Vincent van Gogh Paintings

Vincent Willem Van Gogh was a Dutch and famous artist who emerged as one of the most famous figures in the history of Western art after his death. In only a decade, Van Gogh created many popular artworks. We have a collection of world-famous artwork of Van Gogh prints, Canvas canvas art, and hand-painted paintings
Vincent Van Gogh was the most renowned artist who created masterpieces during his journey and was praised worldwide. He was a Dutch painter born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, Netherlands. The only painter who was considered the master of painting after Rembrandt van Rijn was Vincent Van Gogh. He is one of the conic pots impressionists of the century.

The magnificent colors, striking brushwork, and contoured forms reflect modern artistic expression. His art pieces become popular after his death in the late 20th century. When his painting sold out for record-breaking money during an auction worldwide, he gained more fame and was featured in the blockbuster touring exhibition. In addition, Van Gogh has been canonized in the public imagination as the ideal suffering artist, partly thanks to his copious published writings.

Early life

Van Gogh, the elder son of six kids of a Protestant pastor, was brought up in a remote village in the southern Dutch province of Brabant. He was a calm, self-contained young man who spent his spare time traveling the countryside, observing nature. Then, at 16, he began working as an apprentice for the art traders Goupil & Co., of whom his uncle was a participant.
Van Gogh painted for Goupil in London from 1873 until May 1875 and then in Paris till April 1876. His artistic perception was aroused by regular communication with works of art, and he soon developed an appreciation for Frans Hals, Rembrandt, and other Dutch masters, even if his taste was for two different contemporary French artists, Jean-François Millet and Camille Corot, whose involvement would last across the whole of his life. On the other hand, Van Gogh despised the business of selling paintings. Furthermore, after a London girl abandoned his love in 1874, his outlook on life changed. With his yearning craving for human love stifled, he grew increasingly isolated.

With his yearning craving for human love stifled, he grew increasingly isolated. He worked as a language instructor and lay preacher in England before becoming a bookstore in Dordrecht, Netherlands, in 1877. Incited by a desire to help humankind, he studied theology and planned to enter the priesthood; nevertheless, he abandoned this plan in 1878 to pursue a brief presentation as a missionary in Brussels. When he questioned the conventional theological stance, he found himself in a battle with authority. After three months, he traveled to perform humanitarian work among the impoverished people of the Borinage, a coal-mining district in southern Belgium.
He fell into despair and retreated from everybody, penniless and certain that his religion had been broken. "They think I'm crazy because I aspired to be a real Christian," he told a friend. They treated me like a dog and accused me of generating controversy." That was when van Gogh began to sketch seriously, recognizing his true calling as an artist in 1880. Van Gogh determined that from then on, his duty would be to convey comfort to people via art. "I want to send a fraternal message to the downtrodden," he stated to his brother Theo. "I sign [my paintings] 'Vincent,' as if I were one of them."

The Productive Decade

His career as an artist was relatively brief, spanning only ten years between 1880 and 1890. During the initial four years of this era, he devoted himself nearly entirely to sketches and watercolors while gaining technical skills. He first studied sketching at the Brussels Academy before moving to his father's rectory in Etten, Netherlands, and beginning to create from nature in 1881.
Van Gogh worked hard and meticulously, but he soon realized that self-training was difficult and that he needed to seek the advice of more experienced painters. Late in 1881, he moved to The Hague to engage with Anton Mauve, a Dutch landscape painter. He went to galleries and visited other painters. In the summertime of 1882, Van Gogh expanded his technical skills and dabbled with oil paint.
In 1883, his desire to be "alone with the landscape" and with farmers led him to Drenthe, a remote region of the northern Netherlands favored by Mauve and other Dutch painters, where he stayed for 3 months before actually returning home, which already was then in Nuenen, a small town in Brabant. He stayed at Nuenen for the majority of 1884 and 1885, and his painting became bolder and more certain during this time.
He painted three sorts of subjects: still life, landscapes, and portrait, all of which are linked by their depiction of peasant life, difficulties, and the terrain they cultivated. Germinal (1885), a novel depicting France's coal-mining area, profoundly struck van Gogh, and societal critique is implied in several of his paintings from this period, including Weavers as Well as the Potato Eaters. But, unfortunately, he eventually became too secluded in Nuenen.

Impress of Paris

Vincent van Gogh attended art courses at the Antwerp Academy in 1886, although only for a portion of the year. After relocating to Paris with his brother, Theo, Vincent studied alongside artist Cormon and met other artists John Russell, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Emile Bernard.
Theo, an antique dealer, exposed his brother to the paintings of famous Impressionist painters such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Georges Seurat, all of whom had a significant effect on the artist's subsequent paintings. During this time, they befriended and Vincent met the artist Paul Gauguin, whose vividly colored works influenced the Dutchman's art.
Vincent van Gogh experimented with Seurat's post-impressionist method in paintings such as A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte in 1887. Vincent uses small spots of light-reflecting color to show a sharp-featured guy with the world-weary face of an individual who has experienced more than his fair share of adversity in one of his numerous self-portraits: Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat.
During this period in his life, Vincent van Gogh became interested in Ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints, that both he and predecessors such as Edgar Degas and Claude Monet began to acquire, and which inspired works exhibiting the Japonaiserie impact on his artistic vision.
Van Gogh's 1887 rendition of Keisai Eisen's The Courtesan contains an infusion of vivid hues that considerably exceed the original. In place of Eisen's cherry blossoms, he picked a lily pond as his background.

