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Theo, what am I in the eyes of most people?

Just for once, everything was going right for Vincent van Gogh.

He'd just sold his first painting and he'd been hailed by the critics as the genius of the future.

He was painting like a demon, a picture a day.

One of them, this one, Wheat field with Crows, was a revolutionary masterpiece.

It's the painting which begins modern art.

Yet, within a few weeks, the man who had achieved it had killed himself.

Now, why would he want to do that?

All his life, Vincent had this childlike faith that his art revolution would be seen by everyone.

So, was The Wheat field a cry of anguished frustration that he would never realise his vision in painting, or was it a shout of triumph that finally he'd done it?

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