Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent van Gogh

• From Sadness to Joy

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Vincent van Gogh

• 1853 1890
• Dutch
• Post-impressionism
• Influenced by Millet, Rubens,and Japanese
  artists.
• Favorite color- yellow.
• Subjects-nature and humanity.

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The Early Years

• Vincent van Gogh was born the son of a preacher
  in Holland in 1853. The oldest of five children,
  Vincent was especially close to his brother Theo.
  His letters to Theo throughout his life give
  valuable insight into his thoughts and feelings.
• When he was 16, Vincent worked in
• the art dealership business.

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Early Influences

• Vincent was influenced by the great Dutch
• masters of the 17th century, especially
• Rembrandt. Themes of simplicity and
• honesty and the moral significance of art
• recur in Dutch painting. Rembrandt portrayed
• a profound humanity and captured both
• drama and tenderness through the interplay
• of light and shadow.

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Vincents Humanity

• Vincent worked as a lay preacher in one of
  Belgiums poorest areas. He gave the miners much
  of his belongings. He was influenced by other
  artists, poets, and sculptors protests of the
  horrible working conditions there.
• Vincent tried to share the suffering of the
  miners but was labeled as mad by others.

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Art Training

• The Hague School, 1880
• The Academy of Fine Arts, 1885 (Antwerp)
• Cormon Studio, 1886-1888 (Paris)- Monet, Russell,
  Rodin, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec
• Arles, France --Yellow House artist colony
  (House of Friends)

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Vincents Style

• Vincent believed colors should be bright and
  intense, full of expressive colors and lively.
• He believed color would continue to sing its own
  praise and shine in its own glory.
• Paintings are often chromatic, often bright
  greens and yellows (his favorite color).
• These artistic experiments were the basis for
  Fauvism and Expressionism of the 20th century.
• Vincent loved nature and felt plants and trees
  should be drawn as if they were human beings. He
  also said that People are the root of
  everything.

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Vincents Dark Days

• Vincent had a difficult adolescence. He felt
  guilty because his older brother, also named
  Vincent, died at birth. He did not understand why
  he lived and his brother did not.
• He often felt restless and even cut off part of
  his ear in a fit of rage over a disagreement with
  artist Gaugin.
• In 1889, Vincent was taken to a hospital in
  Arles, suffering from delusions. He was admitted
  to an asylum in Saint-Remy where he painted that
  countryside. On July 23, 1890, Vincent wrote,
  This misery will never end. On July 27 he went
  into the fields, shot himself and died in two
  days.

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Van Goghs Influence

• Vincents works caused a sensation in the
  world of art in the early 20th century. As
  Impressionism became increasingly sterile,
  Vincents fluid shapes and vibrant colors brought
  life and soul to art. Expressionism eventually
  developed from Vincents choice to express rather
  than represent subjects. Vincents legacy was a
  mediation between art and life.

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Masterpieces

• The Potato Eaters 1885
• Le Tambourin 1887
• Self-Portrait 1889
• The White Orchard 1888
• Portrait of Milliet 1888
• Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear 1889

• Vincents Bedroom 1889
• Portrait of Joseph Roulin 1888
• Night Café 1888
• The Sower 1888
• Still Life Vase with Fourteen sunflowers 1889

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Masterpieces

• Road with Cypress and Star 1889
• Still Life with Irises 1889
• Starry Night 1889
• The Church at Auvers 1890
• Portrait of Doctor Gachet 1890

• View of Auvers 1890
• Wheat Field with Crows 1890