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    Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his unique style using thick paint and circular brush strokes. During his 10 year career he produced over 800 paintings and 700 sketches but only sold one during his lifetime. He is most famous for paintings like "Sunflowers" and "Irises" and also known for cutting off his own ear and later committing suicide due to his mental illness. Now his paintings are valued at millions but he had little success during his life and influenced the development of modern art as one of the greatest Dutch painters after Rembrandt.

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    Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his unique style using thick paint and circular brush strokes. During his 10 year career he produced over 800 paintings and 700 sketches but only sold one during his lifetime. He is most famous for paintings like "Sunflowers" and "Irises" and also known for cutting off his own ear and later committing suicide due to his mental illness. Now his paintings are valued at millions but he had little success during his life and influenced the development of modern art as one of the greatest Dutch painters after Rembrandt.

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    Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his unique style using thick paint and circular brush strokes. During his 10 year career he produced over 800 paintings and 700 sketches but only sold one during his lifetime. He is most famous for paintings like "Sunflowers" and "Irises" and also known for cutting off his own ear and later committing suicide due to his mental illness. Now his paintings are valued at millions but he had little success during his life and influenced the development of modern art as one of the greatest Dutch painters after Rembrandt.

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    Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter known for his unique style using thick paint and circular brush strokes. During his 10 year career he produced over 800 paintings and 700 sketches but only sold one during his lifetime. He is most famous for paintings like "Sunflowers" and "Irises" and also known for cutting off his own ear and later committing suicide due to his mental illness. Now his paintings are valued at millions but he had little success during his life and influenced the development of modern art as one of the greatest Dutch painters after Rembrandt.

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    Van Gogh, Vincent

    (1853-90) a Dutch painter who went to live in southern France and who helped to
    develop the style of post-impressionism. His paintings typically use bright colours and
    have thick lines of paint in circular patterns, and the most famous ones include
    'Sunflowers' and 'Irises'. He is also famous for being mentally ill and for cutting off one
    of his ears and later killing himself.
    During his ten year long career he drew about 800 paintings and 700 sketches, of which
    he managed to sell only one. Nowdays his paintings are valued at millions of pounds. He
    left a strong influence to the development of modern art and he considered the greatest
    Dutch painter after Rembrandt.

    Song: Vincent ( Don Mclean )


    For they could not love you
    Starry starry night but still your love was true
    paint your palette blue and grey
    look out on a summer's day and when no hope was left in sight on
    with eyes that know the that starry
    darkness in my soul. starry night.
    Shadows on the hills You took your life
    sketch the trees and the daffodils as lovers often do;
    catch the breeze and the winter chills But I could have told you Vincent
    in colors on the snowy linen land. this world was never
    meant for one
    And now I understand what you tried to as beautiful as you.
    say to me
    how you suffered for your sanity Starry
    how you tried to set them free. starry night
    They would not listen portraits hung in empty halls
    they did not know how frameless heads on nameless walls
    perhaps they'll listen now. with eyes
    that watch the world and can't forget.
    Starry starry night Like the stranger that you've met
    flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze the ragged men in ragged clothes
    swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in the silver thorn of bloddy rose
    Vincent's eyes of China blue. lie crushed and broken
    Colors changing hue on the virgin snow.
    morning fields of amber grain
    weathered faces lined in pain And now I think I know what you tried
    are soothed beneath the artist's to say to me
    loving hand. how you suffered for your sanity
    how you tried to set them free.
    And now I understand what you tried to They would not listen
    say to me they're not
    how you suffered for your sanity list'ning still
    how you tried to set them free. perhaps they never will
    perhaps they'll listen now.
    Song: Vincent ( Don Mclean )
    For they could not _______________
    Starry starry night but still your love was true
    paint your palette blue and grey
    look out on _______________ and when no hope was left in sight on
    with eyes that know the that starry
    darkness in my soul. starry night.
    Shadows on the hills You took your life
    sketch the __________ and the daffodils as _______________
    catch the breeze and the winter chills But I could have told you Vincent
    in __________ on the snowy linen land. this world was never
    meant for one
    And now I understand what you tried to ________________ .
    say to me
    how you suffered for your sanity Starry
    how you tried to _______________ starry night
    They would not listen portraits hung in empty halls
    they did not know how frameless heads on nameless walls
    perhaps they'll _______________ with eyes
    that watch the world _______________.
    Starry starry night Like the stranger that you've met
    flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze the ragged men in ragged __________
    swirling _______ in violet haze reflect in the silver thorn of bloddy rose
    Vincent's eyes of China blue. lie crushed and broken
    Colors changing hue on the virgin __________.
    _______________ of amber grain
    weathered faces lined in pain And now I think I know what you tried
    are soothed beneath the artist's to say to me
    loving hand. how you suffered for your sanity
    how you tried to set them free.
    And now I understand what you tried to They would not listen
    say to me they're not
    how you suffered for your sanity list'ning still
    how you tried to set them free. perhaps they _______________
    perhaps they'll listen now.

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