Van Gogh Born on March 30th, in 1853, Vincent Van Gogh was the son of a pastor in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Throughout his life many learned that there was more than meets the eye to Van Gogh. Van Gogh was a very complex and troubled man and through his struggle used his art as an outlet for his emotions, creating some of the most famous paintings throughout history. Vincent Van Gogh was a self-taught artist born the eldest son of Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Vincent was born exactly one year after the Van Gogh’s first son had been born a stillborn. Many people believe that Vincent Van Gogh struggled with being the replacement child for the families lost of the first Vincent Willem. Eventually, Vincent would have five more siblings: Thoedorus, Cornelius Vincent, Anna Cornelia, Elisabeth Huberta, and Willemina Jacoba. Though there is very little about the early life of Vincent Van Gogh, much of what we know is from his correspondence with his siblings, especially with younger brother, Theo, and younger sister, Willemina. In her memoirs, his sister Elisabeth recalls Vincent being a serious, sensitive boy who preferred solitude to the companionship of family and friends and loved flowers, birds, and insects. He was a good student, but, according to his sister, his choice of clothing and his eating habits and solitary nature made him appear slightly strange to others from a young age (Sparknotes). Vincent Van Gogh’s education was not complete for her only went to school for one year in Zundert. Van Gogh then went to boarding school in Zevenbergen for two years, then he completed eighteen months of high school at Tilburg. While at Zevenbergen he studied English, French, and German before he transferred to Tilburg... ... middle of paper ... ...acks and reactive depression that caused bipolar disorder. Looking over the course of his life it would seem evident that there were definitely some mental issues going on. These issue that pushed Vincent Van Gogh to commit suicide at the age of 37. Deemed as one the greatest and most famous Post-Impressionism painters of his time, I would say that Vincent Van Gogh was a very successful artist. Though he may have had some issues, theses issues are what helped him produce the great art that we have of his today. Many people would call him a “tortured soul” of sorts, but what artist isn’t? Vincent Van Gogh had done so much in his lifetime and accomplished so much in such a short career, which I believe is astounding. Many people say people do crazy things for what they love and I truly believe that Vincent Van Gogh did crazy things for his love art and expression.
...ded after his death, it was Artaud that claimed, “No, Van Gogh is not crazy, he was pushed to suicidal despair by a society which rejected his works.” Whether or not Artaud’s theory is correct, Vincent Van Gogh was in fact very ill and his paintings are famous for how lucid they are in illustrating the way his mental illness affected him. Van Gogh’s post-impressionist style is very unique of the late 19th century in France and most of his work was done with impasto technique as a way of expression. It is recognizable that his illness had a larger impact on his paintings’ subject matters than the style they were painted in. Vincent Van Gogh’s fame mostly came after his death, and while his paintings did help him to express himself, they now live on to visually translate the true, unwritten stories of his life and the effects paintings have with a mental illness.
Vincent Van Gogh (30 M arch 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Unpopular at his time but still his own worst critic, he suffered from painful anxiety and mental illness, and died at the age of 37.
Reference 9 and 10- "The life of Van Gogh" Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, pages 760 and 746. Published in 2011.
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter, whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. Van Gogh's birth came one year to the day after his mother gave birth to a first, stillborn child; also named Vincent. There has been much speculation about Vincent van Gogh suffering later psychological trauma as a result of being a "replacement child" and having a deceased brother with the same name and same birth date. Early in life, he displayed a moody, restless character that was to spoil his every pursuit. This theory remains unproven, however, and there is no actual historical evidence to support it.
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Using phraseology similar to that of Pollock, one could say that there are four van Goghs: the failing peasant, the successful sophisticate, the eccentric meaningful lover, and the van Gogh of the present day. All who have knowledge of the artist would know how complex his life was, and so it is not incredible to believe that he was all these things during his relatively short life. (Born in 1853, he died at the age of only 37, in 1890.) An alternate definition of Pollock’s statement is the following:
What drove Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30,1853, to his mental illness and suicide? Could it have been the many things he tried, but failed at in his life? He failed in many different careers, in love, and even his artwork. Van Gogh sold only one painting his entire life. Because of his mental illness, he was considered a crazy person.
Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853 and died in an asylum at saint-Remy in 1890. As his father was a minister he was brought up in very religious and cultured surroundings and was a man of deep religious belief. Van Gogh tried many jobs unsuccessfully and his career as an artist lasted only 10 years from 1880 – 1890. In 1886 Van Gogh moved to Paris to stay with his brother Theo, with whom he had a very close relationship and whose unfailing financial support allowed Van Gogh to devote himself entirely to painting. Theo was an art dealer and through him Vincent met the impressionists Pissarro, Monet and Gauguin. The influences of these men caused him to move away from more formal painting, to experiment with, and develop, new techniques, to lighten the colours he used and to paint in the short brush strokes of the Impressionists. As well as this he was also influenced to paint using tubes, enabling him to paint ‘en plein air’. All things Japanese were very fashionable in Paris at the time and Van Gogh copied the style of Japanese prints in their use of strong outlines and large flat areas of colour, visible in the backgrounds of some of his portraits. Van Gogh moved to Arles in the south of France in February 1888; this was his ‘golden year’. He loved Arles and the bright light which seemed very beautiful to him. While there, Van Gogh lived in ‘The Yellow House’ and later when he invited Gauguin to stay he decorated his room in a series of his famous yellow sunflowers.
... the 20th century vogue in romanticized psychological biography. Who knows of how many other great paintings he could have completed in the following years. Although his life was cut short, Vincent van Gogh has since been recognized as one of the great geniuses of modern art. He was clearly one of the greatest postimpressionism painters of all time.
Vincent was an influential post-Impressionist painter born in 1853, Netherlands. With Theo van Gogh’s association, Vincent met reputable Impressionist painters such as Émile Henri Bernard and Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. Impressionism served as a platform for Vincent in developing his own style . He explored with colours, a stark contrast from his usual dark and sombre style. The influence of Japonisme charmed Vincent into residing in Arles where he began painting landscapes. Thereafter, Vincent voluntarily checked into Saint-Rémy sanatorium where his works reflected strong colours and lights of the countryside around him. His manic depression and epileptic condition, led to his suicide on July 27th 1890.
Art is a severe Goddess, who in return for her smiles demands many sacrifices. No one did more to please her, and no one was so insufficiently rewarded as Van Gogh. Several times the blows that she dealt him were painful enough to make any reasonable man resign. Only fanaticism and faith in her would permit one to leap the abyss between reality and desire. With cruel, merciless method, art asked from Van Gogh everything. It was a loan that multiplied with time and was never paid back. It haunted him within the recesses of his soul, it flirted with him and raises his hopes, it took away from him everything that was dear, and when it could finally take no more, it decided to take his life.
Van Gogh suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy and mental illness, most commonly believed to be manic depression. According to the artist, “I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” Vincent van Gogh experienced multiple bi-polar breakdowns within a short period of time before his death on July 29, 1890. A few of his biographers claim that it was a child with a “malfunctioning gun” that fired the shot, killing the artist two days later, but because of his mental status, Vincent’s death is commonly believed to have been suicide.
Vincent Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853 in Zundert, the Netherlands. When Vincent was a young kid, he showed no signs he wanted to be a painter. Instead, he spent most of his time outdoors collecting birds nests or collecting bugs. Vincent came from a poor family and he spent most of his time outside because he had a big family and a small house. Vincent found his call to be an artist when his brother, Theo told him he should be focused more on
Vincent Van Gogh being one of the pioneers for the expressionist movement, and just art in general was heavy on the expression of societal issues. Van Gogh was born in Holland in the small town of Groot-Zundert. As a child, he battled with emotion and social confidence, and used art as a form of expression. Around the Mid-1800’s he started painting seriously while residing in Belgium to study the thing he loves to do.
Vincent Van Gogh had a humble upbringing. As a pastor’s son, he believed that he should give back to his community, but failed. It was not until his early thirties that he completed his first successful piece of artwork. Demons in his head kept him from the normalcy he craved and he found himself in hospital for the insane. He completed a series of paintings that depict the surrounding landscape of the institution, one on the most famous being Wheat Fields With Cypresses. Van Gogh never truly realized his greatness and at the young age of 37, he shot himself. Unfortunately, he never got to see the appreciation and recognition his art receives, even 124 years later.