Van Gogh’s family disapproved of Hoornik and the relationship eventually ended. In the early 1880s, when he was starting out as an artist and living with his parents in the Netherlands, he fell in love with his widowed cousin, Kee Vos-Stricker. “Love, on the other hand, is a much broader concept that includes deeper emotional connection and, usually, a desire to make that relationship last,” he says. What do we mean by ‘love’ and ‘lust’? He defines lust as a state of overwhelming sexual and physical attraction to another person. b : enthusiasm, eagerness admired his lust for life. 2a : an intense longing : craving a lust to succeed.

Two American writers have dug deep, providing a highly detailed and stimulating account of the artist’s entire life (with 28,000 footnotes available online).ġ : usually intense or unbridled sexual desire : lasciviousness He was motivated more by lust than by love. “Another doorstopper, at 953 pages, it is the definitive biography.

'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.Van Gogh: The Life (2011) by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith. No other novel of a great man’s life has so fascinated the American public for generations. Finally, it shows us Van Gogh driven mad, tragic, and triumphant at once. The novel takes us from his desperate days in a coal mine in southern Belgium to his dazzling years in the south of France, where he knew the most brilliant artists (and the most depraved whores). Here is his tempestuous story: his dramatic life, his fevered loves for both the highest-born women and the lowest prostitutes, and his paintings-for which he was damned before being proclaimed a genius. The most famous of all of Stone’s novels, it is the story of Vincent Van Gogh-brilliant painter, passionate lover, and alleged madman. Since its initial publication in 1934, Irving Stone’s Lust for Life has been a critical success, a multimillion-copy bestseller, and the basis for an Academy Award-winning movie. The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh “A story of excruciating power.”- The New York Times

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