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Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter (–)
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Vincent Willem van Gogh[note 1] (Dutch:[ˈvɪnsɛntˈʋɪləɱvɑŋˈɣɔx]ⓘ;[note 2] 30 March &#;&#; 29 July ) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
In just over a decade, he created approximately 2, artworks, including around oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art.
Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age [5] During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold.
Born into an upper-middle-class family, Van Gogh drew as a child and was serious, quiet and thoughtful, but showed signs of mental instability.
As a young man, he worked as an art dealer, often travelling, but became depressed after he was transferred to London. He turned to religion and spent time as a missionary in southern Belgium. Later he drifted into ill-health and solitude. He was keenly aware of modernist trends in art and, while back with his parents, took up painting in His younger brother, Theo, supported him financially, and the two of them maintained a long correspondence.
Van Gogh's early works consist of mostly still lifes and depictions of peasant labourers. In , he moved to Paris, where he met members of the artistic avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were seeking new paths beyond Impressionism. Frustrated in Paris and inspired by a growing spirit of artistic change and collaboration, in February Van Gogh moved to Arles in southern France to establish an artistic retreat and commune.
Once there, his paintings grew brighter and he turned his attention to the natural world, depicting local olive groves, wheat fields and sunflowers. Van Gogh invited Gauguin to join him in Arles and eagerly anticipated Gauguin's arrival in late
Van Gogh suffered from psychotic episodes and delusions. He worried about his mental stability, and 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 mutilated his left ear. Van Gogh 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 29 July Van Gogh died from his injuries after shooting himself in the chest with a revolver.
Van Gogh's work began to attract critical artistic attention in the last year of his life. After his death, his art and life story captured public imagination as an emblem of misunderstood genius, due in large part to the efforts of his widowed sister-in-law Johanna van Gogh-Bonger.[6] His bold use of colour, expressive line and thick application of paint inspired avant-garde artistic groups like the Fauves and German Expressionists in the early 20th century.
Van Gogh's work gained widespread critical and commercial success in the following decades, and he has become a lasting icon of the romantic ideal of the tortured artist.
Artist biography van gogh paintings Early Training. It is one of his most well known images. The move to Provence began as a plan for a new artist's community in Arles as alternative to Paris and came at a critical point in each of the artists' careers. As he famously said, "real painters do not paint things as they areToday, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings ever sold. His legacy is celebrated by the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which holds the world's largest collection of his paintings and drawings.
Letters
See also: The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The most comprehensive primary source on Van Gogh is his correspondence with his younger brother, Theo.
Their lifelong friendship, and most of what is known of Vincent's thoughts and theories of art, are recorded in the hundreds of letters they exchanged from until Theo van Gogh was an art dealer and provided his brother with financial and emotional support as well as access to influential people on the contemporary art scene.
Theo kept all of Vincent's letters to him; but Vincent kept only a few of the letters he received.
After both had died, Theo's widow Jo Bonger-van Gogh arranged for the publication of some of their letters. A few appeared in and ; the majority were published in Vincent's letters are eloquent and expressive, have been described as having a "diary-like intimacy", and read in parts like autobiography. Translator Arnold Pomerans wrote that their publication adds a "fresh dimension to the understanding of Van Gogh's artistic achievement, an understanding granted to us by virtually no other painter".
There are more than letters from Vincent to Theo and around 40 from Theo to Vincent.
There are 22 to his sister Wil, 58 to the painter Anthon van Rappard, 22 to Émile Bernard as well as individual letters to Paul Signac, Paul Gauguin, and the critic Albert Aurier. Some are illustrated with sketches.
Van gogh museum In popular culture, his life has inspired music and numerous films, including Vincente Minelli's Lust for Life , which explores Van Gogh and Gauguin's volatile relationship. He would paint at the yellow house during the day and return to the hospital at night. His ministry among the miners led him to identify deeply with the workers and their families. In order to prepare for his new career, Van Gogh went to Brussels to study at the academy, but left after only nine months.Many are undated, but art historians have been able to place most in chronological order. Problems in transcription and dating remain, mainly with those posted from Arles. While there, Vincent wrote around letters in Dutch, French, and English. There is a gap in the record when he lived in Paris as the brothers lived together and had no need to correspond.
