The most famous mystery about the mutilation of art history may finally be solved: according to one scholar, to push Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear was to learn that his brother Theo, from which the artist depended financially and psychologically, was to marry. This suggestion by Martin Bailey, author of a book on Van Gogh and the editor of two exhibitions of his work, which will treat the next issue of The Art Newspaper, early today by the Sunday Times. The theory on a Van Gogh overwhelmed by the fear that his brother, took the new marital commitments, would not have more affordable, was produced by Bailey after a thorough investigation into a letter that contained in a master of Sunflowers painting completed shortly after he cut his ear. According to Bailey, the letter was written by the same Theo from Paris in December 1888 and contained news of her engagement, which would have a winner already deeply troubled psychologically disturbed and would have led, shortly before Christmas 1888, the famous gesture of self-harm, the reasons for which hitherto had remained shrouded in mystery. "Vincent was afraid of losing the psychological and financial support of his brother," Bailey writes in The Art Newspaper in January. For years, cut off the ear of the Dutch genius has been at the heart of most explanations disparate.Qualcuno blamed his folly, someone explained the madness of Van Gogh with lead content in the colors, others have cited the end of his friendship with Paul Gauguin, to the point that scholars of the University of Hamburg have claimed that it was the same Gauguin, with whom Van Gogh shared a house in Arles, to cut off his ear during a fight for a prostitute named Rachel. This explanation, however, was rejected by both the Go Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from the same Bailey. Of his mental instability, however, Van Gogh gave ample proof when, 19 months after he cut off his ear, he shot himself in the chest and died after two days of agony. The letter at the heart of the theory of Bailey would be the same that appears in the painting "Still Life: Table with onions", painted by Van Gogh in January 1889, barely a month after being wounded, and that will be on display in the exhibition at the Royal Academy in London opening next month
lunedì 28 dicembre 2009
The most famous mystery about the mutilation of art history may finally be solved: according to one scholar, to push Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear was to learn that his brother Theo, from which the artist depended financially and psychologically, was to marry. This suggestion by Martin Bailey, author of a book on Van Gogh and the editor of two exhibitions of his work, which will treat the next issue of The Art Newspaper, early today by the Sunday Times. The theory on a Van Gogh overwhelmed by the fear that his brother, took the new marital commitments, would not have more affordable, was produced by Bailey after a thorough investigation into a letter that contained in a master of Sunflowers painting completed shortly after he cut his ear. According to Bailey, the letter was written by the same Theo from Paris in December 1888 and contained news of her engagement, which would have a winner already deeply troubled psychologically disturbed and would have led, shortly before Christmas 1888, the famous gesture of self-harm, the reasons for which hitherto had remained shrouded in mystery. "Vincent was afraid of losing the psychological and financial support of his brother," Bailey writes in The Art Newspaper in January. For years, cut off the ear of the Dutch genius has been at the heart of most explanations disparate.Qualcuno blamed his folly, someone explained the madness of Van Gogh with lead content in the colors, others have cited the end of his friendship with Paul Gauguin, to the point that scholars of the University of Hamburg have claimed that it was the same Gauguin, with whom Van Gogh shared a house in Arles, to cut off his ear during a fight for a prostitute named Rachel. This explanation, however, was rejected by both the Go Gogh Museum in Amsterdam from the same Bailey. Of his mental instability, however, Van Gogh gave ample proof when, 19 months after he cut off his ear, he shot himself in the chest and died after two days of agony. The letter at the heart of the theory of Bailey would be the same that appears in the painting "Still Life: Table with onions", painted by Van Gogh in January 1889, barely a month after being wounded, and that will be on display in the exhibition at the Royal Academy in London opening next month
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