Vincent Van Gogh's first painting is titled "The Potato
Eaters." It was painted in 1881 when Van Gogh was twenty-eight years old. It seems that
Van Gogh was bitten by a very powerful artistic bug. Over the next nine years Van Gogh
painted 900 paintings in total – at least those are the ones that have been found and
identified.
Ironically, Van Gogh's most famous paintings,
"Starry Night," Irises," and so forth were painted toward the end of his career while he
was institutionalized in Saint-Remy, France. As an aside, it has been proven that Van
Gogh was not actually mentally ill in the traditional sense, that many of his problems
were caused by physical afflictions.
For all intents and
purposes, Vincent Van Gogh's career ended in 1890.
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