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Biography
Van Gogh's works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. His brief, turbulent, and tragic life is thought to epitomize the mad genius legend.
During his lifetime, Van Gogh's work was represented in two very small exhibitions and two larger ones. Only one of Van Gogh's paintings was sold while he lived. The great majority of the works by which he is remembered were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity and intermittent bouts with epileptoid seizures and profound despair that finally ended in suicide. In his grim struggle Vincent had one constant ally and support, his younger brother Théo, to whom he wrote revealing and extraordinarily beautiful letters detailing his conflicts and aspirations. As a youth Van Gogh worked for a picture dealer, antagonizing customers until he was dismissed. Compulsively humanitarian, he tried to preach to oppressed mining families and was jeered at. His difficult, contradictory personality was rejected by the women he fell in love with, and his few friendships usually ended in bitter arguments. (continued on the bottom)
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Ten years before his death Van Gogh decided to be a painter, fully conscious of the sacrifices this decision would require of him. His early work, the Dutch period of 1880–85, consists of dark greenish-brown, heavily painted studies of peasants and miners, e.g., The Potato Eaters (1885; Van Gogh Mus., Amsterdam). He copied the work of Millet, whose idealization of the rural poor he admired. In 1886 he joined Théo in Paris, where he met the foremost French painters of the postimpressionist period. The kindly Pissarro convinced him to adopt a colorful palette and thereby made a tremendously significant contribution to Van Gogh's art. His painting Père Tanguy (1887; Niarchos Coll., Paris) was the first complete and successful work in his new colors. Impressed by the theories of Seurat and Signac, Van Gogh briefly adopted a pointillist style.
In 1888, in ill health and longing for release from Paris and what he felt was his imposition upon Théo's life, he took a house at Arles. At Arles he was joined by Gauguin for a brief period fraught with tension, during which he mutilated his left ear in the course of his first attack of dementia. His paintings from this period include the incomparable series of sunflowers (1888; one version: National Gall., London); The Night Café (Yale Univ.); and The Public Gardens in Arles (Phillips Coll., Washington, D.C.). During his illness he was confined first to the Arles Hospital, then to the asylum at Saint-Rémy, where, in 1889, he painted the swirling, climactic Starry Night (Mus. of Modern Art, New York City).
Van Gogh's last three months were spent in Auvers near Pissarro, painting the postman Roulin and the sympathetic, eccentric Dr. Gachet, a physician and collector who watched over him. Vincent's consciousness of his burden upon Théo, by then married and a father, increased. His work tempo was pushed to the limit; one of his last paintings, Wheat Field With Crows (Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam), projected ominous overtones of distress. He despaired and shot himself, dying two days later in the arms of his brother. Théo died shortly thereafter.
Vincent Van Gogh in Museums and Web Sites (Click on link to view image)
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database
10 works by Vincent van Gogh online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
4 works online
Vincent van Gogh at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
5 works by Vincent van Gogh
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
L'Allée en Automne (Autumn Landscape), 1885
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
9 works by van Gogh
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
4 works online by van Gogh
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
3 works online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City
3 works by Vincent van Gogh online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Van Gogh's Postman: The Portraits of Joseph Roulin
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
3 works online
Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
19 works by Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Virtual tour of the Van Gogh's Van Goghs travelling exhibition
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Vincent van Gogh in the Art Renewal Center
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Self-portrait, 1889 (detail)
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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Wikimedia Commons Image Database