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Van Gogh

Revealing the life and times of Vincent van Gogh.

**Birth Year : 1853 Death Year : 1890 Country : Netherlands**

Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880. when he finally decided to become an artist. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.

In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists.His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art.

His friend Gauguin did join him, but it didn't end up well. Van Gogh was very hard to work with. Once, when he had a sudden burst of madness, he tried to stab Gauguin with a razor knife. Thankfully, he was stopped, but ended up cutting a part of his earlobe off. Gauguin soon left him, and he was sent to an asylum in Saint-Remy.

In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.

He created more than 2000 pieces of artwork, 900 of them were paintings and 1100 were drawings and sketches.

The expressionistic tradition was significantly, rose to the emergence with a series of paintings of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh from the last year and a half of his life. There was recorded his heightened emotional state. One of the earliest and most famous examples of Expressionism is Gogh's "The Starry Night." Whatever was cause, it cannot be denied that a great many artists of this period assumed that the chief function of art was to express their intense feelings to the world. The Belgian painter and printmaker James Ensor was such an artist - with his sense of isolation.
 * Expressionistic Movements **

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Dallas Museum of Art, Texas E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands Vincent van Gogh in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri Tate Gallery, London, UK Vincent van Gogh at the The British Museum, London Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany VAN GOGH PAINTINGS GERANIUM IN A FLOWERPOT
 * //Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries//**:

THE STARRY NIGHT

SUN FLOWERS

CAFE TERRACE AT NIGHT


 * SUCCESS (reflection questions):**

what is success? - **Success in life** would mean to have great mansions.

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