VINCENT VAN GOGH MASTER OF POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING CHAPTER ONE 4 WHO WAS VINCENT VAN GOGH Self-Portrait as a Painter is one of many pictures that van Gogh painted of himself Vincent van Gogh was one of the world’s most famous artists During his lifetime he sold only one painting Today his paintings sell for millions of dollars Van Gogh lived in Europe in the 1800s He began painting around 4
5 WHO WAS VINCENT VAN GOGH 1880 Before that he had worked many different jobs Van Gogh painted for just 10 years but in those 10 years he created more than 800 paintings and 700 drawings He moved throughout Europe during that The Red Vineyard shows workers picking grapes under a bright sun The only painting van Gogh sold during his lifetime is titled The Red Vineyard Quick Fact
VINCENT VAN GOGH MASTER OF POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTING 6 SELF-PORTRAITS are paintings or drawings that the artist makes of himself or herself Vocabulary time meeting many great artists along the way In 1888 he moved to the town of Arles in France where he did some of his best work As an artist van Gogh is known for his colorful SELF-PORTRAITS and paintings of flowers the coun tryside and working people He painted with great speed and deep emotion He squeezed his tubes of oil paint directly on the canvas so that each stroke of the brush could be seen This way of painting gave his work a unique feeling of life and movement Van Gogh painted View of Arles with Irises while living in Arles France
7 WHO WAS VINCENT VAN GOGH Van Gogh had periods of great energy but he also felt sad and nervous throughout his life Even while dealing with difficult emotions he kept painting He is remembered as an important artist whose unusual way of painting helped change the way people look at both art and the world Van Gogh loved sunflowers and created many paintings of them
