Who is Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔx] (listen); 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful and, struggling with severe depression and poverty, committed suicide at the age of 37.Van Gogh was born into an upper-middle-class family. As a child he was seri...
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- The best way to know God is to love many things.
- But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
- What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
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Funghigallery: 4/ vincent van gogh too explored dreams in his work a lot. his painting "starry night" is often interpreted as a representation of the artist's dreams and his emotional state.
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