Chapter 145: 236 chapters, the painter who cut off his own ear

236 chapters, the painter who cut off his own ear.....

236 chapters, the painter who cut off his own ear

――――Liu Guozong

Once, a poor painter from abroad went to attend a friend's wedding. But the painter was so poor that he had no food at home, no clothes to wear when he went out, so poor that a man in his thirties was still single, so poor that he attended his friend's wedding penniless.

No money, not bringing even a gift—how could he feel embarrassed to attend his friend's wedding? The honest painter thought.

But how could he refuse the friend's invitation!

The painter hesitated repeatedly, yet with a feeling of shame, he staggered over to his friend's house.

When the painter arrived at his friend's house, laughter and chatter filled the air, very lively. But because he had no money, he was met with scorn from everyone at the wedding and was turned away at the door.

The painter was in extreme anguish.

A woman attending the wedding mocked and ridiculed the painter, saying, 'You have no money—why don't you cut off your own ear?'

Yes, why not cut off your ear if you have no money? The painter went home and really cut off his own ear.

When the painter returned to his friend's house holding his own ear, people thought he had gone mad, even demanding the police lock him up in an insane asylum......

This painter was Van Gogh. Great Van Gogh, talented Van Gogh, unparalleled Van Gogh. He was as famous as France's Napoleon and America's Washington.

His 'Sunflowers', his 'Red Vineyard', each of his paintings is a rare treasure, worth a city. Yet who would have thought that in his lifetime he was so poor and misunderstood? Was it poverty and hardship that made the painter?

Van Gogh once said, 'My wealth is my suffering and poverty.' Some say that those who regard suffering and poverty as wealth, who treasure a life of drifting and loneliness, poverty and humiliation like gold, have achieved Van Gogh, becoming an eternal symbol of the painter admonished by the ages.

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