The highly paid contemporary artist Jules Breton was frequently mentioned in Vincent's letters.
In letters to Theo, Vincent mentions he saw Breton, discusses the Breton paintings he saw at a Salon, and discusses sending one of Breton's books but only on condition that it be returned.[17][18] In a March letter to Rappard he discusses one of Breton's poems that had inspired one of his paintings.[19] In he describes Breton's famous work The Song of the Lark as being "fine".[20] In March , roughly midway between these letters, Van Gogh set out on an kilometre trip on foot to meet Breton in the village of Courrières; he was intimidated by Breton's success and the high wall around his estate, and returned without making his presence known.
[21][22][23] It appears Breton was unaware of Van Gogh or his attempted visit. There are no known letters between the two artists and Van Gogh is not one of the contemporary artists discussed by Breton in his autobiography Life of an Artist.
Life
See also: Vincent van Gogh chronology
Early years
See also: Van Gogh's family in his art
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March in Groot-Zundert, in the predominantly Catholic province of North Brabant in the Netherlands.
He was the oldest surviving child of Theodorus van Gogh (–), a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and his wife, Anna Cornelia Carbentus (–). Van Gogh was given the name of his grandfather and of a brother stillborn exactly a year before his birth.[note 3] His grandfather, Vincent (–), was a prominent art dealer and a theology graduate from the University of Leiden in This Vincent had six sons, three of whom became art dealers, and may have been named after his great-uncle, a sculptor (–).
Van Gogh's mother came from a prosperous family in The Hague.
His father was the youngest son of a minister. The two met when Anna's younger sister, Cornelia, married Theodorus's older brother Vincent (Cent). Van Gogh's parents married in May and moved to Zundert. His brother Theo was born on 1 May There was another brother, Cor, and three sisters: Elisabeth, Anna, and Willemina (known as "Wil"). In later life, Van Gogh remained in touch only with Willemina and Theo.
Theodorus's salary as a minister was modest, but the Church also supplied the family with a house, a maid, two cooks, a gardener, a carriage and horse; his mother Anna instilled in the children a duty to uphold the family's high social position.
Van Gogh was a serious and thoughtful child. He was taught at home by his mother and a governess, and in , was sent to the village school.
In , he was placed in a boarding school at Zevenbergen, where he felt abandoned, and he campaigned to come home. Instead, in , his parents sent him to the middle school in Tilburg, where he was also deeply unhappy. His interest in art began at a young age.
He was encouraged to draw as a child by his mother, and his early drawings are expressive, but do not approach the intensity of his later nt Cornelis Huijsmans, who had been a successful artist in Paris, taught the students at Tilburg. His philosophy was to reject technique in favour of capturing the impressions of things, particularly nature or common objects.
Van Gogh's profound unhappiness seems to have overshadowed the lessons, which had little effect. In March , he abruptly returned home. He later wrote that his youth was "austere and cold, and sterile".
In July , Van Gogh's uncle Cent obtained a position for him at the art dealers Goupil & Cie in The Hague. After completing his training in , he was transferred to Goupil's London branch on Southampton Street, and took lodgings at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell.
This was a happy time for Van Gogh; he was successful at work and, at 20, was earning more than his father. Theo's wife, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, later remarked that this was the best year of Vincent's life. He became infatuated with his landlady's daughter, Eugénie Loyer, but she rejected him after he confessed his feelings; she was secretly engaged to a former lodger.
He grew more isolated and religiously fervent. His father and uncle arranged a transfer to Paris in , where he became resentful of issues such as the degree to which the art dealers commodified art, and he was dismissed a year later.
In April , he returned to England to take unpaid work as a supply teacher in a small boarding school in Ramsgate.
When the proprietor moved to Isleworth in Middlesex, Van Gogh went with him. The arrangement was not successful; he left to become a Methodist minister's assistant. His parents had meanwhile moved to Etten; in he returned home at Christmas for six months and took work at a bookshop in Dordrecht. He was unhappy in the position, and spent his time doodling or translating passages from the Bible into English, French, and German.
