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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” - Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Submitted by Michioflavia
Dec 7, 2021
“I now consider myself to be at the beginning of the beginning of making something serious.”—Vincent van Gogh, Etten, on or about December 23, 1881, to Theo van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant.
He was the eldest son of the Reverend Theodorus van Gogh (1822 - 1885) and Anna Cornelia Carbentus (1819 - 1907), whose other children were Vincent's sisters Elisabeth, Anna, and Wil, and his brother Theo and Cor. He was a quiet child with no obvious artistic talent. He himself would later look back on his happy childhood with great pleasure.
Van Gogh received a fragmentary education: one year at the village school in Zundert, two years at a boarding school in Zevenbergen, and eighteen months at a high school in Tilburg. He began working at sixteen at the Hague gallery of the French art dealers Goupil et Cie.
The Starry Night Over The Rhone, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night, ordinarily known as Starry Night Over the Rhône, is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at night. It was painted on the bank of the Rhône that was just only a one or two-minute walk from the Yellow House on the Place Lamartine, which Van Gogh was renting at the time.
Café Terrace at Night, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh
Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening. Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888.
The Starry Night, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
Vase with Daisies and Poppies, 1890 by Vincent Van Gogh
Flowers were the subject of many of van Gogh's paintings in Paris, and one of his many interests due in great part to his regard for flowers.
As he said to his brothers Theo Van Gogh and Cor Van Gogh,
"You will see that by making a habit of looking at Japanese pictures you will come to love to make up bouquets and do things with flowers all the more."
Landscape near Auvers: Wheatfields , 1888
- by Vincent van Gogh
For Landscape at Auvers in the Rain, van Gogh drew inspiration from both French and Japanese art, creating a distinctly personal style.
Originally a “peasant painter” who emulated the Dutch greats, van Gogh shifted from dark, somber hues to embracing the vibrant colors of the Post-Impressionist movement.
Landscape with Olive Trees, 1889 by Van Gogh
One of five pictures of olive orchards that Van Gogh made in November 1889.
Painted from nature but animated by Seurat-like stippling and stylized passages of broken color, these works responded to recent compositions by Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard.
"What I’ve done is a rather harsh and coarse realism beside their abstractions," Van Gogh observed, "but it will nevertheless impart a rustic note, and will smell of the soil."
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