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to prepare for set to fight against terrorists not conduct operations against crowds but critics like amnesty international say the e.u. and foreign partners must take responsibility and stop supporting mother's government if human rights violations like son's death continue. this is from by lynn there's more on our website for. a meal and i'm good goalkeeper the 2nd season of on the fence. the planet on the brink of disaster we did long depth interview with experts about one question. at least change the template for.
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this little $100.00 pounds because you are looking at there is no amount of time i love. i love many pang to. search. all morning. but as a. whole. so i want to visit his place i want to see where he lives and. they search for him in the fields of france. and at exhibitions worldwide vincent has a huge digital image. some flowers for himself and i. say it is something that every artist registered home ownership seriously. like. vincent van gough lives own especially in people's minds because his life has
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become the stuff of legend but who was he really and how did his legend grow to become an international phenomenon. oh there saw was a village northwest of paris bangle who came here in may 8090 and over 70 days created dozens of oil paintings on july 27 aged just 37 he shot himself and died of his wounds 2 days later. dominique shall yun sins presides over the institute vanguard in over there a village which artists and morning a also visited. tourism and i come here every week to clean up
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a bit of the dried leaves and so forth. and i find that visitors have left messages and gaps. asian people bring oranges and lemons. here's a statuette of a person holding a guitar. to every day people bring flowers. jewish people play stones on the grave. and here you can see ashes. cremated remains of artists who wanted to be laid to rest near find god it keep it on video we got all. of this is the all bears have a small hotel where van gogh lived and worked in all their small was in 1905 dominic charlie and since a belgian entrepreneur bought it and founded the institute van gogh to preserve the artist's memory. he leased out the bar where van gogh once sat it's now
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a restaurant. vango his attic room is where he died in july 8090. and you do get to go i have 2 different types of visitors. there are the fun god junkies who know everything about him and his paintings he's like a hero to them. that's about 10 to 15 percent of him. another 10 to 15 percent have read his letters of song and then the rest only know the hollywood 5 god so they're not the man who cut off one of his ears associated with prostitutes drank a lot and killed himself oh no it was he to me let it go it was you see. this is the so painted in 888 lang is often portrayed as
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a typical artist misunderstood impoverished struggling with himself over a period of 10 years he created nearly 900 paintings and more than 1000 drawings a huge achievement he also wrote an estimated 900 letters in some of them he spoke about the meaning of life. possessed enormous creative energy but was he driven by his so-called madness by his genius. on the next question on the longer you've heard the saying you can't see the forest for the trees of all the wall is all one worker for so many myths and misunderstandings have grown up around found. that you can hardly see the historical reality that's another story. val to vend a veiny scientific advisor at the vanguard institute and an internationally recognized
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expert on the life and work of the artist vandeven wrote his doctoral thesis on bangle literary role models and has spent years studying his correspondence. he also transcribed the artist's letters for the van gogh museum in amsterdam vandeven says that a selective reading of this correspondence obscures the artist's image including for example his pragmatism. frank was an odd dealer before he became an artist. vincent and his brother theo worked for some of the top dealers of their time theo provided vincent with financial support throughout his life early on vincent set high goals for himself he often wore fine clothes he spoke several languages and
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read books favored by the dutch educated elite. the brothers' intellectual environment was shaped by those books their lives were very very middle class and. the books at their own were beautifully made with gilt edges and leather covers. and so they were not for and undereducated as is so often claimed all. on the contrary they were very cultured and sophisticated people who could really be. in many of his letters vincent talked about money but not because he was poor hard work and financial success were part of his religious beliefs. or the load of group of us from. he was always talking about making money. and you have to remember that he was a dutch calvinist someone who grew up in that tradition in which social function plays a major role. really you don't see here so that was his motivation artists
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have to be properly compensated for their work. he paid a lot of attention to the business side of things. they speak it's hard to get people to understand that because it is usually for trade as an unselfish hero who sacrificed himself for his art it was on view. created paintings because he believed that they had economic value. like an art dealer. only on the back then it was not a case of art for art's sake if you came over when i speak on this topic at conferences also a lot of people reject this view with you because you're all it's like they have this image of a selfless. o'toole do you do it out of a small move also on the. margin
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book who did you just saw it is i believe that vincent entail found god created a company incorporated a funk often funk corporations so to speak emerging on it that. i know of no other company that was founded in 880 s. and is still so successful today that's what he did also it's very profitable and a lot of people share and those profits are all of. the 1st years of the corporation went badly and during their lifetime vincent and theo didn't make a lot of money from it but today the bank golf business is booming. this is the village of labeled a pulse in the south of france. a bangle for multimedia display is located in an old line stone quarry.
