Editing Vincent Van Gore

{{LM portrait infobox
|icon=VincentIcon.png
|image=Vincent Van Gore LM.png
|width=200px
|full_name=Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist
|age=59
|biography=Despite failing to sell a single painting in 30 years, this stubborn man refuses to let his art die.
|room=[[The Artist's Studio]]
|hp=100
|quote=Now does he grasp zee power of my creations?
}}
{{quote|Eet eez you, no? You interfere with my afterlife's work?|Vincent Van Gore|Luigi's Mansion}}
'''Vincent Van Gore, the Starving Artist''', is a [[portrait ghost]] who appears in the game ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'' and [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|its remake]]. He has teal skin, white hair, a white mustache and pointed beard, and glowing green eyes. He wears a red beret, a deep green overcoat over a red and yellow striped shirt, and often carries his palette and paintbrush. Vincent Van Gore can bring his paintings to life.<ref>{{cite|quote=I know that artists strive to give life to their canvasses, but this guy brought ghosts to life every time he picked up a brush!|author=[[Professor E. Gadd]]|date=2001|title=''Luigi's Mansion''|publisher=Nintendo|language=en}}</ref> Only his English name suggests him to be a parody of {{wp|Vincent van Gogh}}, despite having a stereotypical French accent instead of Vincent van Gogh's nationality of Dutch, but Vincent Van Gore's unlocalized name does not base him on any famous painter. His portrait number in [[Professor E. Gadd]]'s gallery is 21.

Vincent Van Gore resides in [[The Artist's Studio]], on the third floor of the mansion. When Luigi enters the room, the ghost expresses his anger at seeing his creations being vacuumed. In battle, Van Gore uses sets of seven ghosts to attack Luigi; each group consists of three (five in the [[Luigi's Mansion#PAL Differences|PAL Hidden Mansion]] and [[Luigi's Mansion (Nintendo 3DS)|remake]]) ghosts. In order, the seven following types of ghosts are [[Gold Ghost]]s, [[Purple Puncher]]s, [[Blue Twirler]]s, Red [[Grabbing Ghost]]s, Red [[Ghost Guy]]s, [[Garbage Can Ghost]]s, and [[Purple Bomber]]s. After all of the ghosts are vacuumed, Vincent Van Gore becomes very angry by the loss of his artwork. In this state, his heart is exposed and Luigi can easily suck up the spirit with his [[Poltergust 3000]]. He is eventually sucked inside the Poltergust and drops the [[Secret Altar]] [[Key]]. He is the only non-boss ghost to give away a special key. After being sucked up, standard enemy ghosts such as [[Purple Bomber]]s no longer spawn in dark hallways, though smaller ghosts like [[Bat (Luigi's Mansion series)|bats]] do continue to spawn.

==Gallery==
===''Luigi's Mansion''===
<gallery>
VincentVanGoreBronze.png|Bronze frame
VincentVanGoreSilver.png|Silver frame
VincentVanGoreGold.png|Gold frame
</gallery>

===''Luigi's Mansion'' (Nintendo 3DS)===
<gallery>
Vincent Van Gore Bronze frame LM3DS.png|Bronze frame
Vincent Van Gore Silver frame LM3DS.png|Silver frame
Vincent Van Gore Gold frame LM3DS.png|Gold frame
Vincent Van Gore Platinum frame LM3DS.png|Platinum frame
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=セニョール・プジイ
|JpnR=Senyōru Pujī
|JpnM=Spanish word ''señor'' ("mister") + possibly from「プー」(''pū'', an onomatopoeic word for "poof") and「爺」(''jī'', "old man")
|Dut=
|DutM=
|Fre=Vincent Van Gore
|Ger=Vincent Van Geight, Unersättlicher Künstler 
|GerM=Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and ''Geist'' ("ghost"); Insatiable artist
|Ita=Vincent Van Gong, Artista stravagante
|ItaM=Pun on "Vincent van Gogh" and ''gong''; The wacky artist
|Kor=
|KorR=
|KorM=
|SpaA=Leonardo DaEnte
|SpaAM=Play on "{{wp|Leonardo da Vinci}}" and ''ente'' ("entity")
|SpaE=Pablo Psicasso, el artista muerto de hambre
|SpaEM=Play on "{{wp|Pablo Picasso}}" and the prefix  ''psico-'' (as in psychotic); the Starving Artist
}}

==Trivia==
[[File:VanGorePortrait.png|frame|The image. Note the different hairstyle.]]
*A painting of a man resembling Van Gore can be found at the far end of the [[Parlor (Luigi's Mansion)|Parlor]], near the candles Luigi must extinguish. This image may depict Van Gore's appearance when he was alive.
*There is a glitch where if Luigi leaves the room without collecting the key and goes out to the [[Balcony (3F)|Balcony]], the key vanishes. If he heads back into the hallway, the key respawns, with the sound of it dropping being audible. However, if Luigi goes back outside to the Balcony once more before returning to The Artist's Studio, the key is duplicated.<ref>{{cite|author=GlitchDoctor|date=October 29, 2021|title=Luigi's Mansion Glitches and Exploits|url=youtube.com/watch?v=n-arUDijsEI|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=October 19, 2024}}</ref>

==References==
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