Paula Bradi Power of Art Van Gogh In the Simon Schama's documentary is clearly shown who is real Van

n Gogh, his struggle with life and mental illness and paintings primarily !e was a talented impressionist whose paintings are masterpieces !e was painting e"ery day, li#e some demon, so it is not surprising that he made so many of them !is most famous paintings are $%heat filed with crows&, $'he Potato (aters&, $Sunflowers&, $)ight *afe&, $*lassina !oorni#& and a lots of portraits 'o find a real Vincent Van Gogh you ha"e to read his letters mostly written to his younger +rother 'heo ,rom them you can see that he was thoughtful, o+ser"ant, intelligent and sensiti"e 'heo was an art dealer in Paris !e supported Vincent career although his paintings were unseala+le Vincent's paintings were dar# so no+ody wants to +uy them In Paris was e"erything +right in that time -espite that, he sent money to Vincent Vincent li"ed the life of the mind under the surface In the +eginning he tried to find sal"ation !e considers himself a preacher who is out to safe a souls !e did his +est +ut then he turned to a different way of preaching !e started to paint Vincent was nearly ./ years old when he started to paint +ut he had no pro+lems with lac# of e0perience !e #nown that painting is in his +ones !e was right 'he art +ring him sal"ation and comfort !e want to +ring the art to people saying that hea"en is in simple things ,rench countryside had influenced a lot on Van Gogh life an paintings !e start to use colors and +ecame addicted to them Paintings are wor#ed for him li#e orgasm Vincent want to share his creating nest with Paul Gauguin, which he met in Paris Paul find him as a friendly competition After a month Gauguin start to +ecome 1ealous +ecause of Van Gogh's e"eryday painting, so he painted portrait of Vincent with sunflowers Vincent started to changed mood !e was unhappy and frustrated %hen Paul left, Vincent committed himself to a mental asylum !e had attac#s +ut he feel +etter when he paint !is mental illness get worse from time to time 2esult of that was cutting a part of the left ear 1ust when Paul left and eating yellow paint !e died on the 34 of 5uly 674/ !e was e0traordinary person !is masterpiece %heat ,ields with crows is +eginning of modern art !e want people to feel his masterpieces, not only to see them