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Vincent Van Gogh was born in Zunert, Brabant, a province in South Holland in 1853. He had been as unsuccessful painting merchant and missionary. Most of his short lifetime, his profession was a “loafer”. Only his cousin Tio understood and supported him, and provided him life and creation expense. By this Van Gogh had a living as a “parasite” till he suicide. Van Gogh had a really hard life. He always had to struggle with hunger. The women he loved all refused him. He gave up all his joy to help those poor miners when he preaching in a mining area，what he got was the reassignment from church. After he found that his really occupation should be a painter, he started keeping art creation. But the painting that he drew with whole heart couldn’t receive acceptance from people, he couldn’t fulfill his wish that making a living on painting. Because of his strange behavior, he was regarded as a mad man.
He was one of the outstanding artists in the end of the 19 century, and was the reprehensive of the Western art “the post- impressionism”. Van Gogh’s works have grand magnificent, their jumping line, the bulge color blocks, published individuality; all these were expressing painter’s intense subjective feeling, and gave a great impact on the later generations. However, the life of Van Gogh suffered repeated setbacks and hardships, and as a result of schizophrenia he suicide when he was as young as 37 years old. In 1934, Owen Stone who were 26-year-old was shock by Van Gogh’s paintings, then he followed the traces of Van Gogh’s live by visiting nearly the whole Europe. He got a lot of first-hand true information about Van Gogh from those people who still alive and knew Van Gogh, and he also read the valuable letters that Van Gogh wrote to his cousin for reference. After four drafts, Owen firstly introduced this unknown painter to the world.
The works faithfully showed Van Gogh’s extraordinary talent, frustrated life and his unique artistic and spiritual feelings. Even now he had left the world; today his works were still fine among the same style works and had strong readability and study value.

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