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the artist's life as expressed in his paintings. the images are choreographed to a special soundtrack. relieve the left all his mistakes behind and that makes. infinitely charming. and despite those mistakes and his personal problems he's now enormously successful one of the world's most famous painters normal. was absolutely fearless and saw his rigidity and vulnerability as qualities i feel so many people find that appealing ok those are very attractive human characteristics. everyone seems to have their own personal vincent but one was van gogh who really like. it's time to check the facts to do that we've come to the shtetl museum in frankfurt
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a mine whose fuss and yet. i find his paintings and drawings absolutely fascinating but i'm less interested in the myths that have grown up around a gun salute and they don't tell me how. you can't evaluate his work properly if you focus too much on his personal life as if i kept on with simoleons leftwards on doc i think i've retained and increased my fascination for the original business in the fuss in that so when i got a dog in oslo. news in india in a cutoff of this work shows a woman who is planting potatoes but we don't see her face the focus is on her bulky limbs her hands and her clogs it's like a big shapeless form of the and also how you can see that it was difficult for them to draw the human figure. you learn to draw from textbooks. and i think it's worth
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noting that he had no proper academic training in art at themselves sized one of the non looked down if you will the figure may seem modern to us today but at the time and goss contemporaries complained that he got the proportions all wrong the imma be done it and one of the nuns in the u.s. when i was in contrast isn't compare that work from $885.00 to this one to 895 you can see that his style is already changing and not as of a friend he's a movie from i honestly hasn't figures to portraits cost 1000000 joy doing portraits of modern people down and mention that was a deliberate move by vango he was reacting to changes in the art market. in this portrait he includes themes of self perception like something you might see these days on instagram. then got him to pics dr gushee in a typical melancholic pose like do are used for his famous engraving. but he's not
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referencing do a lot of work they're quite admired for trick by the gender inequality that shows for quite a tussle in a sane asylum than hostile act as are in a melancholic with an atmosphere of genius and madness in the background and one title. the shtetl was the 1st public museum in germany to buy works by vanguard. in 190818 years after the artist's death it acquired from house e. newman and in 911 the portrait of dr ghosh a the museum still has the frame of the gosh a portrait but not the painting itself it was seized by the nazis in 1937 and later sold in 1990 someone from japan paid $82000000.00 for the painting it's not known who owns it now. aleksandar eileen takes a sober approach to his study of rank office work and he succeeds in getting closer
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to him through drawings and prints. the bancroft museum in amsterdam which contains the world's largest collection of the artist's paintings and drawings some $2000000.00 people visit the museum every year and each of them brings with them their own personal concept of the man and his work out of the museum's experts see him. i. i. i think the more we know about the horse about his about his life about his work the more you realize that are that are still so many things that you don't know and
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there's new questions coming up so in the case of the sunflowers. there was an extensive research project. which really focused very much on his materials and his take next sort of painting was really. looked at in depth with all these different techniques in the conservation studio. we've often found on the drawings we even have found under drawing on painting when he is using the perspective frame to lay out his composition or to help him lay out his composition to get the perspective right and this is a device that he has sketched in a letter for hawk was was very methodical in his way of working and that's also confirmed by all the research that we've done into his stick nicks and his materials he was really planning his picture. yes and he's drawing and he was often calculating even the amount of pain to study would need to you know to
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paint a specific amount of canvases. did then god take the same calculating approach to professional success he was certainly a master of self promotion. you might say that he tried to market himself as a brand with sunflowers as a company logo. this really choosing that subject as something deadly can make his own and then later on he really says i've chosen the sunflowers and i've really been the 1st one to take the sunflower as a as it is a subject it's of course not he's of course not the 1st one but it but he's now his paintings are the most famous women in art history. and it's simply not true that vang god did not sell a single painting during his lifetime. he was
