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hurting himself
Van Gogh is noted for his thick applications of paint, his ''Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers'' is quite notable for his use of paint straight from the tube with minor brush work to smooth the edges of the dollops of medium. More brilliant still was the use of this technique to create texture in a supposedly two dimensional medium, so that the paintings were part painting and part sculpture as in ''[http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm Starry Night]''.
Van Gogh is noted for his thick applications of paint, his ''Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers'' is quite notable for his use of paint straight from the tube with minor brush work to smooth the edges of the dollops of medium. More brilliant still was the use of this technique to create texture in a supposedly two dimensional medium, so that the paintings were part painting and part sculpture as in ''[http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm Starry Night]''.
After a quarrel with [[Gaugin]] (and possibly during a bout of epilepsy), he sliced off one of his ear lobes. His life ended at age 37 of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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