1880年，他27岁时，发现自己重又对绘画产生了兴趣。在比利时的波里纳日的采煤村他有一份做福音传道者助手的工作，可他感受到一种艺术的冲动，这种冲动持续不断地激励着他直到十年后去世。

Although he returned to Noord Brabant and his family early in 1881, his first recognized works were set in Borinage and reflected the rural culture in which he was living and his belief in order and symmetry in both society and art. The period resulted in what became known as the Brabant canvases.

虽然在1881年初，他回到北布拉萨市班省家人身边，他最初被认可的作品却是以波里纳日为背景，所反映的是他长期生活在其中的乡村文化以及对社会与艺术秩序和对称的理念。这段时间产生了后来被称作布拉班特的绘画作品。

At this time he was becoming obsessed with artistic development. Although he was limited in practical experience, his work showed confidence and maturity from the start, no doubt influenced by the strength of his personal convictions. It was not an easy time, however, emotionally. There were tensions within the family, now that he was living back with his parents in Brabant. He was short of money and rebelling against social and academic standards.

这时他开始沉迷于艺术的发展。尽管他受到实际经验的限制，但其作品从开始就显示出信心与成熟，毫无疑问这是受到了他个人信仰力量的影响。然而从情感上说这是一段不轻松的时期。因为他回到布拉班特后与父母住在一起，家庭关系有些紧张。他手头拮据并反对当时的社会和学术准则。

Late in 1881 he moved to the Hague and established a relationship with a woman, Christine Hoornik, with whom he lived for a time. He broke with her in 1883, however, and never again established a significant intimate relationship with a woman.

1881年末，他移居海牙并与一名叫克里斯廷·胡尔尼克的女人同居了一段时间。然而1883年他们关系破裂，他也再没有与其他女人有过明显的亲密关系。

Between 1883 and 1886, at Noord Brahant again, his painting developed into characteristic dark landscapes and scenes of country life. He stressed character and expression rather than perspective and physical accuracy; he was already experimenting with impressionism.

在1883年到1886年间，还是在北布拉班特省，他的画风发展成独具匠心的晦涩的风景画和乡村生活画。他强调性格与表现而不是透视与精确。他已经在试验印象派风格了。

In 1886 Van Gogh left Holland forever and traveled via Antwerp to Paris, and to major changes in artistic style. Van Gogh’s work became more youthful in Paris. He lived with his brother, Theo, who managed the modern department of an art dealer’s. A new, more animated, painting style emerged and the impressionist tendencies of earlier work weakened somewhat.

1886年凡高永远地离开了荷兰取道安特卫普前往巴黎，他的艺术风格也发生了重大的变化。在巴黎凡高的作品变得更加青春洋溢。他和弟弟西奥住在一起，他弟弟管理着一家画店的现代画部。一种新的，更加充满活力的画风出现了，同时早期作品中的印象派倾向有所削弱。

Van Gogh developed a taste for personalized brushwork and brilliant, unmixed colours. Among his most prominent experiments with colour were a series of some 30 flower paintings, a fascination which stayed with him until his death.

凡高发展了个性化的笔法及鲜明、纯色的品位。他对色彩最出色的实验就是一系列约30幅花卉的绘画作品，对这种创作的迷恋一直伴他到生命的最后。

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