Vicent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch postimpressionist painter who has a tragically short career. His work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Holland. He was the eldest son of six children in the family, and his father was a Dutch Protestant pastor. By the age of 27 he had been a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and a preacher among the miners at Wasmes in Belgium. When he was twelve to sixteen years old, he went to a boarding school, and the next year he started working at The Hague for his uncle who was an art dealer. While working, he realized that he was more interested in literature and religion than a business. Then he worked for awhile as a preacher among poverty miners in Belgium. Vincent worked really hard for the poor since he was very much dissatisfied with the way people made money. His experience as a preacher is reflected in his first paintings of peasants and potato diggers. He became really obsessed with art when he was 27. His early drawings were dark and somber, sometimes crude, but strong and full of feeling
Under the care of a sympathetic doctor, van Gogh spent three months at Auvers. Feeling that he would no longer be able to paint van Gogh shot himself on July 27, 1890 just after completing his last painting, Crows in the Wheatfields, and died two year later. In the painting his emotional intensity is shown thought the thick brush stroke and the ominous crows, which are symbols of death. Throughout his life he made an output of about 750 paintings and 1600 drawings. In 1886 van Gogh went to Paris to live with his brother Theo van Gogh, an art dealer, and became familiar with the new art movements developing at the time. Until 1886, he had only known the Dutch painters and French landscape painters including Millet. Now influenced by the work of the impressionists and Japanese printmakers, van Gogh begam to experiment with current techniques and color. Paris opened his eyes to the senses and beauty of the visible world and taught him the pictorial language of the color patch. However, his painting continued to be under his personal emotion. In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where he painted scenes of the fields, cypress trees, peasants and rustic life
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