He immersed himself in Christianity and became increasingly pious and monastic. According to his flatmate of the time, Paulus van Görlitz, Van Gogh ate frugally, avoiding meat.
To support his religious conviction and his desire to become a pastor, in , the family sent him to live with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian, in Amsterdam.[49] Van Gogh prepared for the University of Amsterdamtheology entrance examination; he failed the exam and left his uncle's house in July He undertook, but also failed, a three-month course at a Protestant missionary school in Laken, near Brussels.
In January , he took up a post as a missionary at Petit-Wasmes in the working class, coal-mining district of Borinage in Belgium.
To show support for his impoverished congregation, he gave up his comfortable lodgings at a bakery to a homeless person and moved to a small hut, where he slept on straw. His humble living conditions did not endear him to church authorities, who dismissed him for "undermining the dignity of the priesthood". He then walked the 75 kilometres (47&#;mi) to Brussels, returned briefly to Cuesmes in the Borinage, but he gave in to pressure from his parents to return home to Etten.
He stayed there until around March ,[note 4] which caused concern and frustration for his parents. His father was especially frustrated and advised that his son be committed to the lunatic asylum in Geel.[note 5]
Van Gogh returned to Cuesmes in August , where he lodged with a miner until October.
He became interested in the people and scenes around him, and he recorded them in drawings after Theo's suggestion that he take up art in earnest. He travelled to Brussels later in the year, to follow Theo's recommendation that he study with the Dutch artist Willem Roelofs, who persuaded him – in spite of his dislike of formal schools of art – to attend the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts.
He registered at the Académie in November , where he studied anatomy and the standard rules of modelling and perspective.
Etten, Drenthe and The Hague
See also: Early works of Vincent van Gogh
Van Gogh returned to Etten in April for an extended stay with his parents. He continued to draw, often using his neighbours as subjects.
In August , his recently widowed cousin, Cornelia "Kee" Vos-Stricker, daughter of his mother's older sister Willemina and Johannes Stricker, arrived for a visit. He was thrilled and took long walks with her. Kee was seven years older than he was and had an eight-year-old son. Van Gogh surprised everyone by declaring his love to her and proposing marriage.
She refused with the words "No, nay, never" ("nooit, neen, nimmer"). After Kee returned to Amsterdam, Van Gogh went to The Hague to try to sell paintings and to meet with his second cousin, Anton Mauve. Mauve was the successful artist Van Gogh longed to be. Mauve invited him to return in a few months and suggested he spend the intervening time working in charcoal and pastels; Van Gogh returned to Etten and followed this advice.
Late in November , Van Gogh wrote a letter to Johannes Stricker, one which he described to Theo as an attack.
Within days he left for Amsterdam. Kee would not meet him, and her parents wrote that his "persistence is disgusting". In despair, he held his left hand in the flame of a lamp, with the words: "Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame." He did not recall the event well, but later assumed that his uncle had blown out the flame.
Kee's father made it clear that her refusal should be heeded and that the two would not marry, largely because of Van Gogh's inability to support himself.
Mauve took Van Gogh on as a student and introduced him to watercolour, which he worked on for the next month before returning home for Christmas. He quarrelled with his father, refusing to attend church, and left for The Hague.[note 6] In January , Mauve introduced him to painting in oil and lent him money to set up a studio.
Within a month Van Gogh and Mauve fell out, possibly over the viability of drawing from plaster casts. Van Gogh could only afford to hire people from the street as models, a practice of which Mauve seems to have disapproved. In June, Van Gogh suffered a bout of gonorrhoea and spent three weeks in hospital. Soon after, he first painted in oils, bought with money borrowed from Theo.
He liked the medium, and he spread the paint liberally, scraping from the canvas and working back with the brush.
Artist biography van gogh for kids In , he abandoned his studies and never successfully returned to formal schooling. Similar Art and Related Pages. When she rejected his marriage proposal, van Gogh suffered a breakdown. Van Gogh Self Portrait.He wrote that he was surprised at how good the results were.
