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Vincent van Gogh
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vincent Willem van Gogh (
Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx] (
listen);
[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a major
Post-Impressionist painter. He was a
Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on
20th-century art. His output includes
portraits,
self portraits, landscapes and still lifes of cypresses,
wheat fields and
sunflowers.
Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he
completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his
life. In just over a decade he produced more than 2,100 artworks,
including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings,
sketches and prints.
Van Gogh was born to upper middle class parents and spent his early
adulthood working for a firm of art dealers. He traveled between The
Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England at
Isleworth and
Ramsgate.
He was deeply religious as a younger man and aspired to be a pastor.
From 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where
he began to sketch people from the local community. In 1885 he painted
The Potato Eaters,
considered his first major work. His palette then consisted mainly of
somber earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that
distinguished his later paintings. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and
discovered the
French Impressionists.
Later, he moved to the south of France and was influenced by the strong
sunlight he found there. His paintings grew brighter in color, and he
developed the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully
realized during his stay in
Arles in 1888.
After years of anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness,
[1][2]
he died aged 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The extent to
which his mental health affected his painting has been widely debated by
art historians. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill
health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity
and incoherence wrought through illness. His late paintings show an
artist at the height of his abilities, completely in control, and
according to art critic
Robert Hughes, "longing for concision and grace".
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