Vangogh The rapid evolution of a style characterized by canvases filled with swirling, bright colors depicting people and nature is the essence of Vincent Van Gogh"s extremely prolific but tragically short career. Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Holland, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor and eldest of six children. His favorite brother Theo was four years younger. When Vincent was twelve to sixteen years old, he went to a boarding school. That next year he was sent to The Hague to work for an uncle who was an art dealer, but van Gogh was...
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In one of his letters to Theo he wrote the following: I do not intend to spare myself, nor to avoid emotions or difficulties - I don"t care much whether I live a longer or shorter time...The world concerns me insofar as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings and pictures - not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling. I feel that he succeeded.