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Vincent van Gogh was born in Zundert, a hamlet in the southern province of North Brabant, on March 30, 1853. Little is known about Vincent's childhood, save that he was a shy youngster with no noticeable creative skill. He will subsequently look back on his pleasant upbringing with fondness. No one, not even Van Gogh, knew that he possessed outstanding abilities when he decided to become an artist. His transformation from an unskilled but zealous novice to a really original master was astonishingly quick. He ultimately demonstrated an excellent sense for bright, harmonising colour effects, as well as an unerring eye for selecting basic yet memorable compositions.
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