Monday, March 1, 2010

Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue | The Art Newspaper

Why Van Gogh cut his ear: new clue The Art Newspaper
Okay, here is another version of the classic Van Gogh "ear" theory. There are many therories on what actually happended.
Did he: cut it off and send it to a girl he was in love with. Did the painter, Gauguin slice it off in a duelling match. This week, I want you to be Van Gogh's P.R. guy and make up a publicity response in order to counteract any negative P.R. from the incedent. Your post must be 3 sentences long.
Have fun, Be creative.
Mr. Von

29 comments:

  1. have you heard of van gogh's ear getting cut off. there are lots of stories to how it happend.... this is the real one. one day he was walking around on a golf coarse listening to the birds. then all of a sudden he felt some pain on the left side of his head. he felt his head and saw that his hand was bloody and his ear was missing. then all of a sudden a sniper stood up on top of a hill holding his gun in the air. the sniper was trying to shoot him in the head but missed and got his ear. THE END

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  2. Vincent today was found with only half of his left ear. I was shocked and asked him how it had happened. He explained to me that he had been looking on a shelf, when from above, a knife fell down and sliced his ear right off. He visited a doctor that very same day and the wound was bandaged. The doctors still aren't quite sure if it will grow back.

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  3. Van Gogh's wanted to draw his ear and was getting upset with the mirrors when he tried to place them so he could see his whole ear and draw at the same time. He then punched the mirror soooo hard it shattered. He took a piece of the broken glass and sliced his ear off. He then drew it and was pretty satisfied with the picture! Finally he realized he should wrap up his head to stop the bleeding.

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  4. Today Vincent Van Gogh suffered a terrible injury. He was in his home painting when someone broke in. The thief was looking for money and didn't expect to find Van Gogh there. A sword fight ensued and Van Gogh was able to stab the thief in the chest, killing him, but not before his ear was sliced off. It is a terrible tragedy, but friends and family of the victim are just glad that no fatal injuries occured to Vincent.

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  5. Today, in London, a tradgic story has happened to Van Gogh. He was sitting at his house painting what was supposed to be his so called, most brilliant painting of all! then, a bomb was thrown threw the window! BAM! Van Gogh was shot across the room. A man jumped in afterwards and grabbed the painting and off he went back out the wondow. Van Gogh went to hold his head and sigh of relief that he was okay. Then, he felt this sudden urge of pain coming from the left side of his head. His ear was gone!! it must have flew off when the bomb blew up! :( Poor Vincent.
    THE END

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  6. Something horrific happened to Vincent Van Gogh today. He was painting his magical fantasy painting when all of the sudden, the unicorn jumped out of his painting and attacked him. Van Gogh wrestled around with him, he didnt know what the unicorn wanted when all of the sudden the unicorn bit his ear off. Van Gogh was terrified.

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  7. Today the famous artist, Vincent Van Gogh's ear was fpund outside a brawthal. It seems that Van Gogh got into a fight with a she-man after fouding out that he wasnt really a she. The she-man and Van Gogh were fighting over money Van Gogh owed the she-man, when the she-man pulled out a huge kitchen knife and sliced Van Gogh's ear right off for payment. We have checked and Van Gogh will be fine.

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  8. Todays horrific story; Van Gogh was enjoying his time and painting a pretty picture of a dog. Next to the picture of the dog was fairy dust and the fairy dust fell over some how and the dog came alive. The dog jumped off the paper and attacked Van gogh. Van Gogh tryed to fight back. Mean while the dog took Van Goghs ear and ran away with it.And thats the story of how Van Gogh lost his ear.
    THE END(:

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  9. Van Gogh has just informed me to release his story to the public. He said that he would like to stop the confusion of the event. First off, it's none of the proposed theories you think. A little while back he decided to get into inventing instead of artistry. He wanted to perfect DaVinci's flying machine. After he had it built he went and tried, and it worked! But there were bird hunters out, and they saw him as a bird. They fired continuously at him, and one the shots took off his ear. That's his story.

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  10. Top story: Van Gogh's ear was chopped off. He was painting a picture of a lumberjack out in the woods. He messed up on the lumberjack's ear and the lumberjack was very upset. He picked up his ax and chopped off Van Gogh's ear.Van Gogh was surprisingly pleased with this. In some way it gave inspiration to his next master piece. He wrapped up his ear and continued painting.

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  11. In today's news, local resident, Vincent Van Gogh, has been seen walking around with only one ear! Many people have asked...but he gives no answers. I eventually convinced him (with MUCH persuasion) to tell me. He said he was just too embarrassed to tell anyone, but he's tired of people asking. He told me that he was getting a little bored of painting all the time, and decided to switch to something a bit different...mosaic pictures. He was obviously working with very sharp peices of glass. Apparently, he got frustrated and he threw a bit of a temper tantrum, whcih ended with him slicing his ear off w/ a large peice of glass...oops! Oh well...it happens to the best of us...right?

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  12. BREAKING NEWS!!!
    We know all the stories that have been floating around about Van Gogh's ear. Well we have the truth, he got in a bar fight with some guy about his woman. Van Gogh threw the first punch. Then the man got his beer bottle broke it on the table and sliced off his ear.
    Forensic evidence shows the bottle marking on his ear that was found on the floor.

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  13. today van gogh was in one of those moods were he didnt care about anything but painting. so as the day went on his love came up behind him and cut his ear off with no warning because see never saw him and wanted a peice of van gogh with at all times. so thats how he lost his ear

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  14. Something horrible happened to the artist Van Gogh today. He lost his hearing in his left ear, and he got very mad. So after a few hours of thinking about it he decided to cut off his own ear because he said there was no point of having it anymore.

