Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890)

Van Gogh is today one of the most popular of the Post-Impressionist painters, although he was not widely appreciated during his lifetime. Nobody has ever painted corn-fields or sunflowers like Van Gogh. His paintings are full of colour and sunlight. Today his painting are worth millions of pounds but in his lifetime he sold only one.

Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He did not start painting until he was twenty-seven, ten years before he died. Before becoming a painter, he was a teacher, an art dealer and a church preacher.

In 1886 he left Holland and joined his yanger brother, Theo, who was working in Paris at that time. After living there for two years, he moved to the warmer climate of Arles in the south of France. Here he painted some of his most famous pictures.

However, Van Gogh was mentally ill. During one of his fits of madness he attacked his friend, the artist Paul Gauguin. In another fit of madness, Van Gogh cut off part of his own ear. Eventually he went into a mental hospital but he did not get any better.

Finnaly, on Sunday 27^th July 1890, in the small village of Auvers, north of Paris, Vincent Van Gogh took a gun, wnt into the a corn-field and shot himself. When his brother Theo arrived, he said ‘I hope I did it properly.’ Thirty-six hours later Van Gogh died in his brother’s arms. His last words were ‘La tristesse durera.’ (The sadness will continue.)

Words:

· corn-field ['kɔ:nfi:ld] – поле, нива

· sunflower ['sʌnflaʋə] – подсолнух

· preacher ['pri:tʃə] – проповедник

· mentally ['mentəlɪ] - умственно

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