Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Painting: Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes Introduction: August 1885(1885-08)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 31.5 x 38 cm (12.4 x 15 in)
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Zeegezicht bij Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer Painting ID:: 89703
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Painting: Zeegezicht bij Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer Introduction: 1888(1888)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 64.3 cm (25.3 in). Width: 50.5 cm (19.9 in).
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Agostina Segatori in Le tambourin Painting ID:: 89704
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Painting: Agostina Segatori in Le tambourin Introduction: from 1887(1887) until 1888(1888)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 55.5 cm (21.9 in). Width: 46.5 cm (18.3 in).
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Wheat field with View of Arles Painting ID:: 89850
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 ?C 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most popular and expensive works of art.
Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide.
The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.
. Related Artists to Vincent Van Gogh : | Filip Andreevich Malyavin | Alfred Thompson Bricher | Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio | Gerard van Spaendonck | Niccolo Di ser Sozzo |