Vincent van Gogh's last work, oil on paper.
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A lot of spin here below, so you might just decide you want to head out of here, before you get dizzy.Too much spin for you MFA expert's?The black holeThis is what the painting looks like taken outside in the light.Enhanced so the yellow circle show up good that represents Vincent's cut off ear and a good representation of the gun itself with the thumb pushing ever so gently on the trigger while the hammer is depressed showing the flash of the bullit chamber. You can see the little round hole where the bullit enters his body, blood soaked area with the rizing smoke from the barrel. The yellow formation rizing to the top represents his soul leaving his body.Another of his oil painting on paper gluded down on canvas that colors match pretty well.Vincent vanGoghI was ready to love anyone and everyone. The whole process is one which makes you quite different from your fellows and aggressive into the bargain. If I could only have found somebody in London who had any use for ears, I would have cut both of them off. But it is of course disgustingly aggressive to send anyone such things. Isn't it odd that no one, of the many whom I have met, liked me? You may think that it is rather pretentious to say so, but honestly there was not one.
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Not even you, Theo, although you have done everything for me. Why did you do it? You will say that is another of those questions to which only I expect an answer and that decent people are satisfied by deeds. But you see, that is just my disease, that I lack this decency which everyone else possesses. I know very well that you wanted to love me and that tomorrow you will love me terribly, so much so that it will kill you. But as long as I was there you only put up with me. You were always glad when I turn my back. There was something that made you prickle all over when I arrived. Come, admit it! I couldn't understand it either, because I could not even manage to suppress the external and superficial things which made you prickle and tingle.

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No, I do not have any plans of doing this to myself,... I just wanted to help people see what Vincent actually painted,... mainly for the ones who find it hard to see this way Vincent had painted it,...in the metaphor which it is showing his act of shooting himself.The following writing is taken from "Vincent van Gogh, A Biography" by Julius Meier-Graefe. Dover Publications. It describes a conversation between Vincent and Theo right before his death. Theo supposedly had finally "seen" what Vincent was doing in his art, but I sincerely doubt it.
He got up and turned to the collection of canvases. Vincent looked at his brother in amazement. How well he had said it all! Theo was more intelligent then all the modern critics and poets, and in general there was something in the metamorphosis which he had sketched. If, however, such interpretations were possible, no doubt the reverse could be deduced with equal logic. It would be good to know the truth before it was too late. Vincent had believed that he was just painting , say a tree or a women, without offending anyone, and instead of a tree or a women he painted something jagged, which hurt people and stung them, something over which they stumbled, something irritating. So the question arose as to whether it would have been wiser not to offend against the present, instead of helping the dim and distant future. No doubt the future was very great and there were many good things that could be said about it, but no one had been there yet."
Vincent's last paintings on paper in July of 1890.What a enhancement at the bottom of this painting of the two brothers, side-by-side,... doomed by fate,... which was most likely not able to be deciphered, acording to Vincent.
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The following writing is taken from "Vincent van Gogh, A Biography" by Julius Meier-Graefe. Dover Publications. It describes a conversation between Vincent and Theo right before his death. Theo supposedly had finally "seen" what Vincent was doing in his art, but I sincerely doubt it.He got up and turned to the collection of canvases. Vincent looked at his brother in amazement. How well he had said it all! Theo was more intelligent then all the modern critics and poets, and in general there was something in the metamorphosis which he had sketched. If, however, such interpretations were possible, no doubt the reverse could be deduced with equal logic. It would be good to know the truth before it was too late. Vincent had believed that he was just painting , say a tree or a women, without offending anyone, and instead of a tree or a women he painted something jagged, which hurt people and stung them, something over which they stumbled, something irritating. So the question arose as to whether it would have been wiser not to offend against the present, instead of helping the dim and distant future. No doubt the future was very great and there were many good things that could be said about it, but no one had been there yet."vanrijngo
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