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Van Gogh

-The Renowned Expert

By Emmanuel

This Booklet is about Van Gogh, his life works, art period and the works I personally love by Van Gogh.

Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands and grew up there. He was raised in a small village in the Brabant region, being the eldest of six children of a protestant pastor. He was a quiet, self-occupied child, spending his free time wandering the countryside to observe nature . Van Gogh originally planned to be a pastor and worked as a lay preacher in Belgium. Only after being fired did he decide to go into painting, he didn't start until he was 27 years old. His works were particularly influenced by Japanese woodblock prints.

Post-Impressionism

Van Gogh  art style was post-impressionism. This was a western painting movement in France that was an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style’s inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was used to describe the works of late 19th-century painters, such as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as impressionists. They all abandoned the style to form their own highly personal art.

Popular paintings By Van Gogh Van Gogh self-portrait, September 1889,  Musée d'Orsay Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, August 1888, Sompo Japan Museum of Art in Tokyo The Starry Night, June 1889–June 1889,  The Museum of Modern Art.

More Paintings

Café Terrace at Night, September 1888–September 16, 1888,  Kröller-Müller Museum The Potato Eaters, April 13, 1885–1885,  Van Gogh Museum Almond Blossoms, 1890,  Van Gogh Museum

My favorite works by Van Gogh are The Starry Night and The Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers. I like this due to the wonderful composition of flowers and the vibrant yellow hue prevalent in the piece. I like this work because of its vibrant colors and its circular color patterns. The beautiful yellow and blue patterns complement each other quite well.

Citations:

Wikipedia contributors. “Vincent Van Gogh.” Wikipedia, 29 Mar. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Vincent Van Gogh | Biography, Art, and Facts.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2024, www.britannica.com/biography/Vincent-van-Gogh/The-productive-decade.

“10 Things You Might Not Know About Vincent Van Gogh - Google Arts and Culture.” Google Arts & Culture, artsandculture.google.com/story/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-vincent-van-gogh/agLStrYjblBRKA.

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Post-Impressionism | Cézanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin.” Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Mar. 2024, www.britannica.com/art/Post-Impressionism.

Wikipedia contributors. “The Starry Night.” Wikipedia, 29 Oct. 2004, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Starry_Night.

Wikipedia contributors. “Van Gogh Self-portrait (1889).” Wikipedia, 27 Mar. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh_self-portrait_(1889).

Fifteen Sunflowers in a Vase (1888) by Vincent van Gogh – Artchive. (n.d.). https://www.artchive.com/artwork/fifteen-sunflowers-in-a-vase-vincent-van-gogh-1888.

Wikipedia contributors. “The Potato Eaters.” Wikipedia, 7 Sept. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Potato_Eaters.

Wikipedia contributors. “Almond Blossoms.” Wikipedia, 19 Aug. 2023, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_Blossoms.

Wikipedia contributors. “Café Terrace at Night.” Wikipedia, 9 Mar. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Terrace_at_Night.