Van Gogh travels more in spirit
I leave Charing Cross Bridge and the Baroness' collection for the collection of the Thyssen Museum once again. I keep on seeing Impressionists: Degas, Pissarro, Sisley, Morisot. But it ends and we get to post-impressionism and with it, Vincent Van Gogh. Dutch from Zundert, where he was born in 1853. His life turns around and around his little brother Theo, with whom he constantly writes. He was first a missionary in a mining area of Belgium, where he would paint the inhabitants, but it is in 1885 that he gets to be known thanks to his painting "The Potato Eaters."
He did not travel a lot, only in spirit. Travels leading him to extremes: one day he even cut his own ear and another one to shot himself, in which he killed himself in Auvers-sur-Oise, when he was still young, 37 years old. It was in 1890. Despite this, he was a very prolific painter: he left around 900 paintings and 1.600 drawings.
Whoever knows me also knows I love Van Gogh and I was told I had to see "Les Vessenots en Auvers". It is one of the works he painted during the last two months of his life. Theo has decided to send him to Auvers-sur-Oise, close to Paris, where the Doctor Gachet lives, so that he could take care of him. In the painting one can see the houses of the doctor's neighborhood. Thanks to the brushstrokes and the yellow, green and blue colors, one can see he was longing for freedom and melancholy, frustration at the same time. In the end, death.