By March , Mauve appeared to have gone cold towards Van Gogh, and stopped replying to his letters. He had learned of Van Gogh's new domestic arrangement with an alcoholic prostitute, Clasina Maria "Sien" Hoornik (–), and her young daughter.[80] Van Gogh had met Sien towards the end of January , when she had a five-year-old daughter and was pregnant.
She had previously borne two children who died, but Van Gogh was unaware of this.[81] On 2 July, she gave birth to a baby boy, Willem. When Van Gogh's father discovered the details of their relationship, he put pressure on his son to abandon Sien and her two children. Vincent at first defied him,[83] and considered moving the family out of the city, but in late , he left Sien and the children.
Poverty may have pushed Sien back into prostitution; the home became less happy and Van Gogh may have felt family life was irreconcilable with his artistic development.
Sien gave her daughter to her mother and baby Willem to her brother. Willem remembered visiting Rotterdam when he was about 12, when an uncle tried to persuade Sien to marry to legitimise the child. He believed Van Gogh was his father, but the timing of his birth makes this unlikely. Sien drowned herself in the River Scheldt in
In September , Van Gogh moved to Drenthe in the northern Netherlands.
In December driven by loneliness, he went to live with his parents, then in Nuenen, North Brabant.
Emerging artist
Nuenen and Antwerp (–)
See also: Peasant Character Studies (Van Gogh series), Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands), and List of drawings by Vincent van Gogh
In Nuenen, Van Gogh focused on painting and drawing.
Working outside and very quickly, he completed sketches and paintings of weavers and their cottages. Van Gogh also completed The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen, which was stolen from the Singer Laren in March [89] From August , Margot Begemann, a neighbour's daughter ten years his senior, joined him on his forays; she fell in love and he reciprocated, though less enthusiastically.
They wanted to marry, but neither side of their families approved. Margot was distraught and took an overdose of strychnine, but survived after Van Gogh rushed her to a nearby hospital.
Van gogh photography illinois: Today, Vincent van Gogh is considered one of the greatest artists in human history. By combining influences as diverse as the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the strong outlines from Japanese woodblock printing, Van Gogh arrived at a truly unique mode of expression in his paintings. Gauguin made a hasty departure and Van Gogh's dreams of an artist's colony disappeared. The painting bears witness to the artist's renewed strength and control in his art, as the composition is rendered with uncharacteristic realism, where all his facial features are clearly modeled and careful attention is given to contrasting textures of skin, cloth, and wood.
On 26 March , his father died of a heart attack.
Van Gogh painted several groups of still lifes in During his two-year stay in Nuenen, he completed numerous drawings and watercolours and nearly oil paintings. His palette consisted mainly of sombre earth tones, particularly dark brown, and showed no sign of the vivid colours that distinguished his later work.
There was interest from a dealer in Paris early in Theo asked Vincent if he had paintings ready to exhibit.
In May, Van Gogh responded with his first major work, The Potato Eaters, and a series of "peasant character studies" which were the culmination of several years of work. When he complained that Theo was not making enough effort to sell his paintings in Paris, his brother responded that they were too dark and not in keeping with the bright style of Impressionism.
In August his work was publicly exhibited for the first time, in the shop windows of the dealer Leurs in The Hague. One of his young peasant sitters became pregnant in September ; Van Gogh was accused of forcing himself upon her, and the village priest forbade parishioners to model for him.
Still Life with Open Bible, Extinguished Candle and Novel, also Still Life with Bible, c.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, c. – Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Peasant Woman Digging, or Woman with a Spade, Seen from Behind, c. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Tête de paysanne à la coiffe blanche, c.
Private collection.
He moved to Antwerp that November and rented a room above a paint dealer's shop in the rue des Images (Lange Beeldekensstraat). He lived in poverty and ate poorly, preferring to spend the money Theo sent on painting materials and models. Bread, coffee and tobacco became his staple diet.
In February , he wrote to Theo that he could only remember eating six hot meals since the previous May. His teeth became loose and painful. In Antwerp he applied himself to the study of colour theory and spent time in museums—particularly studying the work of Peter Paul Rubens—and broadened his palette to include carmine, cobalt blue and emerald green.
