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Vincent van Gogh
文森特·梵高
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter.
文森特·梵高是一位荷兰画家。
He was born in Zundert, Netherlands in 1853.
他于1853年出生在荷兰的津德尔特。
Growing up, van Gogh was very poor.
在成长过程中，梵高非常贫穷。
In fact, he had to leave school to find work when he was only 15.
事实上，他才15岁时，就不得不辍学去找工作。
His job was selling art from a London gallery.
他的工作是销售伦敦一家画廊的艺术品。
He didn’t start making his own paintings until 1880.
直到1880年，他才开始自己画画。
Van Gogh painted often through the last decade of his life, but his struggles with mental illness made it difficult for him to work.
梵高在生命的最后十年里经常作画，但他与精神疾病的斗争使他很难工作。
In 1888, he cut off his own ear.
1888年，他割下了自己的耳朵。
A few months later, he decided to move into a psychiatric hospital so that he could recover.
几个月后，他决定住进精神病院，这样他就可以康复了。
While living there, he made the iconic painting The Starry Night.
在那里居住期间，他创作了标志性的画作《星月夜》。
Van Gogh’s work is very well-known today, but almost nobody knew his name when he was alive.
梵高的作品如今已经家喻户晓，但他在世时几乎没有人知道他的名字。
His paintings only became famous after his death in 1890.
直到他1890年去世后，他的画作才变得出名。
