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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890), Dutch painter who exemplified the idea of artist as tortured genius. His paintings are characterized by thick brush strokes, brilliant colors, and jagged lines, through which Van Gogh expressed his emotional response to his subjects rather than providing an accurate description of them. As a result he became a leader in the development of expressionism in painting.
Born, the son of a minister
Vincent Willem van Gogh,1853-1890
Van Gogh was born near Brabant, the son of a minister. 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 Badinage miners.
During the nearly two years he spent living among the miners and sharing their poverty, he lost his faith, but he found in art—through the charcoal drawings he made of the landscapes and people around him—the possibility of a new career. Van Gogh was mostly self-taught as an artist. He copied from prints, especially those of Jean François Millet, a popular French painter of rural life.
Although Van Gogh’s works failed to find an appreciative audience during his lifetime, their popularity rose steadily during the 20th century. His paintings brought record prices at auctions: His Portrait of Dr. Gashes (1890), for example, sold at Christie's in 1990 for $ million. Exhibitions of van Gogh’s works have proved to be enormous crowd-pleasers
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Theodorus Van Gogh
Theo van Gogh, entitled Theodore , is Vincent van Gogh's younger brother, is a essful art businessmen. He admires his older brother Vincent van Gogh very much.
However, communicating with van Gogh was a very difficult task; even in the time before van Go