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born and raised in the brabant region in the netherlands. bangle painted this picture of the church in newton in 1984 his father was minister here and as a young man vincent worked for a while as a protestant missionary in belgium but in 982 he sold a few drawings in the hague. van gough's early works often portrayed the lives of farmers. this is the potato eaters from 1885 his 1st large work in oil. vincent rode to theo that this painting shows people who worked with their hands and earned their food honestly he noted that this life was quite different from
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then is that of the educated middle class. the 1st time god was fascinated by far more. but he knew that society always changes with you its arms started to disappear it's not it and he knew well that there was more and more industrialization of what is it. an arm what and when he asked people to pose for him and he didn't want to come across as a wealthy artist i didn't want and he said because like these people and wanted to live a life that was similar to that of farmers and laborers and coal miners on that end by one button ah but on that didn't call on one had signed a card on fresh saying tot he often gave away his clothes or went around looking shabby one hot dog and i'm tired but he believed that this gave him credibility and and a sense of self-sacrifice that was inspired by jesus christ steps in of course then
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god had some very wealthy relatives right or vi didn't with financial support might be don't want us to accept his apparent poverty gave them street cred high as we say today hard to street credibility oh my jesus wat. in fact his brother theo enabled him to enjoy a good standard of living he regularly sent him a lot of money every $2.00 weeks perhaps out of love but perhaps because he hopes the investment would pay off after all theo was an art dealer. in 1886 a vincent moved to paris to live with theo the french capital was the center of the european art world. vincent met a number of impressionist at the paint supply shop owned by dealer pair. vango who changed his style again to capture the light of paris
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he placed thin layers of paint on top of each other doll and flat and transparent. and he put dots of complementary colors next to each other instead of mixing them. the view from his brother's apartment theo was never able to sell this piece there was too much competition from the impressionists. are improvised southern france. to get a bank goal spends 15 months here painting his now masterpieces. there are references to him just about everywhere you go in the city.
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is also home to the van gough foundation which is dedicated to honoring the artist's work and exploring the impact that it has on contemporary art. the foundation often displays bangle paintings borrowed from world class collections. we are asked historian beach a kurita why bangles works are still so relevant today van gogh is this dance into sound it was very interesting and important for him to move away from so long art and conventional compositions. he wanted to create art that had an immediate visual impact that name to show for and by doing that he enters a plea to trends that became common in the 20th century and this into they still see those trends today in advertising and on the internet sang straight to the message. that he wanted to create artistic tension and this is paint a branch of
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a tree that crosses the entire painting well the human figures were quite small and socially he used it to dimensional style and that was also he element consisted. at that time van gogh was inspired by japanese wood block prints which were popular among many of his contemporaries he suddenly start a very big collection of 660 prints and we know why did that because the relationship with theo was. becoming more feeble and he was afraid that c.e.o. would kick him out maybe give him less money so he thought that he should have something on the side kind of adil a ship he had in mind and he would make money in the beginning but maybe later on so these were the kind of feelings that he had he began to copy the japanese prints in oil on canvas.
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so if you want to understand those ebony's prince you do not have to focus on much and you can use prince but the magic word is primitivism to a certain extent and been decorative so it had to be flat flat means that there's no space practive in it and well those prints are fret so we learned from them how to do that but of course he had to learn it all by himself the formal design and structure of japanese prints soon found their way into vanguard's work like this painting called arment blossom. it was painted in the south of france. vincent wrote to theo at the time that he felt like he was in japan and my.