The era of 1888-1890

In 1888, Vincent van Gogh relocated from Theo's Paris apartment to Arles, southern France, wherein he leased The Yellow House. In the springtime, he painted Provence's flowering sceneries and seascapes in neighboring Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer. During this fruitful phase in the artist's life, he completed several portraitures, notably his Roulin family series.
Vincent van Gogh was concentrating on his second edition of Sunflowers paintings while arranging a place in his Yellow House for Gauguin, who expected to visit Arles for an extended holiday later in the year. He wrote the first volume while visiting his brother in Paris.
Sunflower paintings by the artist included a variety of backdrops and combinations of enormous golden blooms, each comparable yet different. Art experts particularly admire these pieces for their unique use of the yellow color spectrum. Others like the artworks for their distinct combination of simplicity and intensely expressive detail.

Gaugin’s Visit

Although highly waited patiently by Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin's presence in the Yellow House in October 1888 did not go exactly as planned. Both artists were having a fruitful moment in their careers at the time, but conflicts and fights tarnished the positive mood of their stay. Tensions between the two peaked in late December when Vincent allegedly assaulted his coworker with a razor and sliced off a portion of his own ear instead of engaging. Vincent van Gogh spent the following three days in a medical facility in Arles.
Following his admission to the institution at Saint-Remy-de-Provence, the artist created a series of stylistically different paintings depicting the hospital and the surrounding gardens, olive trees, and cypresses, despite his rapid mental decline.
While at Saint-Remy, Vincent van Gogh painted his dazzling 1889 masterpiece, Irises, in the garden. Thanks to Theo's involvement, the painting, which has certain features of Japanese woodcuts combined with the artist's propensity for color and light, was included in the annual Societe des Artistes Independent display in Paris, in addition to the Van Gogh work, Starry Night Over the Rhone. As a result, the premier exhibition brought the artist's brilliance to a wider audience than before.

Final Days

As he neared the end of his life, Vincent van Gogh gravitated toward the green and blue color palette shown in Thatched Cottages at Cordeville. He also liked curving, undulating lines representing dynamism and energy, such as the site boundary in the forefront and the woodlands behind him. The deformation of recognizable shapes, such as the cottages, moves the artwork to transcend Impressionism and into new expressions. As he approached his demise at age 37, Vincent van Gogh was inventing a totally new Post-Impressionistic style.
Vincent van Gogh was stabbed in the abdomen on July 27, 1890, and died in his apartment at the Auberge Ravoux in the northeastern French commune of Auvers-Sur-Oise. Although official history holds that Van Gogh tried to commit suicide, new evidence suggests that his death resulted from an accident.
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SELF PORTRAIT, 1889

Perhaps van Gogh's most exquisite self-portrait is the one with the pale blue backdrop he produced in September 1889 at the institution of Saint Remy after he had rehabilitated from two months of insanity.
In 1889, van Gogh wrote to artist brother Theo about such a self-portrait: "I hope you will note my face expressions have grown calmer, yet my eyes maintain the same insecure aspect as before, so it looks to me."
In addition to the painting's background, which is made of spirals of green chartreuse and light turquoise, extremely delicate yet angered in a conglomeration of spirals, it is van Gogh's stare that penetrates this self-portrait.

VINCENT'S BEDROOM IN ARLES

This picture depicts the interior decoration of van Gogh's bedroom. It was completed one year without his death. The chamber was located within the artist's yellow home in Arles.
It was a horrible setting with little furnishings and things. On the right, there is merely a wooden bed. A tiny table on the left contains items for everyday hygiene. A plate, a glass, and a pitcher are on the table. The table suggests that this equipment was probably also allocated to the artist's modest meals. Van Gogh decorated his room in brilliant hues to indicate that he lived in tranquility and comfort.

THE STARRY NIGHT

The Starry Night was created during van Gogh's stay at the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence mental institution. It was stamped June 1889, a fortnight after his admission and thirteen months before his suicide.
The tuft of cypresses rising from either the bottom left connects the soil and the air. A vortex amid the sky serves as the main protagonist of Starry Night due to its magnitude and proportions. The center vortex is the most developed figure in The Starry Night.

SUNFLOWERS

The sunflowers conveyed their enthusiasm of van Gogh for the distinctive luminescence of the Provence sun that he struck during his stay in Arles and designed to allow van Gogh to utilize the entire spectrum of yellow, a favorite color, particularly in that period, thanks to a groundbreaking technique called "solid dough." After gathering abundant colors, van Gogh applied them to the canvas with such zeal that lumps of paint were left on both sides of each stroke.
The flowers are disorganized, almost untamed, and are portrayed by moving touches that follow the mobility of blossoms and leaves, coming alive and charging themself with a symbolic significance, a metaphor for nature's energy.

CAFÉ TERRACE AT NIGHT

The perspective utilized in 'The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, At Night' is central, and the nuances tend to disappear as the eye approaches the end of the road. Furthermore, the pieces are arranged asymmetrically. In reality, the coffee takes up a lot of area inside the canvas, while the remaining architecture is rendered quickly and reveals certain aspects of the town. Despite this, the buildings on the right side of the town in the oil painting are produced, and we see the extraordinary care with which the curves of the residences are built.

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