Not a Romantic Starry Night: Last few years of Vincent Van Gogh through his paintings
W hen we hear the name Vincent Van Gogh, most of our minds will immediately think of the famous painting “Starry Night” even before thinking about any self-portrait of him. Looking at a vast starry sky, we feel a sense of awe, and have the urge to romanticize our own life. Maybe Van Gogh wanted to feel the same, but he never got the chance to do so for all the adversities he had to go through, unlike any other ordinary people. The Dutch painter, Vincent Willem Van Gogh (1853-1890) was not any type of artist when he was young. Vincent Van Gogh, a painting by John Peter Russell, 1886 To afford the basic necessities one needs to survive in life, he used to work different jobs. After getting kicked out of his work one day, he started wandering around countries in search of jobs; while also sometimes painting his surroundings, or sometimes painting people. At the age of 27, the starving Vincent finally decided to embrace his identity as an artist and went to France in 1886 to pu...