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I've seen bits and peices of the movie 'Lust For Life', loving Kirk Douglas more and more every time i caught a glimpse of it. Come to think of it I cannot think of someone more suited to play Vincent Van Gogh than Kirk Douglas.

I often wonder what was it that Van Gogh went through to end his life. He probably committed suicide by lack of recognition for his genius. (Two months after his treatment he shot himself "for the good of all.")

During his brief career he had sold one painting. His finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line.

One cannot think of words like Impressionism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism without thinking of Van Gogh. His inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.

When i first heard about the life of Van Gogh (probably in third grade) I wept and wished if anyone could have been there to understand him probably then he wouldn't be so miserable. Few years later I realised he was not miserable at all, he did have that someone to understand him and take care, his younger brother Theodorus, who religeously and selfessly provided support in every possible way. I believe Vincent lived a very lucky life, it is Theo who lived an unfortunate life (comparing the two), worrying his entire life about Vincent so much so that just after 6 months of Vincents suicide he died.

Today,

Vincent Van Gogh has his paintings sold for millions of dollars. Has Kirk Douglas enacting him in LFL. Has Don McLean singing the ballad Vincent - Starry Starry Night (which was recently covered by Josh Groban). Has Einojuhani Rautavaara composing an opera called Vincent (from which later some themes were used in the 6th synphony - Vincentiana). Has Martin Scorsese playing his role in a Japanese flick called Yume(Dreams) directed by Akira Kurosawa. (And lot of oher things which I'm not aware of)

Theodorus Van Gogh has the pleasure of being burried next to his beloved brother Vincent Van Gogh.