Van Gogh bought Japanese ukiyo-e woodcuts in the docklands, later incorporating elements of their style into the background of some of his paintings. He was drinking heavily again, and was hospitalised between February and March , when he was possibly also treated for syphilis.[note 7]
Farm with Stacks of Peat, c
After his recovery, despite his antipathy towards academic teaching, he took the higher-level admission exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp and, in January , matriculated in painting and drawing.
He became ill and run down by overwork, poor diet and excessive smoking. He started to attend drawing classes after plaster models at the Antwerp Academy on 18 January He quickly got into trouble with Charles Verlat, the director of the academy and teacher of a painting class, because of his unconventional painting style. Van Gogh had also clashed with the instructor of the drawing class Franz Vinck.
Artist biography van gogh By The Art Institute of Chicago. Mature Period. His use of bold and vibrant colors to depict the off-kilter perspective of his room demonstrated his liberation from the muted palette and realistic renderings of the Dutch artistic tradition, as well as the pastels commonly used by the Impressionists. Dorn, Roland, et al.Van Gogh finally started to attend the drawing classes after antique plaster models given by Eugène Siberdt. Soon Siberdt and Van Gogh came into conflict when the latter did not comply with Siberdt's requirement that drawings express the contour and concentrate on the line. When Van Gogh was required to draw the Venus de Milo during a drawing class, he produced the limbless, naked torso of a Flemish peasant woman.
Siberdt regarded this as defiance against his artistic guidance and made corrections to Van Gogh's drawing with his crayon so vigorously that he tore the paper. Van Gogh then flew into a violent rage and shouted at Siberdt: 'You clearly do not know what a young woman is like, God damn it! A woman must have hips, buttocks, a pelvis in which she can carry a baby!' According to some accounts, this was the last time Van Gogh attended classes at the academy and he left later for Paris.
On 31 March , which was about a month after the confrontation with Siberdt, the teachers of the academy decided that 17 students, including Van Gogh, had to repeat a year. The story that Van Gogh was expelled from the academy by Siberdt is therefore unfounded.[]
Paris (–)
See also: Japonaiserie (Van Gogh) and Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Paris)
Van Gogh moved to Paris in March where he shared Theo's rue Laval apartment in Montmartre and studied at Fernand Cormon's studio.
In June the brothers took a larger flat at 54 rue Lepic. In Paris, Vincent painted portraits of friends and acquaintances, still life paintings, views of Le Moulin de la Galette, scenes in Montmartre, Asnières and along the Seine. In in Antwerp he had become interested in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints and had used them to decorate the walls of his studio; while in Paris he collected hundreds of them.
He tried his hand at Japonaiserie, tracing a figure from a reproduction on the cover of the magazine Paris Illustre, The Courtesan or Oiran (), after Keisai Eisen, which he then graphically enlarged in a painting.
After seeing the portrait of Adolphe Monticelli at the Galerie Delareybarette, Van Gogh adopted a brighter palette and a bolder attack, particularly in paintings such as his Seascape at Saintes-Maries ().
Two years later, Vincent and Theo paid for the publication of a book on Monticelli paintings, and Vincent bought some of Monticelli's works to add to his collection.
Van Gogh learned about Fernand Cormon's atelier from Theo. He worked at the studio in April and May , where he frequented the circle of the Australian artist John Russell, who painted his portrait in Van Gogh also met fellow students Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec&#;– who painted a portrait of him in pastel.
They met at Julien "Père" Tanguy's paint shop, (which was, at that time, the only place where Paul Cézanne's paintings were displayed). In , two large exhibitions were staged there, showing Pointillism and Neo-impressionism for the first time and bringing attention to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. Theo kept a stock of Impressionist paintings in his gallery on boulevard Montmartre, but Van Gogh was slow to acknowledge the new developments in art.
Conflicts arose between the brothers.
At the end of Theo found living with Vincent to be "almost unbearable". By early , they were again at peace, and Vincent had moved to Asnières, a northwestern suburb of Paris, where he got to know Signac. He adopted elements of Pointillism, a technique in which a multitude of small coloured dots are applied to the canvas so that when seen from a distance they create an optical blend of hues.
The style stresses the ability of complementary colours – including blue and orange – to form vibrant contrasts.