Who is Vincent Van Gogh?

Answer 1

He was vewy nasty to da milk lady.

Answer 2

A painter. His Genius never founded a single school of painters, but influenced many artists that came after him as influenced, in a broad sense, modernism. Is said to be one of the precursors of modernism. He lived a difficult life, sufferering from a sharp sensibility that used to be overshadowed by a mental disease, had problems with alcohol and with prostitutes. During his lifetime he never managed to get rich or to get famous. He died commiting suicide, tormented and poor. Years after his death, his brother Teo, someone who used to help him with some money for his living, inherited found out he had inherited a great sum of money from all of Vincent's paintings he had kept. A good site to take a look at more than 1000 of his works is the AllPosters.com, actually a commercial site that allows you to get by and give it a peer, while you can also view the paintings in a larger scale too, once you want: http://www.allposters.com/-st/Vincent-van-Gogh-Posters_c28945_.htm

Answer 3

A very famous Dutch painter of the mid to late 1800's. He had a very distinctive style and used color in a more aggressive way than previous painters had done. He was an impressionist painter but painted more boldly than the other impressionists did with bigger brush strokes and he sometimes used a palette knife to apply the paint in thicker, textured layers.
I'm sure you've seen some of his work even if you don't realize it. Here's a link to some paintings:
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/van_gogh_vincent.html

Answer 4

He 'is' not. He's been dead for some time. He 'was' a Dutch impressionist painter, who died young and it is thought that he was bi-polar or 'manic-depressive' during his life.

A quick search on google or wikipedia would have given you vast amounts of information. One has to wonder why you didn't choose either of those methods of learning about this quite famous person.

Answer 5

Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundest, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.

In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Théo, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting his own ear off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.

In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature.

See his works here- http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/

Answer 6

He was a genius in a madman.Cut of his ear,shot himself and died.There is a whole museum dedicated to his works.The majority calls him a madman but there was a genius beneath him.The museum is called Van Gogh Museum,its in Amsterdam(beautiful place and a beautiful museum)

Answer 7

A Painting Contractor in San Francisco.

Answer 8

have u ever seen the movie...Break Up...well if u have then the main guy in that movie is Vincent Van Gogh. he's the tall guy with super short black hair and a lil heavy...:P

Answer 9

An artist who cut off his ear to demonstrate his love for a prostitute. His most famous painting, "Starry starry night,"

Don McLean wrote a ballad about him called "Vincent."

Answer 10

Famous impressionistic painter of the Rembrandt era.

Answer 11

Vincent was a psycho picture artist. He had to hear unpleasant sounds and had to cut off his left ear.