Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30,1853 in the Netherlands he was one of six children. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter. In just over a decade, van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. Van Gogh was deeply religious in his younger years and he aspired be a pastor.
Throughout Van Gogh's life his brother Theo has been a very influential in his life he supported Van Gogh both emotionally and financially. Throughout Van Gogh’s lifetime has written over 800 letters and most of them where to his brother Theo.
In 1879 van Gogh worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium, where he began to sketch people from the local …show more content…
But when he moved to Paris he discovered the French Impressionists, and later on he then moved to the south of France and was influenced by the strong sunlight that was there. His paintings became brighter in color, and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style when he went to Aries in 1888. Towards the end of 1888 Van Gogh’s mental illness has gotten worse and he committed himself to an asylum in Saint Rémy de Provence It was in this asylum where he painted Starry Night which became his most popular work and is one of the most influential pieces in history. This is what i enjoy the most about Van Gogh and its the reason why he is one of my favorite artist is because i feel that his mental instability provided the frenzied source for the emotional renderings of his surroundings and imbued each image with a deeper psychological reflection. Van Gogh’s legacy lives on having left a lasting impact on the world of art. Van Gogh is now viewed as one of the most influential artists having helped lay the foundations of modern art. It truly baffles me that no one really appreciated his art until after his