Posted on 05/05/2009 5:37:22 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
...'Van Gogh's Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence' contends Van Gogh and Gauguin got into an argument over a prostitute named Rachel outside the brothel where she worked. Gauguin, an excellent fencer, drew his sword and cut off Van Gogh's left ear.
"The left ear fell. We cannot say if it was deliberate or an accident. In this situation, the protagonists vowed to keep silent. Then Gauguin disappeared, abandoning his friend," Kaufmann said, according to the Daily Mall.
Gauguin, according to the book, dumped the sword in the nearby Rhone River. Van Gogh handed the severed ear to the prostitute and then staggered home, where police found the injured artist the next day. Van Gogh did not give the police any information and ended up letting them think he had mutilated himself.
Gauguin kept silent because he didn’t want to face charges and Van Gogh didn’t tell because he was infatuated with Gauguin, the book says...
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Bad people tend to promote bad ideologies. Why? Because they're attempting to justify their sinful lives. Paul Johnson makes this case very well in his book, "Intellectuals."
Oh fer crying out loud.j
YOu are saying Van Gogh and Gaughin were liberals?
You need to step away from politics. It is making you have tunnel visio.
I am far less concerned with who cut off Vincent Van Gogh’s ear than with the individual who put a knife into Theo Van Gogh’s chest. THAT’S the thing we need to worry about.
You did know he produced a number of works of art that continue to be widely sought after.
It's after the ear cutting event that he appears to have had what used to be called "a mental breakdown". He went to an asylum. He got out. He went back. Eventually during the period when he was doing the "Crow" paintings (he did several) he managed to shoot himself.
Leftwingtards believe he commited suicide out of an inability to deal with existential angst. Others think he had an accident due to his failure to take proper firearms training from local experts.
You be the judge.
Tycho lost his nose in a sword duel during his college days in Germany, apparently in a similar dispute. (I suspect his chaperone got into some trouble over this. He was a noble Dane sent to Germany to study along with a chaperone to keep him out of trouble. He was supposed to be studying the law, but actually “majored” in astronomy.) He was buried with his silver nose.
I'm saying that they are icons of the Left and Modernity. Because their ugly art was/is anti-realist, it is celebrated by the Left. The Left is anti-rational, as is modernity.
You can add them to the list of pathetic modern "artists" like Picasso.
Can you hear me now??
People widely seek after cans of poop produced by modern "artists." Why? Becaue they're hoping to sell them tomorrow for more than what they paid for them today.
No one likes or wants modern art. It's a giant speculative bubble. So many wealthy people are invested in it, that they can't afford for the bubble to collapse. But when it does, when someone finally shouts, "the emperor has no clothes," the bubble will collapse, and I will be laughing my butt off.
I'm gonna bet you have never seen this painting in real life.
Read E. Michael Jones’ “Degenerate Moderns” for much more on this.
Amaia Montero of course.
Well not anymore, they got a new singer.
Good grief.
Van Gogh and Gauguin and Picasso are more than icons of the left.
YOu have a somewhat limited view of art. ANd modernity.
He is dead dear,,for decades and decades. Maybe a century,,not sure of the date. But not to worry.
Van Gogh drank alot and seemed to be mentally ill to me.
Van Gogh and Gauguin were post impressionists, hardly moedern.
"What's this ear?" Van Gogh was heard to remark...
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip the waitress.
There is a Dali museum in St. Pete. Dali's got some interesting holograms. Otherwise, I find most of his works bizarre.
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