Vincent van Gogh

He painted many series of sunflowers. There are 3 paintings with fifteen sunflowers in the vase. Also a set of 2 paintings with twelve sun flowers in the vase. He first painted the twelve series. There is also a painting with 3 sunflowers in vase and one of 5 sunflowers in vase. the 5 sunflowers in vase was destroyed in the second world war by a fire on the 6th august 1945.
Vincent Van Gogh seemed to have quite a personal attachment to the sunflower. In the year before his death he wrote to his brother Theo, "It is a kind of a painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it.. You know the peony is Jeannis, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own." In many letters to his brother, he spoke glowingly of the richness of color that he saw in the Sunflowers, and his own desire to paint them before they quickly faded. (as quoted originally by Marc Eldo Tralbaut)


Answer 2:
He made 7 paintings of sunflowers in a vase, and three of single sunflowers.

He gave many paintings to his brother, but not as gifts but in order sell them at the art dealer's where Theo van Gogh worked.

Vincent van Gogh made a self portrait of himself with a severed ear. He had a severed ear because he had cut it off as a gift to give to his girlfriend to show how much he cared for her.

Vincent Van Gogh, who had several periods of mental illness throughout his life, painted "The Starry Night" in 1889 while in a sanitorium at St. Remy-de-Provence in France. The painting is based on the view from his window there.

Starry Night.

He lived for it.

First of all his brother Theo who gave Vincent a place to live.

Then, of course, all the painters of the time, as Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin.

And he was taught by a good painter, Fernand Cormon.

There are many ways to be successful in life. Van Gogh lived a full life, was loved by his brother Theo before passing away at age 37. He had a difficult life of depression, and was not well known for his paintings during his lifetime. Still, he produced works that later painters followed in the impressionistic style.

Heavy distortion

First in Holland and Belgium.
Then in France: Paris, Arles, S:t Rémy, Auvers.
In Holland, Belgium and France. Most of the time in France.

Vincent Van Gogh previously held positions as a bookstore clerk, an art salesman, and a preacher between 1860 and 1880. Did you know that before he became the Führer of Germany, Adolf Hitler once tried his hand as an artist?

No because he did not get married

However there were some speculations that he had a child with the prostitute he lived with, Sien (some further reading here: http://thegirlwithgreatexpectations.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/sien-and-van-gogh-a-significant-episode-in-his-controversial-life/ ) but they had not been acquainted long enough by the time she gave birth, so it was imposible for him to be the father.

He didn't. He worked for other artists and soon decided to become one himself. He sort of taught himself in a way.

He smoked a pipe.

Painting was his hobby - Van Gogh suffered from mental illness and was unable to hold down a regular job so his brother supported him during his lifetime.

He, like all painters at the time, used oils. He also sketched in pencil and whatnot.

Van Gogh did influence Whitley and Whitley did appropiate an image of Van Gogh's into one of Whitley's artworks. Why? Well he must have liked how Van Gogh used the subjective frame by putting all his emotions and experiences into his work.

when becoming a painter Van gogh was not famous, his talent was only recognised when he was dead. He is known through history as the man who mad his mark by using original yet tradition fetchers in his art work. Another thing is that he is famous for chopping off his ear and some say he did this for his assistant was screaming at him so much that he went mad and chopped off the ear he screamed in. But that must be looked into further and is not a solid answer.

A signed Van Gaard 202c painting is worth about $1,250 today. This can fluctuate from day to day, and can also depend on what kind of condition the painting is in.

This allowed artists to create highly detailed paintings.

No, Pablo Picasso did not paint The Scream. In fact Edvard Munch painted it.

Trying to live is a pregnant prostitute in the Hague.

Being fired from work as a preacher in Belgium.

Moving to Paris and meeting famous artists.

Moving to Arles, sharing a house with Paul Gauguin.

Cutting off part of one ear.

Being a patient at an asylum in Saint-Rémy.