Can someone give me some useful information on Van Gogh? I am currently doing a sch project.?

Question

Like what kind of painter was he? How did he die??

Answer 1

Birth name Vincent van Gogh
Born March 30, 1853
Zundert, The Netherlands
Died July 29, 1890
Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Nationality Dutch
Field Painter
Movement Post-Impressionism
Famous works The Potato Eaters, Falling Autumn Leaves, The Starry Night, Portrait of Dr. Gachet

I think he painted mostly abstract paintings

Answer 2

Van Gogh actually had a very unique style although impressionism was the style of the times. He is typically categorized as Post-Impressionism.

Van Gogh died from a self inflicted chest wound - 2 days after he shot himself. It is believed that he had severe depression. The long term effects of syphillis and exposure to lead (in paints in that era) only helped fuel his psychosis.


Hope this helps!

Answer 3

You'd probably be better off going to the library and getting several books on the subject than asking the people on this forum. Also, you can go to wikipedia and look, but keep in mind that you can't always rely on the information you get there.

Answer 4

You DO understand that there are these search sites called 'google' and 'wikipedia', right? Wikipedia for instance will give you pages of info on any actual famous person. How about you start there?

Answer 5

Type "Van Gogh" in your Google and you'll find everything you need.

Answer 6

My favorite piece of knowledge about Van Gogh is that he cut of one of his ears and sent it to his girlfriend who I think was a hooker. They think he had syphillis.

Answer 7

Here you go, hope this is useful for you:-

"Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the art dealers, Goupil and Co. in The Hague, through his uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England (1876), before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). After he failed to get a post in the Church, he went to live as an independent missionary among the Borinage miners.

"He was largely self-taught as an artist, although he received help from his cousin, Mauve. His first works were heavily painted, mud-colored and clumsy attempts to represent the life of the poor (e.g. Potato-Eaters, 1885, Amsterdam), influenced by one of his artistic heroes, Millet. He moved to Paris in 1886, living with his devoted brother, Theo, who as a dealer introduced him to artists like Gauguin, Pissarro, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec. In Paris, he discovered color as well as the divisionist ideas which helped to create the distinctive dashed brushstrokes of his later work (e.g. Pere Tanguy, 1887, Paris). He moved to Arles, in the south of France, in 1888, hoping to establish an artists' colony there, and was immediately struck by the hot reds and yellows of the Mediterranean, which he increasingly used symbolically to represent his own moods (e.g. Sunflowers, 1888, London, National Gallery). He was joined briefly by Gauguin in October 1888, and managed in some works to combine his own ideas with the latter's Synthetism (e.g. The Sower, 1888, Amsterdam), but the visit was not a success. A final argument led to the infamous episode in which Van Gogh mutilated his ear.
"In 1889, he became a voluntary patient at the St. Remy asylum, where he continued to paint, often making copies of artists he admired. His palette softened to mauves and pinks, but his brushwork was increasingly agitated, the dashes constructed into swirling, twisted shapes, often seen as symbolic of his mental state (e.g. Ravine, 1889, Otterlo). He moved to Auvers, to be closer to Theo in 1890 - his last 70 days spent in a hectic program of painting. He died, having sold only one work, following a botched suicide attempt. His life is detailed in a series of letters to his brother (published 1959)."

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