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Topic: Gogh

Related:
  Van Gogh    Vincent Van Gogh  
  Van Gogh's paintings    Vincent Van Gogh Oil Painting  
  Van Gogh's Sunflowers    Van Gogh's Starry Night  
  Van Gogh Biography    Vincent Van Gogh Biography  

 
 
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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite activity(s):Going to the movies
Most admires:Florence Nightingale,  Hillary Clinton
Favorite book(s):"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
Currently has on their coffee table:Vogue magazine
Interest(s):Origami
Favorite sport(s):Racquetball
Favorite movie(s):Full Metal Jacket,  The Sixth Sense,  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Favorite destination(s):Jamaica
Listens to:Rock and Roll
Favorite artist(s):Vincent Van Gogh,  Renoir,  Claude Monet
Favorite author(s):Winslow Homer
Favorite TV show(s):The Sopranos
Favorite quote(s):"Disco is to music what Etch-a-Sketch is to art."
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver, with some fava beans and a nice chianti...." - Silence of the Lambs
 
 
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Although Van Gogh only ever produced three copies of Japanese paintings, the Japanese influence on his art would be evident in subtle form throughout the rest of his life.
Van Gogh's letters to his brother lay bare his deepest feelings, everyday concerns, and views of the art world.
Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster

You should have put a little marinara sauce on the Van Goghs and served them with a bottle of Chianti.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

Van Gogh's portrait of Glasgow art dealer Alexander Reid, painted when the two men lived together briefly in Paris in the late 1880s, illustrates the role art dealers played in the formation of the collection at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery.
It was during this pivotal time that Vincent van Gogh chose his next and final career: as an artist.
Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model

Van Gogh wearing the blue overalls of a zinc-worker, would have little dots of color painted on his shirt sleeves.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

Van Gogh's proclivity for exaggerated colours and his embrance of yellow in particular are clear from his letters and, in contradistinction to chemical or physical insults modifying perception, artistic preference is the best working hypothesis to explain the yellow dominance in his palette.
Rob Verdann,
Afterdark Removalist

These Vincent van Gogh paintings have been stolen at the Van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam.
Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student

Van Gogh was kept in the hospital for ten days, but returned once again to the Yellow House, provisionally: "I hope for good.
My Van Gogh was the washer women and the boat by the old stone draw bridge, with the horse and covered wagon on it.
Van Gogh Family Tree After much careful research it has been discovered that the artist Vincent Van Gogh had many relatives.
Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker

Van Gogh took the train from Paris to Arles on 20 February 1888 heartened by his dreams for a prosperous future and amused by the passing landscape which he felt looked more and more Japanese the further south he travelled.
 
 
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