History of Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a post-Impressionist Dutch painter. The paintings and drawings including works of art the best, most famous, and most expensive in the world. Van Gogh is considered as one of the greatest painters in European art history. He was the eldest of six brothers, sons Protestant pastor in Groot Zundert, paintings representing posimpressionisme wing era of emotional spontaneity in painting. Vincent is the somber, anxious, and temperamental, but his knowledge is extensive. It can be seen in a letter he sent to 700 of the most beloved brother, Theo, who also served as his manager. These letters were later published as a record of Van Gogh's life in 1911.

In his youth Van Gogh worked at a company selling artwork, and after some time working as a teacher, he served as a missionary who worked in a very poor mining region. At age 16, Vincent sent to The Hague to learn to work on his uncle who is an associate of international companies that trade artwork. There, he studied painting at the Anton Mauve. After failing to deal with clients, he was sent to London and then moved his uncles place of another, until he surprised everyone in the ability berkothbahnya. He also learned disebuah gospel training in Belgium, but in leave her to work as a preacher among poor miners there.

At age 27, he found his true calling and returned to the Netherlands. He made a work that fits humanity, potato eaters (1885), a dark and gloomy, expressed sadness and poverty the people in his paintings. The same year, he enrolled at the art academy in Antwerp, Belgium. But he went on day two, after his teacher said that his brush strokes are too heavy. In this city he was influenced style of Peter Paul Rubens paintings and Japanese painter named Hokusai (1760-1849).

Later, he and Theo went keParis in 1886. After that, Vincent moved to Arles, while Theo remains live and in charge of selling his paintings. Van Gouh left the bold brush strokes and the reality of morality. He decided to use bright colors in his paintings to express simbolime of fields, trees and rural life as night watch (1888) and Starry Night (1889). He then invited the painter Paul Gauguin to join. However, after they quarreled and went Gauguin, Van Gogh suffered severe depression.

Initially followed the typical painter of his time with the Impressionist style. But dissatisfaction with the restraints of artistic expression by impressionism grip make it turn on the style of expressionism. Vincent Van Gogh was diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Diagnosis is made by 2 different doctors who treated him. Van Gogh also been cut off his own ear. At the end of his life, he felt himself to be insane and ended up spending the rest of his life in hospital Soul Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France. In R.S. Soul Saint Paul-de-Mausole, he still paints.

Another source said that the brother of his death finally sent her to the hospital for a mental rest. Van Gogh was quiet in that place and start painting again. Finally he came out and staying in a hostel. Depression who have not lost a total make shot himself on July 27, 1890. It was discovered by the owner of the forest bungalow, and because it has not died, her sister was called. Two days later Van Gogh died and was buried. After Theo died, he was buried next to her brother. During his lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting, "Red Vineyard at Arles" (1889).