凡高的人生是成功还是失败的?英语小作文

Vincent van Gogh,for whom color was the chief symbol of expression,was born in Groot-Zundest,Holland.The son of a pastor,brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere,Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence.Between 1860 and 1880,when he finally decided to become an artist,van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore,an art salesman,and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium),where he was dismissed for overzealousness.He remained in Belgium to study art,determined to give happiness by creating beauty.The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned,sharply lit,genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885).In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo,the manager of Goupil's gallery.In Paris,van Gogh studied with Cormon,inevitably met Pissarro,Monet,and Gauguin,and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists.His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health.He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art.Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results.In a fit of epilepsy,van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor,was stopped by Gauguin,but ended up cutting his own ear off.Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.
In May of 1890,he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr.Gachet.Two months later he was dead,having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting.Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke,in symbolic and intense color,in surface tension,and in the movement and vibration of form and line.Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic,lyrically rhythmic,imaginative,and emotional,for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.

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这是一个难以回答的问题，无可置疑，凡高得到了后人的承认，他的伟大艺术天才中就被人们发现。但是，众所周知凡高在世的时候，生活是如此的窘迫，不得不靠别人的接济为生，这难道不引起后人的思考吗？判断人生是否成功，究竟是个人自身的体悟，还是基于别人的承认，凡高在世的时候，生活是很痛苦的，不管是在精神上还是在物质上，然而，他给后世的人带来了多少感动和生活的力量。那么你说凡...