Vincent Willem Van Gogh

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1. Vincent Willem van Gogh .
30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890

2. Vincent Willem van
Gogh was born in
Groot-Zundert, a
village in the
southern
Netherlands.Van Gogh
was the son of Anna
Cornelia Carbentus
and Theodorus van
Gogh, who was a
minister of the
Durch Reformed
Church.Van Gogh was
the son of Anna
Cornelia Carbentus
and Theodorus van
Gogh,who was a
minister of the Durch
Reformed Church.

3. His paintings
and drawings
include some
of the
world's best
known,most
popular and
most
expensive
pieces.

5. Van Gogh
spent his
early adult
life working
for a firm
of art
dealers.
After a
brief spell
as a
teacher, he
became a
missionary
worker in a
very poor
mining
region. He
did not
embark upon
a career as
an artist
until 1880.

6. He produced more
than 2,000 works,
including around
900 paintings and
1,100 drawings and
sketches, during
the last ten years
of his life. Most
of his best-known
works were produced
in the final two
years of his life,
during which time
he cut off part of
his left ear
following a
breakdown in his
friendship with
Paul Gauguin.

9. Nevertheless, Van Gogh
persevered with his
work. He improved the
lighting of his
atelier (studio) by
installing variable
shutters, and
experimented with a
variety of drawing
materials. For more
than a year he worked
hard on single figures
—highly elaborated
studies in "black and
white," which at the
time gained him only
criticism. Nowadays
they are appreciated
as his first
masterpieces.

11. In spring 1883, he
embarked on multi-figure
compositions, based on
the drawings. He had some
of them photographed, but
when his brother
commented that they
lacked liveliness and
freshness, Vincent
destroyed them and turned
to oil painting.

12. Still Life with
Absinthe.(1887)
Medical theories have
even been proposed to
explain Van Gogh's use
of the colour yellow.
One theory holds that
Van Gogh's colour vision
might have been affected
by his love of absinthe,
a liquor that contains a
neurotoxin called
thujonet. High doses of
thujone can cause
xanthopsia: seeing
objects in yellow.
However,a 1991 study
indicated that an
absinthe drinker would
become unconscious from
the alcohol content long
before consuming enough
thujone to develop
yellow vision.

21. Vincent van Gogh, 1876,
(photographer unknown)
Vincent and Theo
van Gogh’s graves
at the cemetery of
Auvers-sur-Oise.
Roelof.