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Vincent van Gogh was a missionary in
a coal-mining village in Belgium before
finally becoming a painter at age 27.
I often wonder how van Gogh chose
painting over writing as his primary
devotion. After all, he had little money
for art supplies and his village was
slate-gray and sooty. His first paintings,
such as [I]The Potato Eaters[/I], seem made
of charcoal and tar.
Yet in his earliest letters to Theo, his
brother, van Gogh speaks with a
vibrancy that rivals anything captured
in his latter, luminous paintings from
the south of France. His voice as a
writer, philosopher and art critic–widely
printed today–seems so learned and assured.