According to Wikipedia:
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx] (
listen);[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch and post-Impressionist painter 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.
He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; most of
his best-known works were completed 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. He spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, and 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 sketched people from the local community, and in 1885 painted his first major work The Potato Eaters. 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 region's strong sunlight. 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, art historians 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".[3]
Below is what is believed to be his first self portrait.
The placard at the museum mentions that this style was more inline with the Master's, like Rembrandt. However, Van Gogh is also now working with complimentary colors. This is much more in line with the Parisian avant-garde .
Here you can see the backdrop blending into his beard and mustache and even into his jacket.
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx] (
listen);[note 1] 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch and post-Impressionist painter 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.
He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; most of
his best-known works were completed 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. He spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, and 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 sketched people from the local community, and in 1885 painted his first major work The Potato Eaters. 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 region's strong sunlight. 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, art historians 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".[3]
Below is what is believed to be his first self portrait.
The placard at the museum mentions that this style was more inline with the Master's, like Rembrandt. However, Van Gogh is also now working with complimentary colors. This is much more in line with the Parisian avant-garde .
Here you can see the backdrop blending into his beard and mustache and even into his jacket.
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