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Article: With book, movie, songs, Van Gogh's appeal is universal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 27, 2000
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PHILADELPHIA _ For nearly a century, Vincent van Gogh, painter of modern portraits, iconic sunflowers and charged landscapes, has been too big a personality to be confined to art history.
His tumultuous, tragic life and his remarkable art, produced during a feverishly creative career that lasted only 10 years, have long since achieved a mythic dimension.
In fact, the Dutch painter, who died at 37 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1890 and did more than just about anyone to foster the image of artists as tortured geniuses, inspires the kind of adulation usually reserved for rock stars, film idols or dead princesses.
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