38 What can be inferred from this passage?
(A) Van Gogh had become very popular before he died.
(B) Post Impressionists had the tendency of going insane.
(C) At Van Gogh’s time, Paris was the best place in the world to study drawing.
(D) The life of Van Gogh was full of misfortune and tragedy.

Vincent Van Gogh文森·威廉·梵高, one of the three great Post Impressionists后印象派, is regarded as被看成是the greatest Dutch荷蘭的painter after Rembrandt林布蘭·哈尔曼松·范·莱因.

During his short ten-year painting career, he produced more than 800 oil paintings and 700 drawings, but he sold only one of them in his lifetime.

At the early age of sixteen, Van Gogh started to learn art dealing and had worked in the Hague, London, and Paris until 1876.

Disliking art dealing, Van Gogh began to isolate himself and became a minister牧師, 牧師.

But in 1880, he was dismissed开除, 解职 by his superiors上級 and became poor. Then he began to draw.

He understood the limitations of learning by himself, so he went to Brussels to study drawing.

In 1881, he went to the Hague and produced his first masterpiece傑作；（個人）最傑出的作品, The Potato Eaters, in 1885.

He then attended an art school in Belgium. Inspired by the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens at the school, he was soon off to Paris, where he met Gauguin and found Impressionists印象派畫家, 和印象派有關 like Camille Pissarro.

Van Gogh established his personal style of painting during his two years’ stay in Paris.

Tired of city life, Van Gogh left Paris and rented a house in Arles in the south of France.

Gauguin joined him later in October, but in a quarrel on Christmas Eve, Van Gogh cut off part of his own left ear.

He was then kept in a psychiatric hospital for one year.

Then, he moved to the home of a physician-artist.

But two months later, on July 27, 1890, he shot himself and died.

So our misfortune and tragedy are not a big deal at all!