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Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Tree roots, 1890 (detail) Van Gogh Museum (Vincent van Gogh Foundation) From Amsterdam to New York and Tokyo: Vincent van Gogh's fame spans the world. For experts and amateurs alike, as well as artists, Van Gogh is the most driven artist of all time, the man who immersed himself body and soul in his art, who introduced passion in his brushwork and emotion in his palette. Due to his dramatic life, moreover, he became the prototype of the impassioned, hard-working but misunderstood and melancholy artist. His impact on the further development of painting was tremendous. It may safely be assumed that all 20th-century artists knew Van Gogh's work and that virtually all of them were directly or indirectly influenced by him. The exhibition Go gh Modern encompassed work by important post-war artists whose art is inconceivable without Van Gogh's example. Paintings were exhibited that reveal Van Gogh 's inspiration in terms of style and expression. In addition, a selection has been made of artists who, like their 19th-century predecessor, gave art a new direction and whose attitudes and views were nothing short of extreme. The presentation encompassed paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and Warhol. The public could experience just how topical Van Gogh's art is, and how it continues to mark contemporary art. Looking at the work of his 20th-century colleagues also refined our understanding of Van Gogh: what influence do his emulators exert on our observation of the original?

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Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is famous for his brave use of intense primary colours and thick brush strokes in his paintings. Vincent Van Gogh suffered from a serious mental illness during the later parts of his career. It was during this time that he produced some of this greatest works. His paintings are primarily inspired by the Impressionist but Vincent manages to project more expression and emotion into his paintings. In fits of madness, Vincent cut off his own right ear lobe. With his head still bandaged, he painted a self-portrait of himself. Vincent managed to instill a strange energy in the painting, that is both haunting and sympathetic. Eventually, Vincent admitted himself into an asylum where he continued to paint while he slipped further into insanity. When he took his life 1890, he had painted well over 800 paintings in total. After his death, his works became immensely popular and were sold for record-breaking sums of money. Today Vincent Van Gogh is regarded as one of the greatest painters of his time. < Back Works Books Websites

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Vincent Van Gogh's Works Here are some of Vincent Van Gogh's more famous works. Click on the links for pictures of his paintings. The Potato Eaters (1885) Cafe Terrace On The Place Du Forum (1888) Fourteen Sunflowers In A Vase (1888) Self-Portrait As An Artist (1888) The Starry Night (1889) • Note: < Back Works Books Websites

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Expressionism Art, Expressionism Artists, Vincent Van Gogh Expressionism Art Prints Vincent van Gogh, a genius to some and a madman to others, is often considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt. van Gogh's striking and exuberant paintings were all produced during a period of only ten years. His Post-Impressionist work hauntingly conveys through forceful colour, aggressive brushwork and contoured forms, the anguish of a mental illness that eventually resulted in suicide. After failing in both his career and love life, van Gogh turned inward, pursuing a position in the ministry. In 1880, disenchanted with priesthood, he discovered art as his new mission. His earliest works were scenes of peasant life, but after a trip to Paris in 1886, where he encountered the works of the Impressionists and the Japanese prints en vogue at the time, he dramatically transformed his style from darkly collared realism to vibrant expressionism. van Gogh moved to rural Arles, France in 1888, but continued to struggle with a nervous disorder and depression. He soon committed himself to an asylum at St. Remy. While hospitalised, he continued to paint and produced The Starry Night, one of his most compelling works. van Gogh spent the final year of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village north west of Paris. There, he painted feverishly to complete Houses at Auvers, which he worked on from a street near the home of his physician. He completed shortly before his death in 1890. Tormented by mental illness, van Gogh shot himself at the age of thirty-seven.

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Search 100,000+ top educational sites, lessons and more! Home Artists Found 600 ' Van Gogh, Vincent ' Web Sites. Also for ' Van Gogh, Vincent 244 Lesson Plans 12 Books 1 Software Title 7 Maps ... 3 Other Products Web Sites (1 - 10 of 600): WebMuseum: Gogh, Vincent van: The Asylum (cached) - Tree with Ivy in the Asylum Garden 1889 (270 Kb); Pencil, chalk, reed pen, and brown ink on Ingres paper, 62 x 47 cm (24 x 18 1/4 in); Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, Trees in the Asylum Garden 1889 (260 Kb); Oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm (28 3/... Grades: Cache Report Link Problem Add Comment Life And History Of Vincent van Gogh Grades: K-8 Cache Report Link Problem Add Comment WebMuseum: Gogh, Vincent van: Still Lifes with Sunflowers (cached) Grades: Cache Report Link Problem Add Comment WebMuseum: Gogh, Vincent van: Irises (cached) - View of Arles with Irises 1888 (140 Kb); 54 x 65 cm. Irises 1889 (280 Kb); Oil on canvas, 71 x 93 cm (28 x 36 3/4 in); Payson Gallery of Art, Portland, Maine (or Getty Museum, California). Irises (pink/gree) May 1890; Oil on canvas, 73.7 x 92.1 cm... Grades: Cache Report Link Problem Add Comment Vincent van Gogh: Straight from the Heart - This unique CDrom documents Van Gogh's entire life and work. Created by an artist, it has 4 hours of spoken excerpts from Vincent's letters to Theo and over 900 paintings, drawings and photos.

