Vincent van Gogh lived in Tilburg for about a year and a half (September 3, 1866 - March 19, 1868) studying at the Koning Willem II College where he received extensive drawing lessons.

Paul de Graaf took his first steps in art when he was traveling around the United States in 2008. In San Diego he met the Freedom Fighters art collective. They took him into their world and taught him their way of making art. From this basis Paul started working in the Netherlands. In his works on canvas he searches for the interface between punk, graffiti and modern art, he looks for the image in chaos.