VAN GOGH PRESENTATION

Vincent van Gogh

PRESENTAtion

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Index

1. who is he?

4. his most famous paintings

5. curiosity

2. his life

3. HOW HE BECAME FAMOUS

6. thanks

WHO IS HE?

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter.

He was the author of almost nine hundred paintings and more than a thousand drawings. We also have many of his sketches that were not completed and the many notes probably intended to imitate Japanese artistic drawings.

HIS LIFE

he was born on may 30, 1853

He became famous only after his death in 1890. From the village of Groot Zundert, where he was born, to the city of Aja, where he began working as an art dealer, in London, where he lived for almost two years from 1873. Also in Amsterdam, where he began to study theology, in Brussels where he finally began to study drawing, and in Anversa where he attended the Academy for a while.

<- this is his self-portrait

HIS LIFE

In 1886 the most important step: the transfer to Paris by the beloved brother Theo. In Paris he discovered many things, where he met Monet, Degas, Renoir and Toulouse-Lautrec, he discovered impressionism. He also changes his painting, where he uses more vibrant and colorful colors.

Van Gogh also began to draw nature, especially in the spring. He also painted the "yellow house" (beside the presentation), and lived with the painter Paul Gauguin.

HIS LIFE

Happiness doesn’t last long, because the two painters, so different in the way they paint, soon come into conflict and Vincent is deeply hurt. Vincent, who had serious mental problems, cut off his ear.

However, depressive crises are becoming more and more frequent and the people of Arles now see him as a madman. On his own initiative he chose to be admitted to the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Rémy. It was 1889.

HIS LIFE

last moment of his life

Vincent remained in Saint-Rémy for more than a year and for him it was a period of serenity. He draws, paints, continues living with his brother, feels safe and secure. His last trip was Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, where he found a new home and a new friend, Dr Gachet, and more landscapes, meadows, fields. In July 1890, he painted a cornfield with three paths and a rough sky and crows annoyed him, and shot himself in the chest.

HOW HE BECAME FAMOUS

HOW HE BECAME FAMOUS

Johanna Bonger, his sister-in-law, cultured and passionate about art, manages to graduate and this, in her time, was not easy. Her husband died shortly after Van Gogh and Johanna took over his apartment in Paris, where she found 200 paintings by the artist. It is at this point that Johanna begins a real promotion activity that also passes through the publication of a book in which she publishes the correspondence between the two brothers, Vincent and Theo. There followed exhibitions and other initiatives that made known the art and deep sensitivity of his brother-in-law, Vincent Van Gogh.

HIS MOST FAMOUS PAINTINGS

CAMPO DI GRANO CON VOLO DI CORVI

RAMO DI MANDORLO IN FIORE

LA NOTTE STELLATA

TERRAZZA DEL CAFFÈ LA SERA

GIRASOLI

AUTORITRATTO

CURIOSITY

Originally, Van Gogh intended to become a pastor and worked as a lay preacher in Borinage, Belgium. Only after he was fired from this job did he decide that his future would be painting, and in fact he started before the age of 27.

In addition to creating hundreds of works of art, Van Gogh wrote almost as many letters and postcards. These often included early sketches of many of his most famous masterpieces.

When Van Gogh painted his most famous work, The Starry Night, he thought he had created nothing good. Indeed, Van Gogh considered himself and many of his paintings to be failures and is said to have sold only one painting in his life.

CURIOSITY

To paint at night, and brighten the canvas and palette, Van Gogh often wore a straw hat studded with lighted candles. Various sources tell of having seen him working in some cafes with the strange garment on his head, and candles stuck in the brim or fixed with some clothespins.

Vincent Van Gogh ate yellow paint because he believed it would bring him the happiness that the color emanated within him.

Vincent did not like to be photographed, he believed that the photographs, compared to the paintings, were devoid of life and character. There is only one picture of him: a Van Gogh just nineteen.

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