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- The Wounded Veteran, c. 1882–83, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. While living in the Hague, Van Gogh got creative in finding live models. For a time he recruited sitters, many of whom were war veterans, from a home for the elderly in the Hague.
- Landscape With Wheelbarrow (1883), Cleveland Museum of Art. This early watercolor dates to when Van Gogh was living in Drenthe, a northeastern province in the Netherlands.
- Le Moulin de la Galette, 1886–87, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. To some, this painting—of a windmill near the apartment Van Gogh and his brother Theo shared in the still relatively rural neighborhood of Montmartre in Paris—might seem to be yet another oddity in Van Gogh’s catalogue.
- A Pair of Boots, 1887, Baltimore Museum of Art. This work also dates from Van Gogh’s Paris period. At the time, the artist was broke; traveling to scenic locales for the express purpose of painting them, as some better-off artists would have done, was out of the question for him.
What makes a portrait modern? And what makes a modern portrait continue to appear modern, even decades after it was created? For Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), the answer was clear: color. “What I’m most passionate about, much much more than all the rest in my profession,” he enthused to his sister, Willemien, “is the portrait, the modern portrait.
Apr 3, 2014 · Vincent van Gogh was one of the world’s greatest artists, with paintings such as ‘Starry Night’ and ‘Sunflowers,’ though he was unknown until after his death.
In just over a decade, he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.
1890. During Vincent van Gogh’s tumultuous career as a painter, he created a revolutionary style characterized by exaggerated forms, a vivid color palette, and loose, spontaneous handling of paint. Although he only actively pursued his art for five years before his death in 1890, his impact has lived on through his works.
Sep 11, 2024 · Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, generally considered to be the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. He sold only one artwork during his life, but in the century after his death he became perhaps the most recognized painter of all time.
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Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ‿vɑŋ‿ˈɣɔx] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) 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 approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them ...
