Van Gogh's Accomplishments

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Van Gogh's chaotic life has significant impact on his art style and paintings. During his life, he dedicated to become a successful artist but remained poor and unknown. His artworks could not be accepted by the public because people were not ready for such advance art style. The misfortune and the feeling of being unappreciated were the reasons for his depression. Van Gogh traveled from one place to another in order to find his belonging where his artworks can be understood. Until 1888, He finally persuaded artist Paul Gauguin to join him to start an art colony that he named the "Yellow House" in Arles. He and Gauguin "began to experiment with compositional techniques derived from Japanese art as well as the symbolic language of color, emphasizing

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