Vincent van Gogh (1853 to 1890) was a Dutch painter whose brief and largely commercially unsuccessful career, cut short by his death at thirty seven, produced a body of work, marked by bold color and energetic, visible brushwork, that became enormously influential after his death. Van Gogh began painting seriously only in his late twenties, working first in the darker palette of Dutch and Belgian peasant subjects before moving to Paris in 1886, where exposure to Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painting transformed his color and technique. In the final years of his life, spent mostly in the south of France, he produced the paintings for which he is best known today, including The Starry Night, painted in June 1889 while he was a voluntary patient at an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence following a severe mental health crisis. Van Gogh sold very few paintings during his lifetime and depended heavily on financial and emotional support from his brother Theo, whose extensive surviving correspondence with the painter is a major source for understanding his life and working methods. He died in 1890 from a gunshot wound generally understood as self-inflicted, two years before Impressionism's own exhibiting society had fully given way to the more varied styles historians group under Post-Impressionism, the movement with which Van Gogh's mature work is most closely associated.
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BirthplaceZundert, North Brabant, Netherlands 2 Death PlaceAuvers-sur-Oise, France 2 Active From Year Active To Year TrainingBriefly enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1886; otherwise largely self-taught, guided by his own study of drawing manuals and by the painter Anton Mauve. 2 FAQs
Where was Vincent van Gogh born?
Groot-Zundert, North Brabant, Netherlands
Vincent van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, a village in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
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Van Gogh applied paint in thick, visible impasto strokes, as in The Starry Night.
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Source Vincent van Gogh Letters (Van Gogh Museum and Huygens Institute), letter 534, to Theo van Gogh
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Impressionism, Movements Why this is disputed. Van Gogh's mature work is more precisely classed as Post-Impressionist, a movement that grew directly out of Impressionism and shares its founding wave here; scholars differ on how much distance to draw between the two.
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Source Sorrow (Van Gogh) (Wikipedia)
Source Starry Night Over the Rhône (Wikipedia)
Painted by Vincent van Gogh, 1888-1889.
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Fred S. Kleiner (after Helen Gardner), Cengage Learning- chapter on Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, section on Van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh (1853 to 1890) was a Dutch painter whose brief and largely commercially unsuccessful career, cut short by his death at thirty seven, produced a body of work, marked by bold color and energetic, visible brushwork, that became enormously influential after his death.
- Long-Form Articles: Why Van Gogh Is Filed Under Post-Impressionism, Not Impressionism
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1881-1890
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30 March 1853
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29 July 1890
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There are no known letters between the two artists and Van Gogh is not one of the contemporary artists discussed by Breton in his 1891 autobiography Life of an Artist. == Life == === Early years === Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
Practices: Drawing, Nuenen section
During his two-year stay in Nuenen, he completed numerous drawings and watercolours and nearly 200 oil paintings.
Associated With: Paul Gauguin, Arles (1888-89) section, Gauguin's visit (1888) subsection
When Gauguin agreed to visit Arles in 1888, Van Gogh hoped for friendship and to realise his idea of an artists' collective.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkIn Movement: Post-Impressionism, Heilbrunn Timeline: Post-ImpressionismView the Source Ukiyo-e (New World Encyclopedia)
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Contents 1 History 2 Influence on Foreign Artists 3 Making of Ukiyo-e 4 Unique Characteristics of Ukiyo-e 5 Important artists 6 References 7 External links 8 Credits During the late 1800s, the prints were exported to Europe, especially to Paris , where they became an inspiration for cubism and many impressionist painters , such as Vincent van Gogh , Claude Monet , Edgar Degas , and Gustav Klimt .
Wheatfield with Crows (Wikipedia)
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Wheatfield with Crows (Dutch: Korenveld met kraaien) is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It has been cited by several critics as one of his greatest works.
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His works had a significant influence on Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet during the wave of Japonisme that spread across Europe in the late 19th century.
Vincent van Gogh Letters (Van Gogh Museum and Huygens Institute), letter 534, to Theo van Gogh
Influenced By: Rembrandt, Letter 534, Nuenen, on or about 10 October 1885, passage on Rembrandt's The Jewish Bride and The Syndics
Rembrandt goes so deep into the mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
Associated With: Rembrandt, Letter 534, Nuenen, on or about 10 October 1885, Van Gogh's own study of Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
Rembrandt goes so deep into the mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language.
View the SourceThe Potato Eaters (Wikipedia)
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The Potato Eaters (Dutch: De Aardappeleters) is an oil painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh painted in April to May of 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The original oil sketch is at the
Almond Blossoms (Wikipedia)
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Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Saint-Rémy, southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening an
Sorrow (Van Gogh) (Wikipedia)
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Sorrow is a drawing by Vincent van Gogh, produced in 1882. The work, created two years after Van Gogh had decided to become an artist, depicts 32-year-old pregnant woman Clasina Maria Hoornik, familiarly known as Sien. The drawing
Wikipedia: The Night Cafe
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Irises (painting), Wikipedia
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Wheat Field with Cypresses, Wikipedia
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Starry Night Over the Rhône (Wikipedia)
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Café Terrace at Night (Wikipedia)
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Wheat Field with a Lark (Wikipedia)
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The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, Wikipedia
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The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, also known as Painter on His Way to Work, is an 1888 painting by Vincent van Gogh that is believed to have been destroyed during the Second World War during an air raid in Germany.
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