VAN GOGH PAINTED A PAINTING ALMOST EVERY DAY
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Not long ago we explained that the Vincent van Gogh Experience in Barcelona was over. But we have received the good news that it has been extended until July 14. So if you have not had the opportunity to buy your online tikets for the Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience exhibition, you know you still have time. Where to do it? Well the best place to do it is on the Proactiv portal, the best online ticket site and the best place to buy your van Gogh Barcelona tickets.
So, taking advantage of the good news, we will tell you some curiosities and anecdotes of the great painter. Information that you may not discover in the incredible Vincent van Gogh Experience:
VINCENT VAN GOGH PLACED LIGHTED CANDLES ON HIS HAT SO HE COULD PAINT AT NIGHT
Between the legend and reality, it is not clear if this statement is true. Although it seems that the great painter had a preference for painting at night. In fact, it seems that Van Gogh would have looked for cafes to paint at night, wearing his straw hat lit by candles.
In a letter to his friend the artist Anthon Van Rappard, he wrote a fable in which a candle represents a woman and a butterfly represents a man.
ALTHOUGH IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN CLAIMED THAT VAN GOGH COMMITTED SUICIDE, HE COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED
The biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, published in 2011 the book “Van Gogh, life”, where they claim that he would not have committed suicide, but would have been killed by a teenager from the city.
Likewise, Vanity Fair magazine published an article with the opinion of a forensic scientist who views with skepticism the possibility that he might shoot himself. All due to the inability of the artist to hold the weapon so close to his body and the absence of burns on his hands.
Naifeh and Smith claim that the weapon was never found, the easel that Van Gogh was using for his painting never recovered and the walk he claimed had made from an irrigation field to an inn where he was staying was too long for someone with a wound mortal (almost 1.6 kilometers).
IT IS QUESTIONABLE THAT HE CUT HIMSELF EAR
Well, to begin with, his ear was not completely cut off. It was only a part of the lobe of the left ear.
At that time, Van Gogh lived with his friend, the French artist Paul Gauguin, an expert fencer. The two often had violent fights, and the night that the lobe of Van Gogh’s ear was cut was no exception. Although the two claimed that it was Van Gogh who cut part of his ear, this could be a story to cover the shame of the Dutch genius.
AS A CHILD HE WAS WALKING NEAR A TOMBSTONE WITH HIS NAME
That was because before Van Gogh was born, he had a brother with the same name who died as a baby and who was buried in the church of which his father, Theo, was the pastor.
A very macabre and disturbing situation.
VAN GOGH PAINTED A PAINTING ALMOST EVERY DAY
Vincent van Gogh started painting between 27 and 28 years old. His work consists of almost 900 paintings, made in less than ten years, before his death at age 37. That means he made an average of two frames per week.
If we add that he also made over one thousand one hundred works on paper, he was really an extremely prolific artist.
Well, we hope you enjoyed these little anecdotes of the life of the great Dutch artist. But if you really want to immerse yourself in their life and work, do not hesitate to visit the Meet Vincent van Gogh Experience.