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home museum biography exhibitions ... e-cards Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh is born on March 30, 1853, in Zundert, in the south of the Netherlands, as the oldest son of Theodorus van Gogh, a preacher and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Four years later, in 1857,Vincent's favorite brother, Theodorus (Theo), is born. Vincent van Gogh at age of 13. In June 1873, Vincent is moved to Goupil in London. Daily contact with works of art kindles his appreciation of paintings and drawings. He admires the realistic paintings of peasant life by Jean-Fran§ois Millet and Jules Breton. Gradually Vincent loses interest in his work and turns to the Bible. He is transferred to Paris, to London and Paris again, to then be dismissed from Goupil's in March 1876. Driven by a growing desire to help his fellow man, he decides to become a clergyman. Vincent van Gogh at age of 19. Vincent returns to England in 1876 to work as a teacher and assistant preacher at a boarding school. In November, Van Gogh delivers his first sermon. His interest in evangelical Christianity and ministering to the poor becomes obsessional. Due to a lack of professional perspectives, he returns to Amsterdam in 1877. When he is refused admittance in theology school, Vincent briefly enters a missionary school near Brussels and in December 1878 leaves for the Borinage, a coal-mining area in southern Belgium, to work as a lay preacher. Vincent identifies with the miners, sleeping on the floor and giving away his belongings. His extreme commitment draws disfavor from the church and he is dismissed.

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Press Releases Events 2001 Exhibit Schedule MoTTU Home FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 7, 2002 Artists Pay Homage to the Master Painter Van Gogh at the Museum of TTU LUBBOCK, TEXAS -The Museum of Texas Tech University is pleased to announce the opening of Homage to Van Gogh , an exhibition of works by contemporary artists paying tribute to the influences of Vincent van Gogh's art today. The exhibition will be on view from March 24 through May 5, 2002 , in the Museum, located at Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue. The exhibition contains 75 artworks by such artists as Lucien Clergue, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Larry Rivers, and many others. The works are done in homage to van Gogh's influence upon each artist's own works. The media used is as varied as the works themselves, each creator expressing his or her own views about Vincent van Gogh, the man and the artist. "At this very moment, someone, somewhere in the world is creating an artwork as tribute to Vincent van Gogh. Scorned, neglected and ridiculed in his lifetime, his example now reigns paramount as the starting point for all aspiring and budding artists. Acknowledgments and homage pour in from the most unlikely corners of society," comments Jeffrey Spalding, professor of art and director of the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. Spalding notes that as "An inveterate loner, van Gogh engendered no special protégés - no school of followers. Unlike Monet, Picasso, Matisse or Pollock no stylistic movement or second generation emerged to champion or extend the legacy of van Gogh's artistic vision. This is quite unexpected, since most artists emulate in some way the art of prior masters. Picasso proclaimed: 'All artists borrow; great artists steal.' Maybe here it is, simply: Genius prevails. The perfection of the resolution of van Gogh's own personal vision, closes out all would be stylistic bandits."

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Gogh, Vincent van Dr Paul Gachet (230 Kb) (thanks to Raymond Wai Ming Kwong and Mark Harden Gachet, Dr Paul (1828-1909) Perhaps one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Impressionism , he was a doctor who specialized in homeopathy, a psychiatrist, an engraver, a Darwinian, a Socialist and a consistently helpful and generous patron and friend to all those artists with whom he came into contact. As a young student in Paris he had frequented the Brasserie des Martyrs, and after concluding his medical studies at Montpellier he became a frequenter of the seminal Café Guerbois. He bought a house at Auvers-sur-Oise and, in his studio there, became an enthusiastic engraver, partly as a consequence of his earlier contacts with Daumier , Charles Méryon and Rodolphe Bresdin, artists whose styles were reflected in his own. He signed his works `Paul van Ryssel', deriving the surname from his native village near Lille. It was in this studio that several of the Impressionists took up etching: Cézanne produced there an etching of Guillaumin , as well as painting a number of flower pieces arranged in Delft vases for him by the doctor's wife. On the recommendation of

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[an error occurred while processing this directive] Teachers.Net Lesson Exchange #12. The Lost Works of Vincent van Gogh other, level: elementary Posted by Kyle Yamnitz ( kyle@coe.missouri.edu The Lesson Plans Page University of Missouri, USA Materials Required: Oil canvases (or manila paper), oil paints, paintbrushes, paint tins Activity Time: 2-3 class periods Concepts Taught: Art, Oil Painting, Art History (Vincent van Gogh) Art Lesson Plan Description of Class: This lesson is for a fifth grade art class consisting of 9 and 10 year old children. Students have done paintings with various types of paint, but have not used oil paints previously. However, in the previous class session they were allowed to experiment with oil paints. The class has also done some background studying on Vincent van Gogh and his works. They have also done color mixing with other paints. Topic: "The Lost Works of Vincent van Gogh" Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge about the life and works of Vincent van Gogh. They will also become aquainted with the use of oil paints and will be able to better identify with real artists by using their medium.

