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35 Unusual Facts About the Infamous Painter Vincent van Gogh

Trista July 22, 2019 22 min

2. He Mainly Painted Landscapes Because He Had Trouble Finding Models

Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888. Musée d’Orsay, Paris / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain.

While no one really knows why people didn’t like to model for Vincent van Gogh, many historians believe it was because he was a troubled man. While he was well-liked in his early years, the older Van Gogh got, the more reclusive and depressed he would get. For various reasons, this made people want to keep away from him. Therefore, they weren’t often comfortable modeling for Van Gogh’s paintings. Because of this,

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2. He Mainly Painted Landscapes Because He Had Trouble Finding Models

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