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Religion in the Paintings of van Gogh Nowadays, perhaps, it is difficult to find the person to whom name Vincent Van Gogh would be unfamiliar, the Dutch artist, who created his masterpieces at the end of XIX century in France. He has been not recognized as great artist by contemporaries, but at descendants has got unprecedented popularity. Canvas of his brush, after hundred years after their creation, became not only one of the most expensive products of the modern art, they, at last, have been appreciated by experts and judges of original masterpieces. Youthful years of Van Gogh have passed in various branches of a company "Gupil" where it he worked as the seller of pictures. In the course of time relations between Vincent and "Gupil" became more and more tense, and in May, 1875 he was transferred in the Parisian branch of the firm. After one year it became clear, that Vincent does not get any pleasure anymore working with pictures which do not correspond to his own tastes at all.

Vincent has left gallery Gupil at the end of March, 1876 and also has decided to return to England where he has spent two more or less happy years. In the beginning of April Vincent has arrived in Even. He was not going to be late here for a long time. He did not want to be a burden for parents, which despite of that took care of him too for a long time.

Tenderness of mother and father, excited with disturbing letters of his brother, has not softened, and, on the contrary, has even more strongly irritated in his soul bitterness of repentance. Vincent wrote a letter to Saint Father Stokes - director of an educational boarding house in Ramstgate, who has offered him in the institution a place of the teacher. Soon Vincent came back to England. On April, 16 Vincent has arrived in Ramstgate, very small town on a mouth of Thames, in a county Kent. He examined a neighboring landscape with interest - cedars in a garden, stone dams of port, and also he put branches of sea seaweed in letters. Occasionally he drove pupils on walk to seacoast.

Vincent has not showed himself as the brilliant teacher at all. He taught everything gradually - French and German, arithmetic's, spelling... But more willingly, looking on a sea landscape spread behind a window, he occupied his pupils with stories about Brabant and his beauty. He entertained them also with Andersen's fairy tales and retelling novels of Shatrian. The summer of 1876 became for Vincent Van Gogh a turning-point in his attitude to religion. In spite of the fact that he has grown in religious family, until then he did not think seriously devoting his life of Church.

With the purpose to train for a new profession from the teacher to the priest, Vincent addresses to Saint Jones with the request to give him more duties, inherent in the ecclesiastic. Saint Jones has agreed, and Vincent has started reading prays for parishioners of church Ternham Green. Reading of prays was Vincent's preparation for mission which he waited for a long time. It was his first Sunday sermon. Vincent did not spare the forces, ate poorly and always hastily, spending all days in prays and in work, and toward the end, not having sustained, he got ill.

He has enthusiastically accepted this illness, considering, similar to Pascal, that she is a natural condition of the person. The grief is better than pleasure. The instinct prompts Vincent that, the one who aspires to heights of spirit, should not be afraid of unusual ways, and to give himself fully to the elected business. (Masheck J. D.

p. 123) But he was absolutely exhausted. And than the Christmas has approached again. Vincent has returned to Holland. After short work in book shop in Dordreht in the beginning of 1877, Van Gogh, following the desire to serve Church, has decided to start trainings in theology in Amsterdam. At first Vincent with enthusiasm has plunged into study, but after occupation became more and more difficult for him, it began to seem to him, that the majority of lessons do not correspond to his own representations and his strongest desire was to have his own ward... persistently continued to study practically up to the end of 1878.

It has turned out, that for him Latin language was one of the most difficult rates, - though, on a twist of fate he rather freely spoke in four languages: Dutch, English, French and German. In November Vincent has not passed a three-monthly trial period at missionary school in Laekene. But Vincent Van Gogh has agreed with Church upon the beginning of passage of a trial period in one of the poorest and deserted regions in the East Europe: Miner's area on a coal mining in Borinage, Belgium. In January, 1879 Vincent has started the duties of ward priest for coal miners and their families in miner's village Values. Vincent experienced sincere affection to miners. He sympathized with heavy working conditions of their work and as the spiritual instructor, tried to facilitate their heavy life very much.

Unfortunately, similar altruistic promptings have found a certain fanatical character when Vincent started to give the most part of the meal and clothes to the most desired of the wards. Despite of Vincent's noble intentions, representatives of Church have expressed the obvious disapproval of ascetic of Van Gogh and in July have removed it from his post. Van Gogh has not wanted to leave this area. He has moved to the nearest village, Kuzmes, and has remained there to live in full poverty. All next year Vincent day by day struggled for a piece of bread and though he was unable to help countrymen as the priest, he, nevertheless, has decided to stay to live in their society.

Once Vincent wanted to visit the house of French artist J. Breton whom he liked a lot, and with only 10 francs in a pocket he has passed on foot all of 70 kilometers up to the city where Breton lived to see him. However, after the arrival Vincent was ashamed to knock the door of the artist and, suppressed, has returned in Kuzmes. It was that time when Vincent started to draw miners and their families, embodying awful conditions in which they lived, when Vincent Van Gogh has finally understood his calling - the calling to be the artist. (Heinich N. p. 78) The love to beauty, probably, has arisen in a youth when the future master worked as the seller of paintings in interiors of firm Gupil. However peripeteia of private life, the experience which has been saved up for so small period, and, that is important, an example of the father have led him to an idea that is necessary to carry the Gods word to the world and people.

So, young preacher Vincent Van Gogh gets in the Belgian miner's settlement under name Borinage. As the person, who felt very slightly, he could not remain indifferent to what he saw there - to the poverty and lawlessness. Comprehension of that he cannot facilitate a life of inhabitants of Borinage, forces Van Gogh to reflect on sense and advantage of his profession, and more likely, about its senselessness. So, gradually he departs from activity of the preacher and starts to be engaged in sketches from nature. (Rewald J. p. 54) Bibliography: W. H.

Auden: Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait; Letters Revealing His Life as a Painter, New York Graphic Society, 1961; Joseph D. Masheck: Van Gogh 100, Greenwood Press, 1996; Nathalie Heinich: The Glory of Van Gogh: An Anthropology of Admiration, Princeton University Press, 1996 Kathleen Powers Erickson: At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent Van Gogh, W. B. Eerdmans, 1998; Albert Skira, Charles Estienne, S.

J. C. Harrison: Van Gogh: The Taste of Our Time, Skira, 1953; John Rewald: Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin, Museum of Modern Art, 1956.


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