Van Gogh Puzzle

Discover with us the Van Gogh puzzles and enter the wonderful world of modern art with the colors and expressive power of the great Dutch master. Indeed, through Van Gogh puzzles you can explore the art world of one of the greatest artists in history.

The puzzle is one of the most fun and fascinating ways to discover art piece by piece. The works of this great master are considered the foundation of modern art and the guidelines of the expressionist movements of the twentieth century.
In Van Gogh’s brushstrokes, one can find the force of emotions and the grandeur of landscapes, which become windows into the painter’s soul.

Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot Zundert, Netherlands, on March 30, 1853, into a modest family in which his father was a strict Protestant pastor.
His studies were very irregular and, before 1880, he unsuccessfully tried to become a preacher himself.

In 1876 he resigned from a French art dealership where he worked, and in 1878, as a preacher, shared the miserable life of the miners of the Borinage, a mining region in southern Belgium.
Removed by his superiors for excessive zeal (he lived too poorly among the poor, arousing suspicion and conflict), in 1880 he went to Brussels.
There he studied anatomy for a while and occasionally attended perspective drawing courses.

In The Hague, he took painting lessons. In 1883 he was in Brabant, where he painted the harsh life of the peasants.

Having reached his brother Theo in Paris in March 1886, he studied in Fernand Cormon’s studio where he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, one of the few contemporary artists who truly understood him, and then also came into contact with Monet, Degas, Renoir, Seurat, and other Impressionists and Divisionists.

In 1887, he began a friendship with Gauguin, which tragically ended in December 1888, after only two months of cohabitation in Arles, where Van Gogh, struggling with the stresses of the city, went to live in the famous “Yellow House”.

In the southern town, dreaming of an artist community, Vincent had invited his Parisian friend.

The differing artistic opinions of the two men, however, were the subject of constant quarrels, culminating in a self-punishing act by Van Gogh who cut off part of his ear.

From the beginning of 1889, Vincent was repeatedly hospitalized for what were then considered excesses of madness, and in May of that year he voluntarily admitted himself to a mental institution in Saint-Rémy de Provence.

The awareness of being misunderstood, the anxiety to understand himself and find ways to express his inner world, the search for a well-defined human and professional role, followed by numerous failures, rejections, and isolation, first plunged him into a deep depression.

Later, it led him to a form of mental alienation that caused severe crises during which he lost all contact with reality and which, further worsening, led him to suicide in a July day of 1890.

Indeed, on July 27, 1890, without anyone noticing the unfolding events, Vincent shot himself in the heart; he died two days later, in the desperate arms of Theo who had rushed from Paris.

If a painting of peasants smells of bacon, smoke, vapors… it’s fine, it’s not unhealthy

In July 1880, to thank him for a gift of twenty francs, Vincent van Gogh wrote these words to his brother Theo, who was four years younger

I must now bore you with some abstract things, but I wish you would listen patiently.
A bird locked in a cage in spring knows perfectly well that there is something it is meant for, knows very well that there is something to do, but cannot do it; what is it? It does not remember well, has vague ideas, and tells itself: “Others build the nest and raise their young” and it bangs its head against the cage bars. And the cage remains closed, and it is maddened with grief…

The subject of the letter is particularly important as it allows us to better understand the personality of Vincent, a solitary and instinctive man, with strong and violent feelings, who perhaps only his brother Theo could always understand and love with a sweet and unconditional love. It was always Theo who provided that affectionate moral support that Vincent sought in vain from friends and the various women he was involved with, always in short and troubled relationships.

Even in moments of calm, often only apparent, Vincent continued to brood over his condition (which he rebelled against), but no one could notice, just as no one understood the caged bird’s craving for freedom, which seemed calm and often chirping:

Ah, dear freedom, to be a bird like the others!