• 
• 1 answer

His subjects were taken from his surroundings: people, landscapes, still lifes, ... Not from world affairs.

• 
• 1 answer

Van Gogh had quite a bit of training - some formal, but mostly informal.

Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties. He spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, traveling between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught for a time in England. (One of his early aspirations was to become a pastor and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where he began to sketch people from the local community). In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists. He had already started painting, but up to that point he was strictly self-taught.

On the recommendation of his brother Theo, he traveled to Brussels in 1880 to study with the prominent Dutch artist Willem Roelofs, who persuaded him, in spite of his aversion to formal schools of art, to attend the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, where he registered on November 15, 1880. At the Académie , he studied anatomy and the standard rules of modeling and perspective.

In January 1882, he settled in The Hague where he called on his cousin-in-law, Anton Mauve (1838-88) who was a Dutch realist painter and a leading member of the Hague School. Mauve introduced him to painting in both oil and watercolor and lent him money to set up a studio.

Despite his rejection of academic teaching, he took the higher-level admission exams at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in 1885, and in January 1886, matriculated in painting and drawing. Van Gogh traveled to Paris in March 1886, to study at Fernand Cormon's studio.

In addition to his limited formal training van Gogh socialized with, exchanged ideas and methods with and learned from many of the prominent artists of his time. Vincent's brother Theo was an art dealer who stocked his gallery with paintings from other prominent contemporary artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. While he lived with Theo, Vincent was able to study their work. Theo introduced Vincent to Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, Camille Pissarro and Georges Seurat. Vincent also was friends with Émile Bernard, Honoré Daumier, and several other lesser known artists of his time.

• 
• 
• 2 answers

To express his love to the beloved, he cut off his ear (in a moment of rage with a razor) and he shot himself, died just after two days the shot.

• 
• 1 answer

Vincent van Gogh 1857-1890.

I am afraid this answer is incorrect. He was born in 1853 instead.

• 
• 1 answer

Animal hair.

• 
• 1 answer

He paved the way for the expressionists.

• 
• 1 answer

No, he did not, but he used it to good effect.

• 
• 1 answer

• 
• 1 answer

A painting by Van Gogh which was destroyed in WWII

• 
• 1 answer

No, he never went blind.

Vincent was an oddity,... like Rembrandt, but Rembrandt I think did go partially blind in his old age before he died. "It took time for Vincent to begin to break and penetrate the general shell. The MFA experts just sit there behind their shells, and stick to it like frogs to their ponds. They will not answer, for they can not think or see for themselves. The shells that they live in have to see, speak and act for them. This whole MFA world is made up of this cursed shell,... only artist's like Vincent worked against it. Vincent always started from the beginning, like standing on the far side of his pond calling for the others to come over and join him. Of course it was irritating for the MFA experts! How could it be other wise, when he stood looking down on their ponds with solid earth beneath his feet? Vincent said white when others said black,... he laughed why they cried. Perhaps he did this for only fun, and because he was one while the others were the whole world."

"Would Vincent ever penetrate the MFA world completely? Woulds he ever draw these men and women of the MFA expertise unto him, even though he gave his life to do it. Or would he come up against a more impenetrable shell and finally, worst of all, the approbation of the masses? They say if the world took him seriously , he would be regarded as its destroyer. He alone. No wonder he aggravated them, when he was a thorn in the side of mankind. Cast him out,... Kill him! Bury the traitor out of sight, under the shell! No, don't beat him, he's not worth it. Ha ha, let a mad man like that go on with his painting!"

• 
• 1 answer

Vincent Van Gogh's father's name was Theodorus Van Gogh the same as his closest brothers name to but he went by Theo so there was no confusion.

• 
• 1 answer

1- Margot Begemann, a neighbor fell in love with Vincent who rejected her causing her to try to commit suicide.

2- Vincent, so caught up in work cared very little about Reverend Theodorus Van Gogh's (Vincent's father) death in 1880.

3-May 8, 1889 Vincent coluntarily puts himself in an asylum.

4- Vincent eats paints & guzzles in suicide attempt on Dec 23, 1889

5- Only one painting was sold during his life time.

6- Vincent had an older brother Vincent van Gogh who died at birth.

7- Vincent shot himslef but didnt die until 2 days later at age 37.

8-Vincent wouldn't be famous if not for his brother's wife who sold all his paintings.

9-Vincent's nick name was Fou-Rou (crazy man)

10- It is said Vincent lost an ear but he only cut a piece of his ear lobe.

• 
• 1 answer

well Vincent shot him self and died two days later

• 
• 1 answer

Post-Impressionism.

• 
• 1 answer

He painted some of the world's best loved paintings. In the art world his work triggered Expressionism.

And made a lot of kids have to do a lot of research on him =.=!!

• 
• 1 answer

There are many Vincent Fields out there, but given that the question was asked in the martial arts category, I'll give it a bet that it is the one who wrote a book on leg locks. I understand he studied and taught Russian Sambo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay Thai Kickboxing, and Wrestling. He has a number of DVDs on techniques available.

• 
• 1 answer

In Holland :Groot-Zundert, Zevenbergen, Tilburg,

Amsterdam, Laeken, Borinage, Etten, Cuesmes, the Hague, Drenthe, Nuenen, London,

Belgium: Antwerp,

In France: Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy, Auvers.

• 
• 1 answer

Yes, Vincent van Gogh cut his left earlobe off December 24, 1888, because he had had an argument with one of his friends. The argument may have been whether Paul Gauguin was going to leave Arles, where they had been working together.

Nobody was with Vincent van Gogh when he cut off his ear. He used a razor (a very sharp kind of knife) to cut it off; he was in deep depression after his friend Paul Gauguin had been mad at him.

Van Gogh suffered from mental illness. He gave the blood-covered part of his ear to a prostitute he knew, not to his loved one, whom he didn't have. Later he shot himself and died in his room in Arles.

• 
• 1 answer

Irises

• 
• 1 answer

he spoke french dutch and english! AND GERMAN

• 
• 
• 2 answers

Very beautiful works, I like his style. My favorite painting is Wheatfield with Crows. I also had the possibility to visit the Van Gogh's museum in Amsterdam and enjoyed it a lot.

• 
• 1 answer

Click link below to see some self portraits.

• 
• 1 answer

He was not gay. He tried several times to attract women, but never succeeded.

• 
• 1 answer

Many. Among them are Portrait of Dr. Gachet (the second most expensive painting at auctions), The Sunflowers, Starry Night, and Cafe Terrace at Night. He is also well known for his many self portraits, and a dark painting The Potato Eaters

• 
• 1 answer

Yes, He did before he was taken as a captive (before he was going to be crucified)