Van Gogh’s personal profile, works, style, and introduction should be more detailed!

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in a family of a Protestant pastor in the Dutch countryside of Zundert. In his early years, he worked as a clerk and business agent, and as a missionary in the mining area. Finally, he devoted himself to painting.

His early painting style was realistic, influenced by traditional Dutch painting and French realism. In 1886, he came to Paris, got acquainted with Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painters, and came into contact with Japanese Ukiyo-e works. The expansion of his horizons made his painting style change dramatically. His paintings began to change from the dull and dim early days to concise, Bright and intensely colored.

Main works:

"Potato Eaters", "Harvest Scene", "Starry Night", "Sunflowers", "Night Cafe", "Cypress Tree". Vincent had 864 oil paintings, 1037 sketches, and 150 watercolors in his life, and his watercolors were outstanding and equal to his oil paintings. He personally loved portraits and painted 35 self-portraits and 11 sunflowers in his life.

Style:

Van Gogh’s works are full of natural compassion and suffering. For example, in the early days of Van Gogh's artistic career, the most common themes in his paintings were the miserable scenes in mining areas and working miners. During the Eton period, the rolling sunset, farmers and peasant women in the sun appeared more in his works.

By the time of Dorent and The Hague, Van Gogh began to frequently appear in his works weeping women, two-year-old trees, elderly orphans in urban relief homes, old horses driving horses, and working farmers. etc.

Extended information:

Van Gogh had a high passion for farmers, field life, and rural scenery. He loved everything about farmers, especially sunflowers, wheat fields, and warblers. , pea flowers, etc.

He often chose these objects that exude the fragrance of earth as the subjects of his paintings. During his short artistic career, Van Gogh relied on his keen artistic perception to depict these simple objects affectionately and meticulously. , natural scenery, still life and figures, he is also known as "the purest painter among painters".

His preference for color almost reached a state of madness. Although this has a certain connection with his mental illness, Van Gogh's creative discovery and expression of color cannot be denied. The colors in his paintings are relatively unrestrained and exaggerated, which deeply influenced the Expressionism and Fauvist paintings of the 20th century.

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