Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - The Bedroom October 1888 Painting
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
They include landscapes, still-life, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Not commercially successful, he struggled with severe depression and poverty, eventually leading to his suicide at age thirty-seven.
(Dutch: [ˈvɪnsənt ˈʋɪləm vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] (About this sound); 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890)
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet, and thoughtful. As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often traveling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a Protestant missionary in southern Belgium. He drifted in ill health and solitude before taking up painting in 1881, having moved back home with his parents.
His younger brother Theo supported him financially; the two kept a long correspondence by letter. His early works, mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers, contain few signs of the vivid colour that distinguished his later work. In 1886, he moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility.
As his work developed he created a new approach to still lifes and local landscapes. His paintings grew brighter as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in the South of France in 1888. During this period he broadened his subject matter to include series of olive trees, wheat fields and sunflowers.
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions and though he worried about his mental stability, he often neglected his physical health, did not eat properly and drank heavily. His friendship with Gauguin ended after a confrontation with a razor when, in a rage, he severed part of his own left ear.
He spent time in psychiatric hospitals, including a period at Saint-Rémy. After he discharged himself and moved to the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, he came under the care of the homeopathic doctor Paul Gachet. His depression persisted, and on 27 July 1890, Van Gogh is believed to have shot himself in the chest with a revolver, dying from his injuries two days later.
Van Gogh was commercially unsuccessful during his lifetime, and he was considered a madman and a failure. As he only became famous after his suicide, he came to be seen as a misunderstood genius in the public imagination. His reputation grew in the early 20th century as elements of his style came to be incorporated by the Fauves and German Expressionists.
He attained widespread critical and commercial success over the ensuing decades, and is remembered as an important but tragic painter whose troubled personality typifies the romantic ideal of the tortured artist. Today, Van Gogh’s works are among the world’s most expensive paintings to have ever sold, and his legacy is honored by a museum in his name, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world’s largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
People - Vincent Van Gogh - The siesta (after Millet) 1890 Painting
Self-portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - 01 Painting
Floral - Vincent Van Gogh - 033 Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - The Bedroom October 1888 Painting
Fields - Vincent Van Gogh - (The Starry Night) - 1889 Painting
Landscape - Vincent Van Gogh - 1888 Bottes de paille en Provence Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - The sower c. 17 - 28 June 1888 Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - chair Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Dr Paul Gachet 1890 - Painting
Seascape - Vincent Van Gogh - 1 Painting
Fields - Vincent Van Gogh - Wheat Field with Cypresses Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Three Pairs of Shoes 1886 - 1887 Painting
Fields - Vincent Van Gogh - 070 Painting
Self-portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - 1890 at Saint-Rémy Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Gauguin's chair December 1888 - 1888 Painting
Landscape - Vincent Van Gogh - 046 Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Image 053 Painting
Floral - Vincent Van Gogh - Irises pink-gree 1890 Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Oranges and Lemons with Blue Gloves 1889 Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Quinces 1888 - 1889 Painting
Floral - Vincent Van Gogh - 1887 Deux tournesols coupes Painting
Still life - Vincent Van Gogh - Shoes 1888 Painting
Landscape - Vincent Van Gogh - 1890 Une route d'Auvers apres la pluie 1 Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - Art of the Day , Prisoners Exercising (after Doré), February 1890. Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm. Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - Peasant Burning Weeds Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - Two Women on the Peat Moor October 1883 - 1883 Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - Woman Miners Carrying Coal Painting
People - Vincent Van Gogh - Women Picking Olives 1889 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - In the café - Agostina Segatori in Le Tambourin January 1887 - March 1887 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - 1889 Portrait de Madame Roulin Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Joseph-Etienne Roulin, 1889, 66.2x55 cm, Barnes fou Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Il giardiniere 1889 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Peasant Woman Binding Sheaves (after Millet) September 1889 - 1889 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Eugène Boch 1888 Painting
Fields - Vincent Van Gogh - Olive Trees 1889 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Head of a woman March 1885 - 1885 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Portrait d'Armand Roulin (Portrait of Armand Roulin) 1888 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - Portrit of Trabuc, 1889, 61x46 cm, Kunstmuseum Solo Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - L'Arlesiana (Ritratto di M.me Ginoux) 1890 Painting
Portrait - Vincent Van Gogh - The Zouave June 1888 - 1888 Painting
Seascape - Vincent Van Gogh - 1890 Berges de l'Oise a Auvers Painting