Vincent Van Gogh

BrokenButterfly · Rookie Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 33

[u]Vincent Van Gogh[/u]

Birth Year : 1853
Death Year : 1890
Country : Netherlands

[i]Vincent van Gogh, was born in Groot-Zundest, Holland. He was the son of a pastor. Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Van Gogh finally decided to become an artist between 1860 and 1880. In that time Van Gogh had had two terrible relationships and had worked as a bookstore clerk, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage, where he was dismissed. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period were sad, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.

In 1886 he went to Paris to join his brother Tho, the manager of Goupil's gallery. In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon, inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him a difficult companion and night-long discussions combined with painting all day undermined his health. He decided to go south to Arles where he hoped his friends would join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin did join him but with disastrous results. In a fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but ended up cutting his own ear off. Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum in Saint-Remy for treatment.

In May of 1890, he went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having shot himself "for the good of all." During his brief career he had sold one painting. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, and in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh's inimitable fusion of form and content is powerful; dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and emotional, for the artist was completely absorbed in the effort to explain either his struggle against madness or his comprehension of the spiritual essence of man and nature. [/i]

[Taken and semi-edited from here ]

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"Sorrow", lithograph, Vincent van Gogh 1882

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"Still life with Potatoes", painting, Vincent van Gogh

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"Self Portrait", painting, Vincent van Gogh 1887

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"The Starry Night", painting, Vincent van Gogh 1889

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"Plain of Auvers", painting, Vincent van Gogh 1889

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"Road with Cypress and Star", painting, Vincent van Gogh 1890

*Missing 1 picture to make 7. Anything to add Mistakes to fix go ahead.*

Brianhjh · Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2005 11:23 am Post subject:

You know how to use photobucket to post more than one image per post, right? Smile

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BrokenButterfly · Rookie Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 33

lol yes I do. Did it now. Just needed to sleep last night. ^^

Brianhjh · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 11:55 am Post subject:

Sunflower, this painting was sold for 50 million dollars.

93cmx73cm.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 1:45 pm Post subject:

Here's a better pic of Potato Eaters.

This painting is considered a masterpiece but subjects like this was very unpopular in his time.

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PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:07 am Post subject:

I didn't notice the white blur infront of the closest girl at first.. now I have.. it's bugging me like hell.

50k :wacko: That's alot of money.

How big is the picture?

Brianhjh · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:45 am Post subject:

questions answered Wink

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PhunkYMunkY · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:

Hehe cheers

...Didn't he send the ear to his chick? What were the motivs?!

Hawk4444 · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 3:06 pm Post subject:

i always thought he did it because he was crazy and stupid.

Maybe stress or love. i really don't remember. Sad

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AMnezcorp · Member Joined: 29 Nov 2005 Posts: 105

AHHH!the picture of the sunflower!It's a classic.

Tengoku1 · Very bored Joined: 08 Nov 2005 Posts: 120

He did it to show her that he loved her. Possibly an attempt at showing her he would do anything for her.

The gesture was rejected, unfortunate for him.

Kittyduck · Newb Joined: 19 Jun 2004 Posts: 15

You know, someone at school thought he cut off his ear on accident. Tis' amazing the number of inaccurate assumptions one hears among peers.

Stratadrake · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:13 pm Post subject:

Actually I think it was just his ear[i]lobe[/i], not the entire ear.
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Brianhjh · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject:

[quote="Kittyduck (Kittyduck)"] You know, someone at school thought he cut off his ear on accident. Tis' amazing the number of inaccurate assumptions one hears among peers. [/quote]

Cut off your signature.
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LunaticCrow · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:02 am Post subject:

You know, Van Gogh has his on category on Adultfanfiction. W00t!

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Fayore · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 6195

I've always wondered why that was. Probably because of the sheer amount of fiction people make up about his supposed life. :0 I know there have been movies on that, at the very least. :/
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Edward_Elric_1308 · Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

I've heard of Van Gogh. I had to do a report on him last year for my art class, and do a recreation of one of his artworks, "The Starry Night".

I like "The Starry Night", and "Sunflowers". Smile

com50l · Member Joined: 02 May 2007 Posts: 45

Personally i dont like Vincent Van Gogh

TKGBIdeon · Newb Joined: 05 Jul 2007 Posts: 21

I saw a documery on Van Gogh on a show called "Power of Art". Well I didn't really saw it but just overheard while I was working on stuff on my computer.

After the show I can honestly say, I do not like Van Gogh at all. To me he's just a crazy painter who chopped of his ear and talked to himself for guidance. PFFFT to Van Gogh.
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Selphius · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:00 pm Post subject:

[quote="TKGBIdeon"]I saw a documery on Van Gogh on a show called "Power of Art". Well I didn't really saw it but just overheard while I was working on stuff on my computer.

After the show I can honestly say, I do not like Van Gogh at all. To me he's just a crazy painter who chopped of his ear and talked to himself for guidance. PFFFT to Van Gogh.[/quote]

Right, because people who made a mark in the art world(and world in general) are just mediocre artists, right? Not interesting at all.

Go draw some more crappy anime.

PFFFT to TKGBIdeon.
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