Van Gogh Research Paper

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I can relay this theory with Van Gogh by saying that Art and religion were the two occupations to which the Van Gogh family floated. His family originated from a long legacy of art dealer and his father was a pre teacher in the Dutch Reformed Church (Meyer S. , 1951). In this manner it was nothing unexpected that Van Gogh began functioning as a junior clerk for the art film firm of Goupil in 1869 when he was 17 years of age. After that Van Gogh chose to wind up a pre teacher like his father (Wallace, 1969). He was right around 23 years of age when he exited the Goupil company organization (Wallace, 1969). Throughout this stage of Van Gogh's life, I can see him developing mentally, turning into a pre teacher and apparently doing great in the

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