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generation art has 1st break away from the western tradition he is deeply influenced by japanese prints and the japanese prints are also associate to restrain spending so that means you look at the subject and the way it painted it's not exactly a subject. but is a separate subject to your mind and your heart so you remember right is it your restructure of tbilisi your mind i mean your heart so that's a big difference from the western tradition. for 10 years from. one ball we can see the similarities. that
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brush paintings is a lot or strokes and the color. don't defy this reality that color in our mind the heart and if you prefer which is very. statics pender it's not. a receiver off of the information. seen from nations into your language. painted was he felt in colors that he felt often in an abstract style he often discussed these concepts with his friend the french artist paul go. who painted van gogh at work. after the 2 parted in disharmony bangle cut off part of his own left ear he was committed to a psychiatric institution where he painted
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a portrait of himself as jesus christ. and works with radiant color like the sunflowers he had painted earlier. and. this is the day he was obsessed with the colors you know what are you up assessment on these and carried on and at that moment he was supposed to have moved to all southern france in any case because one of his role models besides me a daughter from one to chile had worked there give you feeling the time he almost always painted sunrises and sunsets. and one to tell you had guns i didn't and still and it might be chilly developed
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a unique style that involved a technique called impossible hostiles and if the application of paint in fig layers or strokes are businessman it gives the work an added depth and structure and you can see how the paint really stands out with streaks and furrows on fast. 819 goals thank god got his 1st positive art review by him and he wrote to the author i would bear to hear more on that he neglected to mention the influence of more to charity because i don't. want to have done you mind for a bit of money charity homes if i guess in soviet. the critics were finally taking notice but a few months later vincent van gogh committed suicide and so the legend was born. in january and $891.00 vincent's brother died of syphilis the entire vango estate including paintings drawings and letters passed to theo's widow she would make
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vincent vanguard an international superstar. your honner vanguard bangar immediately took matters into her own hands based in paris she used the family's connections and contacted art critics and gallery owners. she soon became successful vincent van gough letters were an important part of this process 2 years later you had a published excerpts of these letters in dutch magazines and out catalogs she recognized the potential that lay in the combination of life and work. a paris gallery owner called valar showed some of van gough's works in 895 and there was a full exhibition in 1901 but it didn't attract much attention amongst collectors. that would change in 1905 in amsterdam steadily community in your honner vanguard bangle organized an exhibition of dankosky i'm pleased works and it had
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a huge impact. at the museum in frankfurt alexander i ling and his team have been studying how the angle was so successfully marketed particularly in germany. one can up once not starting in 1000 or 5 on there was a huge increase in the number of vanguard exhibitions in germany wants not from fernand between 1000 or 5 in 1914 before world war one there were dozens of exhibitions of featured his works with tile and we've seen that at about the same time times and more and more german museums and private collectors were buying vanguard daughter pre-bought somnolent most of the inputs from as a dumb act when i did so there was a big increase in germany but not in france in the netherlands except for that big exhibition in amsterdam aluminums adama but museums and collectors there were not
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buying as well as some not often got i'm just playing what he was into my garnish. prices for vanguard were rising accordingly an invoice from a parasite gallery shows that in 1011 the state all museum paid a huge sum for the portrait of dr gushee. the money was paid in installments it cost a total of $20000.00 francs it had changed hands 3 years before and the asking price then was only 2000 francs so that's a huge increase and must leave a want to go home prize. and the legend of van gogh also helped to push prices higher. in german critique and novelist you liest my agree did much to create that legend. michael eavis on a constant by a grey felt was a central figure in making van gough legend of dying on the one hand an art critic
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a collector a dealer on the other hand a novelist a writer who saw the potential invent gough's work. eat bacon but he wrote a history of the development of modern art in 1900 m. with in which a large chapter was dedicated to van gough it was a cup it'll give it much good about if you develop the whole thing into a biography in 1010 months and in 1021 finally into a novel. and on it went to my ok for stylized vanguard as the christ of modern art as he called it a savior because the romantic artist between genius and madness it's which suddenly gained an enormous readership it was to be on bonds and i gave us van gough biography was one of the 1st bestsellers in art literature coffee line a day asking them of a bestseller when split out would. you hand of angola died in 1925 and the queen to her son vincent villain the items that
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she had not yet sold. your vincent villain's grandson villain serves as an advisor to the bangle foundation. so that you were right theo was married to you and i'm going and the young couple. son and this little baby is my grandfather. and grandfather inherited from his parents a collection of 200 paintings by fits and 500 drawings and for instance letters to his brother and here we see in the sixty's in the sixty's we see here the living room of grandfather and i remember the moment blossom hanging in the. living room element blossomed a beautiful one of the most beautiful paintings ever made dedicated by for instance
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to the birth of his little nephew it's not a family or holds the rights that were licenses it's the museum and my grandfather was the owner of this amazing incredible collection but in order to avoid it it would be defied it in c. parts after his death he had 3 children and his dream was to keep the collection together and to share the collection with everybody for always so he brought the entire collection everything ever touched by vincent or theo but out of the hands of the family and transferred it to a specially established for instance from go front ation. so vango sold the paintings to the dutch state in 1962 it built the museum for the collection in 1973. today the experts of the museum and the foundation aim to maintain scientific accuracy and infuse future generations for vincent van gogh
