Vincent Van Gogh and artworks
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh (1853—1890) was a highly influential Dutch Post-Impressionist painter best known for his uniquely expressive brushwork and use of bold, dramatic colors. Van Gogh’s early life and formative adult years were marked by mundane security; he was born into an upper-middle class family, received a rounded education, and was able to make a living off of his interest in art by working as a dealer; however, while his employment provided the opportunity for travel, it also exacerbated his lifelong struggle with his mental health. It wasn’t until 1881—nine years before his death—that he began to produce his own art. His early work would consist mostly of still lifes and character studies but as he began to travel and become acquainted with new artistic communities, his art would become brazen and bright—capturing vivid portraits of the natural world. However, while Van Gogh would correspond and receive financial support from his younger brother, Theodorus, he often found himself skirting the line of poverty. His lack of commercial and financial success with his painting would lead him to neglect his physical and mental health, resulting in increased psychotic episodes and delusions; the worst of which ended with Van Gogh severing part of his own left ear. After a lifelong battle with depression, on July 27th, 1890, he went out into a wheat field where he had recently been painting and attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Van Gogh would die from his injuries in his room at the Auberge Ravoux just two days later. In the aftermath of his death, Van Gogh’s story would—for better or worse—cement his legacy in the public imagination as the “tortured artist” and in the decades that followed his work would gain worldwide critical and commercial beyond what he could have ever imagined.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Informative. A great read although I find the great painter's life so sad.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Viewing Vincent's paintings while reading what was happening in his life at the time he was painting them makes the book so fascinating, the way the colors and even to a degree his style changes throughout the years. It's an enjoyable read.
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Vincent Van Gogh and artworks - Vincent Van Gogh
Self-Portrait, Saint-Rémy, late August 1889
Oil on canvas, 57 x 43.5 cm. Private Collection, New York
Biography
1853
Vincent Van Gogh is born on 30 March at Groot Zunder, in the south of Holland, not far from the Belgian border. Son of the pastor Théodorus Van Gogh and Anna Van Gogh-Carbentus, he is the eldest of the family’s six children. He is given the name of his brother who was stillborn on exactly the same day one year before.
1857
His brother Théodorus is born on 1 May. Van Gogh was particularly close with Théodorus throughout his life, and the two maintained a long correspondence.
1869
He is hired by his uncle in the Goupil and Co. gallery in the Hague and becomes acquainted with 20th-century English art, with the works of the Barbizon school, as well as with 17th-century Flemish painting (particularly with Rembrandt).
1872
This year marks the beginning of the correspondence with his brother Theo, which lasted throughout their lives.
1873
He joins the London branch of Goupil’s. At London he suffers his first deceptive encounter with love in the face of Ursula, his landlady’s daughter, who rejects him.
1874
In October, he is sent to the centre of Goupil’s gallery in Paris, where he lives in isolation and devotes himself to the study of the Bible.
1876
He is dismissed from Goupil’s for negligence and returns to England, where he works as a teacher and then as a vicar's assistant.
1877
Van Gogh returns to Amsterdam to prepare for his entry to the faculty of Theology.