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　　Vincent van Gogh is often remembered as the painter who cut off his ear in a fit of passion. He was a lonely man who often went without1 food insgroupsto buy paints, a man with few friends and a stormy temper.2 Van Gogh's strong emotions3 not only affected4 his life, but his paintings as well.

　　Many of van Gogh's paintings were inspired by warm, yellow sunlight because he loved how it could light up the world in different ways. His painting Sunflowers, for example, is filled with vivid5 yellows and browns. These colors give the painting a feeling of warmth and well-being. However, the sunflowers are actually dead and dying.

　　The result is a painting that mixes the warmth of life that van Gogh loved with the feelings of sadness that were all around him. It is a painting that is warm, beautiful and sad, all at the same time.

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　　●fit一时的冲动

　　●paint颜料

　　●Sunflowers《向日葵》

　　●well-being安宁