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This comment is not quite accurate. He was known by some collectors but did not make any money from his art and generally considered a failure.
by jb1991 4y ago
This comment is not quite accurate. He was known by some collectors but did not make any money from his art and generally considered a failure.
- adastra22 4y agoAlso although he had many friends in the art space, he had trouble getting along with most of them. He wanted to make an artist colony in southern France, but for the most part it just ended up being him and his one friend, and that one friend eventually left. It’s that kind of failure that brought loneliness and his feeling of isolation.
- mkolodny 4y agoThat one friend was Paul Gauguin - a famous painter who Van Gogh looked up to. The two artists lived and painted together in Arles for two months. They had “excessively electric” debates about art that they emerged from exhausted. When Van Gogh could sense that Gauguin was going to leave, they had a heated argument. That night Van Gogh had a psychotic episode and cut off his own ear with a razor blade. Gauguin left right afterwards.
- jb1991 4y agoToo late to edit, but to add: the parent edited the comment after I posted mine.