Portrait of an Entrepreneur: Vincent van Gogh, Steve Jobs, and the Entrepreneurial Imagination

摘要

In October of 1887, after years of trials and tribulations in refining his own art, Vincent van Gogh began to form plans for an exhibition in Paris of the "new school" of art that had amassed in the city. Forcing his art dealer brother, Theo, to help him, Van Gogh's aim with the exhibition was to bring emerging modern painters together and to showcase their art in an attempt to gain approval from art critics, dealers, and fellow artists. The exhibition, held in a restaurant, was an outright disaster. It did not bring the new art world together, and hardly anyone came to see the paintings. Diners at the restaurant also paid very little attention to the paintings, including Vincent's, and the exhibition foundered after only a few weeks. The experience was emotionally draining for Vincent and was typical of his life: he produced stunning paintings that laid the groundwork for modern Western art, but in life he did not sell a single work.