Sunflower: The Giant Embracing the Sun

Author: A_mul_Batu
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "The era of visual reading has arrived! The 'Painting Masters Series' is a carefully crafted illustrated book series by the National Publishing House! The extraordinary lives of world-renowned painting masters, combined with the elegant prose of a PhD in art history from France, and the exquisite illustrations interspersed throughout the text, are sure to bring you a feast for the eyes. He began painting at the age of 28 and, in less than a decade of his painting career, created over 1,600 oil paintings and other artworks. Many of his finest works were completed while he was confined in a mental asylum. He never married in his lifetime, as no woman was willing to marry him, and out of necessity, he had to live with a discarded prostitute who had four children. He had very few friends in his life. His closest friend nearly killed him after an argument, and in a fit of rage, he cut off his own ear and gave it to the prostitute as payment for sex. A few months before his suicide at the age of 37, a painting titled 'The Red Vineyard' was purchased by a kind fellow artist, which was the only work he sold during his lifetime, for less than $10. Today, the price of his surviving works ranges from 40,000 to 800,000 U.S. dollars per piece, a record in the history of world art that has yet to be broken. His name was Vincent van Gogh. It was 50 years after his death that his name was finally remembered. At that time, people discovered the words he had written in blood and tears on the walls of the asylum: 'I am sane, I am the Holy Spirit.'"