{"product_id":"book-vvfb","title":"A Fire in His Soul","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe fascinating story of Vincent van Gogh’s two groundbreaking years in Paris, where he transformed himself from a provincial unknown into one of the world’s great visionary artists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVincent Van Gogh arrived in the French capital on the last day of February 1886, a month short of his thirty–third birthday. He was a man beaten down by life, half–starved, and nearly broken psychologically. He was saved by his brother Theo, who provided him with room, board, and, most crucially, emotional support while he attempted to master the difficult craft of painting. Thus far, Vincent's crude scenes of peasant life rendered in murky shades of brown and gray were both hackneyed and amateurish. Theo, a successful art dealer at a prestigious Parisian firm, dismissed them as gloomy, unappealing, and, worst of all, unmarketable.\u003cbr\u003eBy the time Vincent left Paris, almost exactly two years later, he’d transformed himself into one of the most original artists of the age, turning out works of hallucinatory intensity in vivid hues and stamped with his own distinctive personality. \u003ci\u003eA Fire in His Soul\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles this remarkable transformation. It’s a tale filled with tragedy, triumph, personal anguish, and creative fulfillment as Vincent, through sheer force of will, reinvents himself as a painter of unparalleled expressive power. \u003cbr\u003eIt was in the cafes and studios of Montmartre and in the grand galleries of the Louvre and Luxembourg, that Van Gogh received his artistic education—a crash course that at first disoriented him but ultimately sparked his creative breakthrough. Working alongside such legendary figures as Gauguin, Toulouse–Lautrec, Seurat, and Signac, he found his voice and launched an artistic revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dreamscape","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50383477276976,"sku":"BDvvfb","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/vvfb-cover.jpg?v=1765524095","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-vvfb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}