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. the museum has 1700000 followers on instagram and about 2500000 likes on facebook bangkok's works have become part of the digital landscape. but the balancing act between scientific correctness and ever new legends is difficult. so i saw a revolver was opened off in paris in $219130000.00 all for $130000.00 out is it thought. it is the weapon was found in 1960 in a field near over there so it was where van gaal he used to paint the auction house sold it as the weapon with which vanguard he's said to have killed himself. forensic tests indicate that the gun lay in the ground for 70 years and had the
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same caliber as the bullet that was found in vanguard's chest and the safety catch was off. but there is no scientific proof that links the weapon directly to vanguard. the owner of the auction house says he never claimed that there was. a will of the obama that he said with we said before the auction that there was never any proof that it's not like we're just saying this now after the sale so we've always been careful to leave it as a possibility is on sets what makes a reputable auction also we only said that's the gun that he could have killed himself. but before the yorks in the weapon was advertised as vang goss revolver that was misleading to say the least the auction house also touted the fact that the gun had been displayed at one museum
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and requested for exhibition by another. you know. in 2016 that was shown in amsterdam as part of the exhibition on the verge of insanity . museum in frankfurt also wanted to borrow it for an exhibition. there was somebody in a time when we had to actually mission who sent not quite like that and so and so he was asked what do you think of think of this and he said well as long as there's not a 2nd rusty gun coming from the same ground i mean it makes a very well charms if you have to look at it that why i believe and it's when it's small to some so when you buy an adoption makes it very likely but as i said i mean we have to take the word from the of from from from from the landowner $960.00 that indeed he found it on his land and that somewhere else you can't you don't have an idea and a prove of that he ever had a hand and. no. but the fed and all they are good as it is that why they found a gun on fire when all there and it's supposed to be the one that vanguard used to
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kill himself in the current. what did he really pull the trigger is it possible that it's a different weapon on one of them but suddenly this worthless object this rusty revolver became a part of the legend and so we expressed interest in it and that but i don't want us to much interested. where does legend end and where does for all would begin. this book was published in france in 2016 it shows facsimiles of a sketchbook that vango is said to have compiled in and allegedly found by a private individual but experts have serious doubts about its authenticity. but it's going to see more of this drawing can scarcely be considered the work of god if he was an excellent draftsman at that point as a career. he created impressive color and light effects with pens and pencils and.
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this drawing has none of that right. sloppy job as if to show that the artist had no discipline he. was not like that at all. his work was always very neat. and. the book contains a sketch of a sunflower field for instance drawing start is very critter istic and it was quite clear also from the colors i mean it is brownish tins which we know from for instance since drawings have. wolf faded in more or less and this was too evenly colored in so it was didn't look like it was drawn with with a black ink which was discolored to brown but simply browning. dishonest dealings can earn a lot of money selling vango forgeries in 1032
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a burly broker auto vaca was convicted on charges of putting 30 of them on the market given time as it has in some had authenticity reports from renowned bank experts so you can see a lot of people and a lot of money from van gough and. even his commercialization inspires tate britain london the valhalla of british art history he's very much the hero of modern out. and he says showing in a way british artists a new way to be an artist and an artist it doesn't have to be necessary respect all that can paint in their bedroom or their front room and things like that. in 1957 british artist francis bacon portrayed vanguard as a man with his head bowed on a path to nowhere. the paintings that god created during the
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final 2 years of his life have inspired generations his distinctive use of color has become part of the language of modern art. norwegian artist edvard monk painted this portrait of felix auerbach in 1906 he portrays him in a very rough very. i would say expressionistic medder with stark red color not a very defined background steps also something that can go bells of course. putting all his attention and focus on the character of the path and it's interesting that in his letter is not so much about this part of it also other portraits he refers to that go. german artist and slewed big snow was also influenced by van gogh as we see in this painting from 1908 artists turn
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vang dos artistic power into their program of artistic self dramatization max beckmann as vincent. and here in this business from one coffin to who's there we have been gossip portraits and next big moment i think it's a great combination because you can see how similar the self portraits are. with beckman heard about the big exhibition in amsterdam in 1005. and then grew a beard so that it would look like them got here because if you know me from go on so i then. you can send by vinton yes of on cough artisans overcome their advantage all traces relatively quickly because they don't want to be seen as successors convoy or not and so at some point then got receipts further and further into the background on one call him about and then he wanted but his works open minds to color to style to the application of color and some top want em and that helps them find their own
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style and gives them the courage to find their own style and want in more mine i have mentioned it's a fantasy. so is it this courage that transcends the legend is it his weaknesses or his strengths dr gushee a prescribed painting for van gogh as therapy and during his last 70 days you know van school was he painted another 80 pictures in a bid to save himself. and maybe that's why all these people are still searching for the real vincent. because in him they may succeed in finding themselves.
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