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Gogh, Vincent van Dr Paul Gachet Gachet, Dr Paul (1828-1909) Perhaps one of the most fascinating figures in the history of Impressionism , he was a doctor who specialized in homeopathy, a psychiatrist, an engraver, a Darwinian, a Socialist and a consistently helpful and generous patron and friend to all those artists with whom he came into contact. As a young student in Paris he had frequented the Brasserie des Martyrs, and after concluding his medical studies at Montpellier he became a frequenter of the seminal Café Guerbois. He bought a house at Auvers-sur-Oise and, in his studio there, became an enthusiastic engraver, partly as a consequence of his earlier contacts with Daumier , Charles Méryon and Rodolphe Bresdin, artists whose styles were reflected in his own. He signed his works `Paul van Ryssel', deriving the surname from his native village near Lille. It was in this studio that several of the Impressionists took up etching: Cézanne produced there an etching of Guillaumin , as well as painting a number of flower pieces arranged in Delft vases for him by the doctor's wife. On the recommendation of Pissarro , Gachet took Vincent van Gogh into his house in 1890, and it was in Auvers that he committed suicide. Gachet's great collection of paintings by all the major figures of the movement was given to the state by his son and is now in the Musée d'Orsay.

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Vincent van Gogh images and biography Early work (1881 - February 1888) Arles (February 1888 - May 1889) (May 1889- May 1890) Auvers-sur-Oise (May - July 1890) biography books posters articles ... online resources See also: The Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh on CD-ROM Van Gogh's Letters: The Complete Correspondence "Vincent van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. In 1869, he got a position at the art dealers, Goupil and Co. in The Hague, through his uncle, and worked with them until he was dismissed from the London office in 1873. He worked as a schoolmaster in England (1876), before training for the ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). After he failed to get a post in the Church, he went to live as an independent missionary among the Borinage miners. "He was largely self-taught as an artist, although he received help from his cousin, Mauve. His first works were heavily painted, mud-colored and clumsy attempts to represent the life of the poor (e.g. Potato-Eaters , 1885, Amsterdam), influenced by one of his artistic heroes, Millet . He moved to Paris in 1886, living with his devoted brother, Theo, who as a dealer introduced him to artists like

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showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Arts Business Entertainment Games ... More... On this page: Personalities Dictionary Encyclopedia Fine Arts WordNet Wikipedia Best of Web Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Vincent Van Gogh Personalities Source Vincent Van Gogh Artist Born: 30 March 1853 Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot) Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish; in a famous 1888 incident he slashed off his left earlobe with a razor. He is closely associated with the town of Arles in the south of France, where he created many of his greatest paintings. Among his best-known works are The Potato Eaters Starry Night (1889), and Irises (1889). He died in Auvers, France two days after shooting himself in the chest with a pistol. FOUR GOOD LINKS The Vincent Van Gogh Information Gallery All his paintings and drawings, nicely catalogued, plus related information and Web links

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Island of Freedom Phidias Donatello da Vinci Michelangelo ... Dali To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher. Blaise Pascal Home Theologians Philosophers Poets ... Siddhartha Vincent van Gogh Self Portrait PLACES: Vincent van Gogh Gallery Webmuseum: van Gogh Although almost wholly unknown during his brief lifetime, the painter Vincent Willem van Gogh is today probably the most widely known and appreciated representative of postimpressionism. His work became an important bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries; it was particularly influential in the evolution of both fauvism and German expressionism. Van Gogh clearly showed marked artistic talent even as a child, but neither he nor his family (his father was a Dutch clergyman) imagined that painting would become his career. Instead, at the age of 16, he went to work for Goupil and Company, an art gallery with which one of his uncles had long been associated; he was dismissed in 1876. Other false starts included a job in a Dordrecht bookstore during the spring of 1877, theological studies at the University of Amsterdam, and, from November 1878 to July 1879, service as a lay missionary in a coal-mining district in Belgium. In 1880, Vincent chose art as a vocation and became dependent on his brother for money. Indeed, for the next 10 years Theo, who had also gone to work for Goupil, sent an allowance to Vincent, encouraged him to work, and wrote regularly. Vincent's thinking during his short but prolific career (approximately 750 paintings, 1,600 drawings, 9 lithographs, and 1 etching) is well documented in more than 700 letters that he wrote to Theo and others.

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