“in the immense plain against the hills, boundless as the sea, delicate yellow”
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh 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 about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. His suicide at 37 followed years of mental illness and poverty.
culture · Dutch painter (1853–1890) · painter · botanical illustrator · draftsperson · printmaker · architectural drafter · etcher · lithographer · graphic artist · art dealer · also Vincent van Gogh, Gogh
Born 30 March 1853 · Died 29 July 1890 · Q5582
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Theatre Weekly: VINCENT van GOGH: Between Worlds Archives
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NewsBreak: Local News & Alerts: The Ups & Downs Of Vincent Van Gogh's Life
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logos-pres.md: Van Gogh signed only 16% of his paintings—a study has revealed the reason - logos-pres.md
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The Art Newspaper: Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings simply as ‘Vincent’?
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The Times of India: Quote of the day by Vincent van Gogh: “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all
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Theatre Weekly: Edinburgh Fringe Review: VINCENT van GOGH: Between Worlds at Assembly George Square Studios (Underground)
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LymeLine.com: Plein Air, Van Gogh and More at Lyme Art Association
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StopFake rated the claim “Ukrainian Refugees Broke a Museum Artefact — «Van Gogh’s Сhair»” In fact, the nationality of the vandals is unknown. No other information about them is disclosed..
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “'Toil Today, Dream Tonight' was painted by Vincent van Gogh” False.
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The portrait was housed at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and estimated to be worth over $50 million
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For $57 million by using funds donated by publisher, diplomat and philanthropist Walter Annenberg
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Francis Bacon based a series of paintings on reproductions of Van Gogh's The Painter on the Road to Tarascon, the original of which was destroyed during the Second World War
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And whose descendants still lived (as of 2020) just outside Arles
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And this has been supported by the psychiatrists Hemphill and Blumer
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The novelist Irving Stone wrote a biographical novel of Van Gogh's life titled Lust for Life, based on Van Gogh's letters to Theo
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Jo van Gogh-Bonger had Theo's body exhumed and moved from Utrecht to be re-buried alongside Vincent's at Auvers-sur-Oise
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The Armory Show, New York in 1913, and Berlin in 1914
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And 1913; the majority were published in 1914
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A large Van Gogh retrospective was held at the Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, which excited André Derain and Maurice de Vlaminck, and contributed to the emergence of Fauvism
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Career landmark: Participated in Documenta III (tournament / event).
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Studied at Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
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The Fauvist painter Henri Matisse, then an unknown art student, visited John Russell on Belle Île off Brittany
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Émile Bernard organised a small solo show of Van Gogh's paintings in Paris, and Julien Tanguy exhibited his Van Gogh paintings with several consigned from Jo van Gogh-Bonger
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Octave Mirbeau wrote that Van Gogh's suicide was an "infinitely sadder loss for art
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There was a retrospective exhibition in Brussels
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Died 1890-07-29.
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“vast fields of wheat under troubled skies”
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Gauguin proposed they form a studio in Antwerp
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“I started right away to make a picture for him, to hang in their bedroom, branches of white almond blossom against a blue sky.”
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Van Gogh appears to have been building an oeuvre, a collection that reflected his personal vision and could be commercially successful
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His work was described in the journal Le Moderniste Illustré by Albert Aurier as characterised by "fire, intensity, sunshine"
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“At last I have a landscape with olives”
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“one big [painting] of a cherry tree, which I”
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Career landmark: self-injury.
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Van Gogh hoped for friendship and to realise his idea of an artists' collective
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“to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or commit a crime”
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André Antoine hung Van Gogh's alongside works of Georges Seurat and Paul Signac, at the Théâtre Libre in Paris; some were acquired by Julien Tanguy
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Moved to Paris, where he met members of the avant-garde, including Émile Bernard and Paul Gauguin, who were reacting against the Impressionist sensibility
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Two large exhibitions were staged there, showing Pointillism and Neo-impressionism for the first time and bringing attention to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac
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Describes Breton's famous work The Song of the Lark as being "fine"
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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
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The family sent him to live with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian, in Amsterdam
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Returned home at Christmas for six months and took work at a bookshop in Dordrecht
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Where he became resentful of issues such as the degree to which the art dealers commodified art, and he was dismissed a year later
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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
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Was transferred to Goupil's London branch on Southampton Street, and took lodgings at 87 Hackford Road, Stockwell
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His parents sent him to the middle school in Tilburg, where he was also deeply unhappy
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Was placed in a boarding school at Zevenbergen, where he felt abandoned, and he campaigned to come home
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And in turn drew other artists there, including Camille Corot and Honoré Daumier
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Born 1853-03-30.
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