By the late 19th and early 20th century, however, blurring the edges between music and the other arts had become a widespread obsession. The Romantics had their own, similar, thoughts: Goethe declared that architecture was "frozen music", and the mid-Victorian über-aesthete Walter Pater breathlessly announced that "all art aspires towards the condition of music". The Pythagoreans were probably the first westerners at it when they declared: "The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears for harmony, and these are sister sciences." This relatively simple proposition was taken up by medieval and later sages, who developed it into a vast intellectual undergrowth of arcane and convoluted theories of how music and the mathematical proportions of creation were one and the same.
His younger brother Theo supported him financially, and the two kept a long correspondence by letter.P laying with the boundaries between the visual and the musical is an old game. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often traveling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.īorn into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. Today in history Vincent van Gogh was born 170 years ago today Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.
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