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Essay about Vincent
van Gogh When Vincent started almost all painters painted for the elite in the society. No one painted the life of the worker or for the common man. They believed that there would not be a market for such paintings and in a way Vincent proved them right by not selling one painting of his in his life. All subjects for painting were what was selling in the market, like religious scenes, portraits, idealized or symbolic scenes of nature. With the exception of Millet, who Vincent admired greatly, no painter took as a subject the daily work and life of the worker. Vincent did. He painted the Potato Eaters, he painted their shoes, their faces. He painted their poverty, the truth of their daily life.
Vincent was so concerned about the common man and worker that he first tried to bring them comfort by becoming a vicar and preaching to them. He ended up giving away all his money and possessions to them and living in more abysmal circumstances than they did. He felt he had failed in his attempt to relief them. He turned to his gift - art and painting, but did not forget his people. He painted them, he painted for them. Again he gave all, went to the bone, he searched the nerve endings, he tried to reveal the essence of beauty that is covered by our view of life. And he did, he succeeded, he went where no one else had gone and revealed to all of us beauty and colours of life and nature with an intensity so pure, so honest and sincere that all of us are still touched in our deeper self and soul by his magnificence in simplicity, truth and naked beauty.
He wanted to be among us, he is among us. He is the painter by far the most reproduced in the world. The posters of his paintings can be found in all corners of the world. Vincent is universal in his emotion, he is able to touch people in all countries of the world. During the 1990 Centenary Exhibition in Amsterdam, we have sold his tapestries to Vincent van Gogh admirers in: - list of countries -
In Vincent van Gogh spirit, his ambition and ideal to help the poor and disadvantaged, part of the revenues from the Vincent van Gogh tapestries have contributed to projects that foster World Peace. Through the sales of the Vincent van Gogh tapestries at the 1990 Centenary Exhibition, the International Commission on Peace and Food (ICPF) was supported and the publication of its report made possible. The report recommends the following steps to be taken for World Peace and Prosperity: - World Army: a member state World Peace Army that will ensure that no nation will attack another nation; - Food for All: peace is necessary for economic development to bring the 1 billion people above the poverty line; - Guaranteed Employment: government must come forward to decide to make employment a human right; - Theory of Development: a theory of development for unfailing success to be formulated that can help economies to go through transitions phases without economic disaster; - Human Resourcefulness: there are limits to physical resources, mental resources though are unlimited; the real resource, the resource of all resources is the human being, it is a creative force that can solve all pressing problems in the world. The full report of the ICPF can be viewed at www.motherservice.org.
If the recommendations of the ICPF are implemented in the world, Vincent's ambition and ideal will be fulfilled: peace and prosperity for all people in the world and partly through his work, his art, his purity of emotion and ideal. He has taken nothing for himself, did not sell one painting during his life, but has given his all to the people of the world. He is a hero of the purest sort. He has become the most successful painter in the world.
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