Vincent van Gogh, born in 1853, grew up in the southern Netherlands, where his father was a minister. After seven years at a commercial art firm, Van Gogh’s desire to help humanity led him to become a teacher, preacher, and missionary—yet without success. Working as a missionary among coal miners in Belgium, he had begun to draw in earnest
Vincent van Gogh 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

Landscape with Wheat Sheaves and Rising Moon. Wheat Fields is a series of dozens of paintings by Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh, borne out of his religious studies and sermons, connection to nature, appreciation of manual laborers and desire to provide a means of offering comfort to others.

VINCENT WILLEM VAN GOGH. He lived from March 30,1853 to July 29, 1890 and was born in Zundert, Netherlands (Holland). He was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who started painting late in his life. He posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.
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In an attempt to be as true to himself as possible, he depicts his sharp features, the furrow in his brow, and the striking red tones of his hair and beard. This is one of the final self-portraits he painted before his death the following year. Vincent van Gogh, Self-portrait, 1889, MusĂ©e d’Orsay, Paris. Post-Impressionism, Movement in Western painting that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of its limitations. The term was coined by Roger Fry for the works of Paul CĂ©zanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. Most of these painters first pursued Impressionism, a 8 May 1889. Van Gogh voluntarily admits himself to the St Remy asylum. The asylum is only half full and he is well treated, being allowed to set up a studio in a spare room. June 1889: Van Gogh paints Starry Night, one of his most famous works, from his room in St Remy. Van Gogh's Starry Night. 75 cm × 93 cm (29.5 in × 36.6 in) Location. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow. The Red Vineyards near Arles is an oil painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, executed on a privately primed Toile de 30 piece of burlap in early November 1888. It depicts workers in a vineyard, and it is the only painting known by name that Van

Like Rembrandt and Goya, Vincent van Gogh often used himself as a model; he produced over forty-three self-portraits, paintings or drawings in ten years. Like the old masters, he observed himself critically in a mirror.

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