Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Almost 113 years have passed since Vincent Van Gogh put a bullet into himself, bringing to a sudden close a life of tragedy, privation, and prodigious accomplishment. At his death, only a handful of his 800 paintings and 900 drawings, all done in a period of less than ten years, had been exhibited. Only one canvas had been sold, and only one critic had written enthusiastically of his art. The remarkable letters he wrote to his brother Theo, in which he poured out his most intimate thoughts, theories and disappointments fed the legend.
Vincent Van Gogh: Self-Portrait
He was born in 1853, and it was generally believed that he killed himself when he was 37 years old. His life can be broadly divided into 2 periods: the first, a period of bitter struggles, failures and disappointments, when his difficult character, his personal views on life, and his highly original way of seeing were formed. The second, the period of fulfillment when he has mastered his art and was conscious of having done so.
Vincent Van Gogh: Wheat Field With Cypresses Saint-Remy
Van Gogh emerged the archetype of the romantic artist as the 19th century conceived him: a lonely man, working in poverty and misunderstanding so that future generations could take him to their hearts and cry, "Here is a neglected genius."
Vincent Van Gogh: Self-Portrait
No art is more immediately personal than Van Gogh's. Not only did Vincent look in the mirror again and again and paint his own features, in a sense everything he did turned into a self-portrait landscape, still life and figures into which he injected himself, inventing a new handwriting of line and color to record his intense feelings before nature. what his eye revealed was instantly blended with what he felt about his subject.
Vincent Van Gogh: Still Life with three Books
Vincent Van Gogh: Still Life with Twelve Sunflowers
Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night Over The Rhone
Vincent Van Gogh: The Sower
Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Today, Vincent Van Gogh's Paintings and Drawings draw legions to art museums and his works are the most expensive works of art.
Today, Vincent Van Gogh's Paintings and Drawings draw legions to art museums and his works are the most expensive works of art.
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Source of Photos: The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery @ http://www.vggallery.com/
Text: Van Gogh Paintings and Drawings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago
