Ever Yours: The Essential Letters By Vincent Van Gogh

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Imagine the year 1853. It is March 30th, ten days into spring and a child has just been born. This child is quiet and thoughtful; he does not seem to be anything more than a regular boy. The thing that the eye cannot see, about him, is the way he looks at the world. This boy will live a life in which he will never truly be understood in the way he deserves, and in the end he will end up taking his own life. But that is a price of genius: to be denied in happiness while in the pursuit of perfection. This boy’s name is Vincent Van Gogh, about whom it could be said, he is the greatest artist to ever have lived. Van Gogh’s art has been sold for more money than any artist to have ever lived. The monetary value of art is not the most important factor. Art should be really valued by what it portrays. Art is a window to the soul; it shows the passion that a person holds close to their heart. …show more content…
Van Gogh in his once letter now book “Ever Yours: The Essential Letters” is quoted as saying "I exaggerate, I sometimes make changes to the subject, but still I don’t invent the whole of the painting; on the contrary, I find it ready-made—but to be untangled— in the real world.” Van Gogh was in part inspired by an artist named Claude Monet. This artist gave a very interesting view of the world, at one point in his life his eyesight began to fail. Monet would paint the same thing over and over, and with his declining eyesight it can be see what affect blindness was having on him. Seeing one of his works in person is a very strange experience. In his art exhibits the paintings will be set in the order that they were painted. In the paintings the image is still visible but it is like darkness is encroaching in on the borders. The sharpness and the colors seem to fade away in the same why they faded from

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