Since he was born, Vincent van Gogh (30th March 1853 - 29th July 1890) has been drowning in his family’s background in art dealership and to uphold their reputation in that particular class. Three of his uncles were art dealers, and his mother’s family were intimately connected through the visual arts. Vincent was also very connected with his family and appeared to have a particularly strong bond with his younger brother, Theo Van Gogh. They wrote letters to each other frequently, and those letters are what were strongly guessed kept Vincent from killing himself due to his violent mood swings in depression and his feeling of uselessness in the world. When Vincent failed in becoming an art dealer, he became a producer. Theo followed suite several years later with more success than his older brother. Vincent made approximately no income and depended on his younger brother to have his financial support. Because of this, his family started to lose status from hearing of the eldest son being unable to support anything. Because of his lack of success in art and stability in financial concerns, Vincent’s family …show more content…
Vincent was homeschooled until the age of twelve when he was sent away to attend boarding school. Although Vincent didn’t have much contact with other people, as he had a strong lack of public speaking, his companionship with nature was not. He used his daily walks through the countryside to help fuel his art style, and after he graduated from school, started exploring his style of art by collecting prints, illustrations taken from magazines, and fine art prints, especially japanese woodblock prints. He created his style of art by trying different styles of art, including realistic, which he was very good at except that he felt he had no freedom in his paintings from it, and decided to continue on in different practices until he was finally able to find his impressionistic painting