{"id":12848,"date":"2021-10-04T13:09:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T19:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2022-08-07T17:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T23:58:38","slug":"a-small-list-of-great-artists-12-vincent-van-gogh-dutch-1853-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chriswisniaarts.com\/blog\/archives\/12848","title":{"rendered":"A Small List of Great Artists \u2013 Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

VINCENT VAN GOGH<\/strong> (Dutch, 1853-1890) is one of the great, tragic\/romantic myths of an artist of all time \u2013 the mad, misunderstood genius, never appreciated in his lifetime, who dedicated his every waking moment to his craft; whose inner demons drove him to cut off his own ear in a fury, and later shoot himself in a wheat field, dying at age 37, after years of mental illness, depression, alcoholism, and poverty. When I was in elementary school, a teacher told me how he cut off his ear with a razor when the woman he loved left him, and he gave it to her. I still hear this disturbing romance-and-tragedy-tinged story passed on, although it\u2019s untrue; he cut a piece of his ear off in a state of manic depression following a fight with his friend Gauguin, then gave it to a prostitute at a brothel. Van Gogh is often portrayed as a simple-minded lunatic, but if you read his letters, you see a man articulate and intelligent, complicated, wholly dedicated to art and artfully self-taught in studying masters and improving his craft, who painted with a passion that we can assume was unhealthily obsessive, neglecting his physical health. In the ten years from when he decided to become an artist until his death, he created 900 paintings! He only painted from life \u2013 still lifes, self-portraits, landscapes and street scenes  – and yet nothing he painted looked like what we see in the world around us.  Is this how he saw?? His use of brush strokes and color is bizarre and intense and rhythmic and exciting and one-of-a-kind. Possibly the most influential artist of all time, but definitely the most famous of them all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

see Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

see Van Gogh’s Portraits of Roulin<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[Extra special thanks to www.art-vangogh.com<\/a>, a fantastic website with an immense gallery of Van Gogh’s work as well as some great biographical info!]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Sunflowers<\/em> (1887), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles <\/em>(1888), The Phillips Collection<\/a>, Washington, D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Shoes <\/em>(1888)Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Cypresses<\/em> (1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Road Menders<\/em> (1889), The Phillips Collection<\/a>, Washington, D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Starry Night <\/em>(1889), Museum of Modern Art<\/a>, New York City <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a> , Wheat Field with Cypresses<\/em> (June\u2013July 1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> , New York City<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, The Church of Auvers-sur-Oise – seen from the bedside<\/em> (1890), Mus\u00e9e d’Orsay<\/a> , Paris<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Chris with Vincent van Gogh<\/a>, Wheat Field at Auvers with White House<\/em> (June 1890), The Phillips Collection<\/a>, Washington, D.C.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n

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