Van Gogh moved from Paris to Arles, a little suburban place in southern France on the 20th of February 1888. There he spent almost fifteen months (Bronkhorst 56-7). This period of his life was his most productive one during his ten years as a painter, given that there, on average, he did more than three paintings each week, amounting to a total of some 200 paintings, over 200 drawings and watercolors, as well as about 200 letters (Bronkhorst 127). But as prolific as this period was in terms of the amount of work van Gogh did, it was rather controversial. When he first came to Arles, van Gogh had a dream of forming a studio there, a studio in which a group of painters would work together. This collaborative studio was supposed to be a so-called “studio of the South”. There is recollection that as soon as he settled in Arles, he tried to convince a number of his fellow painters, including Dodge MacKnight, Eugene Bosh, Mourier-Petersen, Emile Bernard, and even Toulouse-Lautrec to join the studio of the South, but none of them came to Arles (Ryan 9). He was so desperate for company, that he even tried to create some sort of artistic community with anyone he found locally, that were all amateur painters, not even experienced. For instance, he contacted one grocer and one magistrate. But not even they were interested in working with him (Sweetman 257). So, as his dream of the “studio of the South” crashed, van Gogh was bound to work by himself. He was sentenced to solitude, which had enormous impacts on his life. We refer to the paintings to seize these impacts, and their manifestations and consequences.