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An incredibly prolific artist – although much of his work was created in the last 10 years of his life – Van Gogh produced around 2000 artworks during his lifetime, and each carries with it a special part of the artist’s legacy. Here is a selection of his most famous paintings. Starry Night, 1889.
Jan 10, 2024 · 1. Vincent van Gogh, The Potato Eaters, 1885. Photograph: Courtesy Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Produced four years after Van Gogh began to paint in earnest, The Potato Eaters is generally...
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Apr 14, 2021 · From starry nights to spectacular sunflowers, here’s a guide to Van Gogh’s most famous paintings and what makes them so special.
The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh, painted in June 1889. It depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence , just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.
The golden wheat becomes an undulating sea in van Gogh’s vivid brushstrokes. The painting’s symbolism is also beautiful. For van Gogh, wheat was a symbol of the eternal cycle of nature.
View of Paris from Vincent's Room in the Rue Lepic (Dutch: Gezicht op de daken van Parijs) is the name of two paintings by the Dutch Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh from 1887, when he lived with his brother Theo in Paris.
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Sorrowing Old Man (At Eternity's Gate) is an oil painting by Vincent van Gogh that he made in 1890 in Saint-Rémy de Provence based on an early lithograph. [2] [3] The painting was completed in early May at a time when he was convalescing from a severe relapse in his health some two months before his death, which is generally accepted as a ...
