Vincent Van

Gogh´s Biography
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Student: Jose Isidro Vargas Marte
PRESENTATION PAGE
Grade: 4to ESO (B Section) COVER PAGE
Class: Literature Optative QUESTIONNAIRES (3)
Teacher: Carmen Almonte BIOGRAPHY
School: Sagrado Corazon de Jesus WRITTEN EXPRESSION
READING REPORT
SELF-REFLECTION
 QUESTIONARIES
(1: CONNECT TO THE READING)

Who is Teo? What details from the letters allow you to reach this conclusion? Is Vincent
brother, we know because the love they told him In all letters

What details imply you Van Gogh is struggling economically? He was talking about he is
short of money

What key details revelated in letter 183 regarding Teo and Vincent relationship? Theo is the
art dealer of the Vincent’s paints

What does Vincent feel in Letter 302? Is he physically ill, emotional ill, or both? Explain:
Both because he is tired and have economic problems

Explain the importance of the following quotation: In fact, I have no real friends, but you,
and when I am in low spirits, I always think of you” What does this reveal about Vincent and
Teo relationship? Vincent appreciates Theo a lot

Describe the relationship between Vincent and Gauguin? They we roommates, but a
despair roommates

What does the ear incident reveal about Vincent personality? He is VERY Impulsive

Where is Vincent when he writes Letter 591 what is significant about this place: In a hospital
called Saint-Remy

Does Vincent paint while in Saint-Remy? Yes, one of this was “Still Alive”

What does Vincent recommend Teo do? Become an artist instead of a dealer

In his last Letter to Theo, Vincent implies that he has been more than “A simple dealer” How
has Teo been more than a dealer: He is a great person and Vincent best friend and
brother, he thinks Theo can be an Artist

 QUESTIONARIES
(2: ANALYZE THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS)
Who you think Vincent refers to when he says: “I think they would not begrudge me the
little money I get from you”? The money who receive isn’t enough to survive

What is the Vincent’s mood in Letter 183? Use specific details to support your answer: It is
feeling he is progressing and getting right

There is another significant shift in mood in Letter 302. What specific details let you know
that Vincent is depressed? He only felt one person love him, and he doesn’t win enough
money to been good

Explain the significance of the following quotation: “At such moments one wished one
were made of iron, and regrets that one only fresh and blood”? The machines (made of
Iron) don’t feel anything, but humans have feelings, like been tired or depressed

 What does Vincent mean when he says: “Work often absorbs me so much that I think that
for the rest of my life I will always be bit absent-minded and awkward”? His job Is making
him lose him mind when he felt the world does not valorate appropriately

What role does poverty play in Vincent’s mental illness? Was stressing him and becoming
him more instable

What is Vincent’s opinion of madness? How does being in an asylum change his
perspective? He thinks was fine but he isn’t thinks was go to be better

Explain the following quotation:” Well, I have risked my life for my work, and it has cost me
half my reason…? He sacrifice everything to do what he like, and that was being an
Artist

When he discusses the relationship between painters and the business of selling their
paintings he says: “We can only make our pictures speak” What does he mean by this?
Can a painting sell itself? The paintings cannot be selled by himself, the sellers are the
people who made the paints been in the knowledge of the people, are like a traductors
to the paint’s language

 QUESTIONARIE
(3: EVALUATE THE READING)
Vincent closes his last letter to
Theo with a question “But what
What do you think of Vincent do you expect?” Do you think
Van Gogh after reading some he did this intentionally, or is
of his letters? the letter unfinished
He was a very emotional and Instable That final sentence hits hard knowing the
person, with a much creativity context of the Vincent’s life, I think that was
Intended to be like that

What do you think about Theo

Van Gogh after reading the
Do you think that Vincent Van
letters his brother sent him
Gogh was tortured artist? Why He was an honest person and a good
or why not? brother
Not, because he was working like an artist
because he like
 BIOGRAPHY
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands; on March 30, 1853.
He was the son of a Protestant pastor named Theodorus van Gogh and Anna
Cornelia Carbentus, from whose marriage five children were born.
He studied until the age of fifteen at the Hannik Tilburg Institute. He tried to
become a theologian in 1877, but because he knew neither Greek nor Latin, he
was rejected. He was sent to Belgium as a missionary to the region of Mons
among the miners of Borinage.
His early compositions reveal his experiences as a preacher, in the tosa and
direct The Potato Eaters, being one of only ten engravings he made during his
career.
He traveled to Paris in 1866, where he began to live with his brother Théo, who
was an art dealer and it was there, that he began to familiarize himself with the
new artistic proposals that were booming. The influence of Ando Hiroshige and
Hokusai, among others, motivated him to experiment with the techniques of the
moment.

He had the illusion of founding a Midday Workshop, for this reason in 1888 he left Paris and moved to the
south of France, with the idea of enthusing his friends to follow his ideal. He gave himself completely to
painting, creating various works, and using as inspiration the burning sun of Provence, he drew with such
passion, transmitting all his feeling in each work.
Paul Gauguin was one of the artists who let himself be infected by his enthusiasm, an impressive artistic
fusion but that did not last long, after two months the harmony fell to the ground and they began to have
strong confrontations, to such an extent that Van Gogh dared to threaten Gauguin with a knife; A victim
of remorse, Van Gogh cut off his ear that same night.
He was hospitalized in an insane asylum and at that same time he took the opportunity to work, but
prisoner of his attacks of madness. For three months in Auvers he was attended by a physician Paul
Gachet, to whom he painted a portrait in 1890.
Van Gogh's health complications were many due to malnutrition and poverty. In the late nineteenth
century, he was addicted to wormwood cane, a popular narcotic drink. He suffered from syphilis, lead
poisoning, epilepsy, and Meniere's syndrome.
In 1890 he culminates his disturbing Crows on the wheat field, and it was on July 27, of that same year,
when a shot was fired in the stomach, he crawled to his house in Auvers, and two days later in the arms of
his brother, he finally died.

WRITTEN EXPRESION
 ·¿WHO WERE THE MAIN CHARACTERS?
01 The main character of this relate is the popular

BOOK Nederland painter: Vincent van Gogh

READING 02
·WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM THEY FACED?
Van Gogh’s life was full of economical and psychological

REPORT problems, because he don’t produce that much money to

have a life where he can always have bread in the table

·WHEN AND WHERE DID THE STORY TAKE PLACE?

03 From the years 1853 to 1890 in Netherlands, and Paris

·WHY WAS THE STORY INTERESTING TO YOU?

The story was interesting for a small detail, which in consideration
04 was also the most important, is that this is a true story of a real
person.

·HOW DID THEY OVERCOME THE PROBLEM? :

Vincent van Gogh is a person who is not what is considered normal
05 to what we have today, instead of taking things calmly or similar,
he had impulsive attacks making decisions very out of the ordinary,
as with his conflict with Gauguin and his ear, or when to give value
to his paintings, He shot himself in the chest
 Self-Reflexion
The history of the tragic life of Vincent van Gogh’s and
how he obtains the value he was searching after dead it
is curious, demonstrating how many
Van Gogh died saying that he wanted him to be valued
as he wanted, and when he died, his paintings gained
value. But that is a value that he could never enjoy…

But even if you get yourself valued in the way you feel comfortable... What is the point if

you cannot live to tell how you felt when you were valued?

What I would like to say is that Vincent found value in death so that the paintings he

made obtained their value and are considered cult, after spending an anecdotic and

very peculiar life, recorded in the memory of his family, his letters, and in the paintings,

where the true mind of an artist will always be.

Thanks for your

attention!
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