誰がSien Hoornikとデートしましたか?

Sien Hoornik

Sien Hoornik

Vincent van Gogh drew and painted a series of works of his mistress Sien during their time together in the Netherlands. In particular, his drawing Sorrow is widely acknowledged as a masterwork of draftsmanship, the culmination of a long and sometimes uncertain apprenticeship in learning his craft.

Commonly called Sien Hoornik, Clasina Maria Hoornik (1850–1904) lived with van Gogh during much of his time in The Hague from 1881 to 1883. Van Gogh used Sien, a pregnant prostitute, as a model for his work and later took Sien and her daughter into his home. Van Gogh made drawings and paintings of Sien and her daughter, baby and mother over that period, which reflected the domestic life and hardships of the working poor. Their relationship was not accepted by his family or supporters, although his brother Theo did not withdraw his support over it. It did contribute however, to a split with Anton Mauve, a cousin-in-law and noted painter of the Hague School, who had introduced Van Gogh to painting as well as supporting him financially, and whom Van Gogh revered. At his brother Theo's urging, Van Gogh left Sien in 1883 to paint in Drenthe, ending the only domestic relationship he would ever have.

Sien resumed her life as a seamstress, cleaning woman and likely prostitute before marrying in 1901. On 22 November 1904, aged 54, she threw herself into the Schelde river and drowned, fulfilling a prediction she had made to Van Gogh in 1883: "what the bad moods are is still more desperate ... 'it's bound to end up with me jumping into the water.'"

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Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

フィンセント・ヴィレム・ファン・ゴッホ(オランダ語: Vincent Willem van Gogh、1853年3月30日 - 1890年7月29日)は、オランダのポスト印象派の画家。

主要作品の多くは1886年以降のフランス居住時代、特にアルル時代(1888年 - 1889年5月)とサン=レミでの療養時代(1889年5月 - 1890年5月)に制作された。感情の率直な表現、大胆な色使いで知られ、ポスト印象派を代表する画家である。フォーヴィスムやドイツ表現主義など、20世紀の美術にも大きな影響を及ぼした。

なお、オランダ人名のファン(van)はミドルネームではなく姓の一部であるため省略しない。

また、生涯独身であった。

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