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he nineteenth century was home to many great artists. One of the most predominate artists was Vincent Van Gogh, born on March 30, 1853 in Holland. Van Gogh was an unsuccessful postimpressionist painter during his short, turbulent, tragic life. It is not until after his death that Van Goghˇ¦s work was truly realized for its unique quality and appreciated. Today he is extolled as an artistic genius.
During his life, Van Gogh produced about seven hundred fifty paintings and one thousand six hundred drawings; however, he only had sold one. A vast majority of his work was produced in twenty-nine months of his life with frantic activity and seizures with profound depression, which ended in his suicide in July 29, 1890. Van Gogh lived a chaotic life that was marked by episodes of distress, hostility, abnormal behavior, and filled with disappointment in every pursuit he attempted.
Van Gogh displayed a moody, restless nature in his early life. At age twenty-seven Van Gogh had......
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