prosze o sprawdzenie, czy dobrze wstawilem przyimki:
this time, when, for, as, after, until, during, after, by now, during. kazdy mogl byc uzyty tylko raz. tekst jest dlugi ale to tylkop przyimki! pomocy!!! Vincent van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. His father was a Protestant pastor. His boyhood
was happy although he was a moody and solitary child. (1) ................................ he was sixteen he joined the
art dealing firm, Goupil, where his uncle was a partner. Four years later he went to London where he had an
unhappy love affair and lost his job. Vincent remained single.
(2) ................................ working as a teacher he became a missionary among poor coal miners. He
gave away everything he owned and was dismissed (3) ............................... for taking Christ’s teaching too
literally. He lost his faith but in 1880 found his vocation as an artist. He worked (4) ................................ four
busy years producing sketches and dark watercolours of peasant life, which capture the lined and weathered
faces of his subjects. (5) ................................ now, he had been self taught, so he went to work with the
landscape artist Anton Mauve. After a row he returned to his family. (6) ................................ his stay with
them he produced his best early work:” The Potato Eaters”.
Vincent went to Paris where his brother, Theo, was working for Goupil’s. There he was deeply
influenced by the Impressionists and the simple but striking design of Japanese prints. This was the turning
point of his career. (7) ................................ he progressed he developed his own style and used brighter
colours to express his feelings.
In February 1888 he went to Arles in the south of France, searching for a brighter, “Japanese” light.
He rented a house which he painted yellow, and produced some cheerful pictures. He invited Gaugin to join
him and (8) ................................ a long delay, he came. Vincent had been looking forward to the visit and
had even decorated Gaugin’s room with paintings of sunflowers. However, they got on badly and had
arguments about art. After just one month Vincent threatened to kill his guest with a razor. Gaugin left the
same night. As a mark of despair Vincent cut off part of his ear.
(9) ................................terrified of madness, he entered the asylum of Saint-Remy de Provence.
Despite periods of mental illness, he painted two hundred pictures, including much of his famous work
including “ The Starry Night”. The self portrait with its swirling violet background helps us to understand
the torment of his soul and inner turbulence. He felt he had to leave the clinic and travelled to Auvers-sur-
Oise near Paris where Dr Gachet, a friend of the impressionists Pissarro and Cezanne, kept an eye on him.
However, his mental condition worsened and he killed himself with a gun aged just 37. Today, his paintings
sell for millions - (10) ................................ his life he sold just one.
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