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The Starry Night (1889)

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The One Person Who Likes His Work and He Hates Her

Vincent Van Gogh's sister-in-law Joanna is the one person who likes his work and he hates her. She makes a living running a boarding house and working as a translator. And then also just does a massive amount of networking across the entire art scene. Like painstakingly butters up the right people, donates key works to the right exhibitions,. Then raises the value of other ones that way. Just spends decades making it Vincent Van Gogh into a famous artist. Also benefits from the Fovist movement of the early 1900s being influenced by him.

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