Art Article

Van Gough’s lost painting was just discovered in an attic were it had been placed after being claimed fake. This article explains how amazing it is that such an amazing, expensive, important painting was just disregarded and forgotten about. Throughout this article the author portrays Van Gough as a very important classy art figure. He is describe and painted as a person every artist looks up to. The second article I read was an article about the cutting of Van Gough’s ear. When I was searching about him this obviously caught my attention right away and I had to find what happened. So reading into it I was a little bit surprised. Apparently Van Gough cut off his own ear for an act of self-hurt this theory is very gross and disturbing. The second theory about the chopping off of his ear is that he and his friend got into a fight and with a changing sword his friend chops off his ear. To stop his friend from execution he doesn’t say a word and remains silent. The biggest thing to compare between these articles is how Van Gough is portrayed as a person. What’s an amazing artist in one is a troubled self-mutilating person in the other. It really shows you how the context of what you’re talking about someone can change how you view that person. Van Gogh seemed like an amazing figure in the art world and then a troubled person in the other. I think it is very cool that we were able to discover this amazing painting that can now be enjoyed and used as an inspiration to many future artists.