Carbentus, was cantankerous and high strung, she gave birth to five more children, but it was only Theo (who was four years younger than Vincent) who shared a bond with him that not even death could break