The death of Vincent van Gogh

[Eldorado]

Culture is a discourse constructed on the shaky ground of narrative.

The history of the arts requires an angle, and the angle applied to the narrative surrounding Vincent Van Gogh is one of a troubled genius, a painter whose pioneering works were placed in the hands of time and slid through the fingers of her ungrateful grasp, resulting in dejection and ultimately suicide.

His pictures have forever been coloured in the retrospective lustre of solemnity, some dower notion that behind the beauty lies the double-tragedy that they were the product of suffering and their creator never got to bask in the boon of recognitions glow.

Van Gogh’s story has been recapitulated a thousand times over, and usually, it is a misbegotten falsehood.

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