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  15. Horrific events today; Vincent Van Gogh has his ear shot off! he was sitting at home eating some pancakes when a man in black ran in and demanded the pancakes from him. but these were no ordinary pancakes. they were the best that vincent had ever tasted. soooo he refused and was shot. the man ran off with vincents pancakes and even his syrup. it was a very unfortunate event.

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  16. Something horrible happened to Van Gogh today, his ear was cut off while making paper snowflakes with kindergardeners. A little boy named Jake accidentaly slipped with his scisors in his hands and cuz off his ear. Van Gogh was pissed but he got over it. now his only problem is that he cant here from that side of his head.

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  17. Here is what really happened. Vincent Van Gogh recently went def in his left ear so he decided he didnt need a device on the outside of his ear to funnel sound into it. He just cut it off. Its common sense. Quit making up stories about what happened.
    Sincerly, Derek Miner -P.R. Vincent Van Gogh

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  18. In today's News: Vincent Van Gogh ear was cut-off by none other than himself! He was painting a masterpiece that was said to be his worst ever! He got so mad while painting it, he lifted up a stack of his papers and drawings of the painting to be and threw them. He didn't realize the paper slit his ear a little bit until a drop of blood dropped on his painting. He looked in a mirror saw his ear was beyond repair and cut it off himself and wrapped it up. This is the real story!

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  19. NEW FASHION TREND!
    the great artist, Vincent Van Gogh just cut his ear off. something totally new stepped in our world of style, fashion and glamour..
    peole in china already started to cut their one ear off too, to demonstrate how they think about Van Gogh and his art.
    We interwied some people and they said : " this is the most rebellian thing I ever did and it is just the new style to go with just one earing.!"

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  20. Van Gogh was sitting there one night he was thinking really hard and then his ear started to bleed.... So then he stuffed kleenx in his ear. Then he went to bed then woke up the next morning and his ear was gone!!!

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  21. Breaking news! Van Gogh was just found outside a bar with NO EAR turns out a horrific bar fight took Van Gogh's ear. He says the last thing he remembers of the night is a man biting his ear, then he woke up on a bench outside the Drunken Clam this morning. We talked to him and he claimed, "I will never be doing that again..."

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  22. Vincent Van Gogh got his ear bitten off by Mike Tyson. The boxer has struck again. How long will it take to put the king of ear biting behind bars? Also, the ear is being auctioned off at the starting price of $40,000.

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  23. van gogh thought it would be just another ordinary visit to the zoo.... BUT HE WAS WRONG!! as he stood next to the elephant exibit with a hot and tasty bag of peatnuts he noticed somehting strange. the elephants were approaching him at an alarming pace!! before he could turn to run one of the elephants grabbed him with it's trunk while another elephant stole his bag of hot and tasty peanuts. van gouh fell to the ground as the elphants stampeded toward the peanuts. in the middle of all this commotion a baby elephant stepped on van gouh's ear!!!!! and they all lived happilly ever after......(the elephants)

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  24. This just in Vincent Van Gogh has finally confessed to what happened on that fateful evening that he lost his favorite ear. It turns out he was deeply concentrated on his art after 5 hours of working on one strand of hair in his painting. He said that he just couldn't get anything done anymore due to his nagging love. She would just stand at his left side critiquing him and occasionally abusing him, so to finally get something done he roemoved his ear and threw it at her, more as a symbol that he didn't want to hear her anymore.

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  25. one day Van Gogh went to the park he was playing the slides and then swinging on the swings. after he went running in a cornfield and fell on the ground. i big spider came a bit his ear. his ear swelled up and he didnt want to go to the doc. cuz he was ashamed. after two weeks his ear fell off.

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  26. Everybody is making a big stink over Vinncent Van Gogh cutting off his ear. Even to this day everybody is trying to figure out why any sane person would mutilate themselves. All these different stories have been thought up as reasons that could have been. But the thing is none of them are true. He wasn't in a rage, he wasn't drunk, he wasn't doing it to prove his love for Johana, and he certainly didn't loose it in a battle with a magistical unicorn! He did it because he was a nobody. Nobody cared about him and only a small handful loved him. He didn't want to wait until after death to become something, so he cut off his ear for publicity. I mean it makes sense right? Cause whenever I hear the famous name "Vincent Van Gogh" honestly a pretty picture isn't the first thing that comes to my mind...!

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  27. THIS JUST IN: Police arrived at Van Gogh's house after a neighbor heard a mysterious scream coming form Vinncent's room. When police showed up, they found Vinncent in his bathroom with an ear in one hand, and a bloody razor in the other. Vinncent explained that he was trying a new style, and decided to shave off his sideburns when he doze off. He woke up to a warm sensation on the side of his face, he then noticed his ear was cut off, so he screamed.

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  28. The incident regarding Mister Van Gogh has been widely blown out of proportion. The painter was simply using his paint pallate to scratch his ear, but coughed and accidentally cut it clean off. There was no love interest, no duel; it was simply the act of scratching gone horribly wrong. The ear is being examined to see if reattachment is possible, but there there is no definite answer yet. Mister Van Gogh and his family are hoping for a speedy recovery.

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  29. Vincent truely lost his ear in an unfortunate fencing accident with his good ol friend hubert. He then sent it to his girlfriend because she was a nurse. he wanted her to freeze it so he could have her sew it back on

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