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...young man, Vincent Van Gogh, the son of a Calvinist minister, worked as a lay preacher among the poor coal miners of Belgium. At 26 he was dismissed by church authorities because his methods were too unorthodox (e.g., he gave his money, his clothes, even his bed to his flock). But for the rest of his short (1853-90), tormented life, Van Gogh's art showed a religious fervor that made his work leap from the canvas into the heart...
...first big U.S. show of Van Gogh's art, in 1935-36, attracted nearly a million people in five cities. A second exhibition in 1949-50 drew half a million in New York and Chicago alone. Last week the third major U.S. Van Gogh show opened at the City Art Museum of St. Louis: after Nov. 30 it will go to Philadelphia and Toledo. Among the 96 paintings and 85 drawings on view were such familiar items as Sunflowers and The Bedroom; there were also lesser known but equally powerful canvases, including the two masterpieces shown on the next...
Sidewalk Cafe was painted in 1888 at Aries, in the south of France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...
Cypresses was done a year later at Saint-Remy, where Van Gogh was confined in an asylum. Between plunges into the depths of despair. Van Gogh painted brilliantly, and the turbulence of his own spirit is seen in the work of this period...
...Gogh sank deeper and deeper into madness, and in the end committed suicide. But he never quite lost his religious feeling, which he once expressed in a painter's evaluation of Christ: "[He was] more of an artist than all the others, disdaining marble and clay and color, working in the living flesh...