Sunflower The Giant Embracing the Sun

Author: A Mur
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: "The era of visual reading has arrived! The 'Painting Masters Series' is a series of illustrated book series meticulously crafted by the National Publishing House! The extraordinary lives of world-famous 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 artistic 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 life, as no woman was willing to marry him, and was forced to live with a discarded prostitute who had four children. He had very few friends in his lifetime. His closest friend nearly killed him after an argument, and in a fit of anger, 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, an oil 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 prices of his surviving works range from 40,000 to 800,000 U.S. dollars per piece, a record in the history of world art that remains unmatched to this day. His name was Vincent van Gogh. It was only 50 years after his death that his name was finally recognized. 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.'"