Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Dutch painter, Vincent Willem van Gogh, was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Wikipedia
Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands
Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
On view: Van Gogh Museum, Musée d’Orsay, MORE
Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Japonism, Pointillism, Neo-impressionism
Siblings: Theo van Gogh, Wil van Gogh, Cor van Gogh, Elisabeth Duqesne Van Gogh, Anna Cornelia van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
Education: Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1886–1886), Willem II College (1866–1868)
Quotes
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Is it Van Gogh or van Gogh?

Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890) was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Aug 14, 2017.

Key Ideas

Van Gogh’s dedication to articulating the inner spirituality of man and nature led to a fusion of style and content that resulted in dramatic, imaginative, rhythmic, and emotional canvases that convey far more than the mere appearance of the subject.
Although the source of much upset during his life, Van Gogh’s mental instability provided the frenzied source for the emotional renderings of his surroundings and imbued each image with a deeper psychological reflection and resonance.
Van Gogh’s unstable personal temperament became synonymous with the romantic image of the tortured artist. His self-destructive talent was echoed in the lives of many artists in the 20th century.
Van Gogh used an impulsive, gestural application of paint and symbolic colors to express subjective emotions. These methods and practice came to define many subsequent modern movements from Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism.

Legacy

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Clear examples of Van Gogh’s wide influence can be seen throughout art history.

The Fauves and the German Expressionists worked immediately after Van Gogh and adopted his subjective and spiritually inspired use of color.

The Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century made use of Van Gogh’s technique of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes to indicate the artist’s psychological and emotional state. Even the Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s, like Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, owe a debt to Van Gogh’s expressive palette and brushwork.

In popular culture, his life has inspired music and numerous films, including Vincente Minelli’s Lust for Life (1956), which explores Van Gogh and Gauguin’s volatile relationship. In his lifetime, Van Gogh created 900 paintings and made 1,100 drawings and sketches, but only sold one painting during his career.

With no children of his own, most of Van Gogh’s works were left to brother Theo.

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent.htm

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