notes

Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey


Father was a preacher.
Uncle cent was an art dealer.
Brother Theo
Vincent known for writing letters painting sunflowers

sent from Hague to London @20
slumming走访贫民窟
favorite writer: Dickens
one of his favorite victorian sentimentalist: Luke Fildes
#Paintings of empty chairs#

secretly loved Landlady's daughter Eugenie
Found religion
"Get rid of all your books, and keep only the Bible"

transfer to Paris
Montmartre

Found a job in Ramsgate
walk walk walk- pilgrim
#Paintings of boots#

The Reverend
missionary
preach sermon in English

Didn't return to Isleworth after Christmas
Instead to Dordrecht: book dealer
#Paintings of books#
speak four languages: Dutch, French, English, German
But hopeless in Latin and Greek
If studies don't go well, beat himself deliberately自虐
dropped out of the theology course
failed to go to training school for evangelist
trail period ministering to miners in Borinage "Black earth country "
to preach against promiscuity and sin
notoriously long sermons
conduct bible classes
share their misery
"Oh Esther,don't worry about the details, they don't matter in heaven"
#Paintings of Borinage Miners#

Germinal by Emile Zola: finest mining novel

Roche Dieu "Rock of God"
walk to Brussels

Reverend encouraged
back to Borinage
at last conclude to be an artist

return to Brussels "The land of pictures"
instinctive copyist
Father and Theo send him money
#Two towers#
#Paintings of working people#
In Etten, fell in love with his cousin Kee, a widow
"No, no never"
Followed her to Amsterdam
years later with Gauguin #Memory of a garden in etten#

Hague
sought out a prostitute Sien
the only woman he ever lived with
"The woman is as attached to me as a tame dove"
#Sorrow#