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The intensity of the colors, his bravity in using colors andthe fierceness in the colors seen in the painting called “TheFarmer”, of which he painted 2 different interpretations,are unprecented examples no one dared up to that day.The thick, huge circle which describes the Sun fills the backgroundof the painting with yellow by covering the sky entirely.The land in front of the painting is covered with fuzzyblues and shivery purples. Contradicting to the reality, thesky which should have been blue is yellow, and the fieldswhich should have been yellow are blue. Still, the paintingsare attached to the reality. What makes them distant withthe reality, though, is the set of colors used by the artist, andhis way of using those colors as an expressionist method.This is the artistic reality which replaces, and eliminates, theactual reality.Cut Off His Ear Because of HallucinationsDue to his carelessness towards himself and his art, and thelack of positive stimulants in Arles, the beautiful local landscapesand people to paint portraits ran over very quickly.The free and self sufficient artists’ commune which wasthe main theme dominant in the letters he wrote and wassomething that Gauguin and himself dreamed of for a longtime, brought Gauguin close to him again. But this eventfulrelation which would later be the theme of movies aswell, badly affected the artist. The Arles tragedy which wasthe beginning of the ending began when Gauguin cameto Arles. Gauguin considered himself as an unrealised genious,and had never thought Van Gogh as the memberof the commune of artists. Van Gogh hung the painting“A Couple in the Park and the Blue Pine Tree” in the roomhe prepared for Gauguin. Although he accepted to playthe student with pleasure, their perception was irrelevantto each other and they would be unable to work togetherfor a long time. Their arguments which were firstly at theartistic level then turned into a battle of pride and honour.Van Gogh’s euthopia was soon shuttered and torn down.Gauguin had arrived in Arles on October 23, 1888, and thesituation had already terribly worsened on the 23rd of December.Gauguin spent that night in a hotel in stead of theyellow flat in order to avoid the tension. When he turnedhome in the morning, all Arles was talking about how VanGogh cut off his ear with a razor because of hallucinationshe had during the night. He had then rushed to the whorehouse in the town and given his ear wrapped in a handkerchiefto one of the prostitutes, without even stoppingthe bleeding, and gone back home to sleep as if nothinghad happened. After that, Gauguin left the town secretly.After staying in the hospital for 14 days, he painted his ownportrait with a wrapped ear. The large wrapping which fullycovers the right side of his face adds a kind of seriousnessto the strict meaning on the painter’s face. It seems as ifhe wants to protect himself from the cruel world that surroundshim with a huge, heavy cloak he is wearing. OnButters43