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Moving from place to place and job to job until he found his true calling as a painter, Vincent van Gogh had a short artistic career. Dying at 37, he was a painter for only ten years. He reached his “high, yellow note” as a painter during months he spent at Arles, in the South of France. Vincent spent only 444 days in Arles—the most prolific period in his brief career. He painted the changing seasons in the strong light of the Midi and dreamed of a studio in the South for himself and his fellow artists including Paul Gauguin. After the onset of his mental illness, he voluntarily committed himself to the asylum at nearby St.Remy but continued to paint when he was able. Many of van Gogh’s most cherished pictures were created during that period.