![]() ![]() ![]() Psychologists and biographers have long pored over these letters to come up with various explanations for van Gogh’s life, some of them confirming or fuelling the popular images. Today they’re available online for free via the Van Gogh Museum’s website. He wrote hundreds during his lifetime and they were preserved and published by his family after his death. The most important element of this material is undoubtedly van Gogh’s letters. Historians and sociologists of art are fortunate when considering these questions compared to, say, those interested in the makings of Leonardo da Vinci or Rembrandt, because of the sheer volume of biographical material available on van Gogh. We know he came to art in his late 20s, after a stint in the art trade and training for the clergy, but were these ventures undermined by his artistic temperament or mere stepping stones to the inevitable goal of expressive painting? ![]()
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