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Famous artist Vincent Van Gogh's portraits and
self portraits |
Self-portrait with
Dark Felt Hat |
Self-portrait with
Pipe |
Vincent Van Gogh
selfportrait |
Portrait of Pere
Tanguy |
Self-portrait with
Grey Felt Hat |
Agostina
Segatori Sitting in the Cafe du Tambourin |
Van Gogh Self-portrait
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Self-portrait with
Straw Hat |
Van Gogh Self portrait
with Grey Felt Hat |
Van Gogh Woman Sitting
by a Cradle |
Van Gogh
Self-portrait, Paris |
Van Gogh Self-portrait |
Van Gogh selfportrait |
Van Gogh Self portrait |
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Vincent van Gogh,
for whom color was the chief symbol of
expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland.
The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious
and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly
emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between
1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become
an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and
unhappy romances and had worked
unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore in the
Borinage. He remained in Belgium to study art,
determined to give happiness by creating beauty. |
Self portrait with
Straw Hat and Pipe |
Van Gogh’s Self-portrait |
Van Gogh Self-portrait |
Van Gogh Self-portrait |
Self-portrait with
Straw Hat |
Selfportrait with
Straw Hat |
Gogh Self-portrait
with Straw Hat |
Van Gogh Portrait of
Pere Tanguy |
Self-portrait with a
Japanese Print |
Self-portrait, Paris,
Autumn 1887 |
Italian Woman
(Agostian Segatori) |
Van Gogh Portrait of
Pere Tanguy |
Van Gogh selfportraits |
Van Gogh portraits |
Van Gogh Self portrait
with Straw Hat |
Van Gogh Self-portrait
with Grey Felt Hat |
Van Gogh Self-portrait
in Front of the Easel |
Van Gogh La Mousme,
Sitting |
Portrait of Postman
Joseph Roulin |
Portrait of Patience
Escalier |
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The works of his
early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply
lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is
"The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van
Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the
works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese
prints. In 1886 he went to Paris to join his
brother Theo, the manager of Goupil's gallery.
In Paris, van Gogh studied with Cormon,
inevitably met Pissarro, Monet, and Gauguin, and
began to lighten his very dark palette and to
paint in the short brushstrokes of the
Impressionists. His nervous temperament made him
a difficult companion and night-long discussions
combined with painting all day undermined his
health. |
Van Gogh Self-portrait
Dedicated to Paul Gauguin |
Van Gogh Portrait of Eugene Boch |
Van Gogh Portrait of Eugene Boch |
Portrait of Milliet,
Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves |
Van Gogh Portrait of
Artist's Mother |
Van Gogh L Arlesienne
Madame Ginoux with Books |
Van Gogh Self portrait |
Van Gogh The Schoolboy Camille Roulin
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Van Gogh Portrait of
Armand Roulin |
Van Gogh Portrait of
Armand Roulin |
Van Gogh Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and
Pipe |
Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Felix Rey |
Van Gogh La Berceuse (Augustine Roulin) |
Van Gogh Self-Portrait
with Bandaged Ear, Arles |
Van Gogh Self portrait 1889 |
Van Gogh SelfPortrait |
Van Gogh Self-portrait |
Portrait of Trabuc,
an Attendant at Saint-Paul Hospital |
Van Gogh self portrait |
Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Gachet |
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He decided to go
south to Arles where he hoped his friends would
join him and help found a school of art. Gauguin
did join him but with disastrous results. In a
fit of epilepsy, van Gogh pursued his friend
with an open razor, was stopped by Gauguin, but
ended up cutting a portion of his ear lobe off.
Van Gogh then began to alternate between fits of
madness and lucidity and was sent to the asylum
in Saint-Remy for treatment. In May of 1890, he
seemed much better and went to live in
Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr.
Gachet. Two months later he was dead, having
shot himself "for the good of all." During his
brief career he had sold one painting.
Van Gogh's finest works
were produced in less than three years in a
technique that grew more and more impassioned in
brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in
surface tension, and in the movement and
vibration of form and line. |
Van Gogh Portrait of Doctor Gachet |
Van Gogh Portrait of Adeline Ravoux |
Young Peasant Woman
with Straw Hat Sitting in the Wheat |
Young Girl Standing
against a Background of Wheat |
Van Gogh Marguerite Gachet at the Piano |
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Van Gogh's inimitable
fusion of form and content is powerful;
dramatic, lyrically rhythmic, imaginative, and
emotional, for the artist was completely
absorbed in the effort to explain either his
struggle against madness or his comprehension of
the spiritual essence of man and nature. |
Painting's Name
1- Self-portrait with
Dark Felt Hat, Paris, Spring 1886, 2- Self-portrait with
Pipe, Paris, Spring 1886, 3- Selfportrait, Paris, Autumn
1886, 4- Portrait of Pere Tanguy, Paris, Winter, 5-
Self-portrait with Grey Felt Hat, Paris, Winter, 6-
Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Cafe du Tambourin,
Paris, February - March 1887, 7- Self-portrait, Paris,
Spring 1887, 8- Self-portrait with Straw Hat, Paris,
March - April 1887, 9- Self portrait with Grey Felt Hat,
Paris, March - April 1887, 10- Woman Sitting by a
Cradle, Paris, Spring 1887, 11- Self-portrait, Paris,
Spring 1887, 12- Self-portrait, Paris, Spring - Summer
1887, 13- Self-portrait, Paris, Spring - Summer 1887,
14- Self portrait, Paris, Summer 1887, 15- Self portrait
with Straw Hat and Pipe, Paris, Summer 1887, 16-
Self-portrait, Paris, Summer 1887, 17- Self-portrait,
Paris, Summer 1887, 18- Self-portrait, Paris, Summer
1887, 19- Self-portrait with Straw Hat, Paris, Summer
1887, 20- Self-portrait with Straw Hat 2, Paris, Summer
1887, 21- Self-portrait with Straw Hat 3, Paris, Summer
1887, 22- Portrait of Pere Tanguy, Paris, Autumn 1887,
23- Self-portrait with a Japanese Print, Paris, December
1887, 24- Self-portrait, Paris, Autumn 1887, 25- Italian
Woman (Agostian Segatori), Paris, December 1887, 26-
Portrait of Pere Tanguy, Paris, Winter 1887, 27-
Self-portrait, Paris, Winter 1887, 28- Self-portrait,
Paris, Winter 1887, 29- Self-portrait with Straw Hat 4,
Paris, Winter 1887, 30- Self-portrait with Grey Felt
Hat, Paris, Winter 1887, 31- Self-portrait in Front of
the Easel, Paris, early 1888, 32- The Seated Zouave,
Arles, June 1888, 33- La Mousme, Sitting, Arles, July
1888, 34- Portrait of Postman Joseph Roulin, Arles,
early August 1888, 36- Portrait of Patience Escalier,
Arles, August 1888, 37- Self-portrait (Dedicated to Paul
Gauguin), Arles, September 1888, 38- Portrait of Eugene
Boch, Arles, September 1888, 39- Portrait of Milliet,
Second Lieutenant of the Zouaves, Arles, late September
1888, 40- Portrait of Artist's Mother, Arles, October
1888, 41- L Arlesienne Madame Ginoux with Books,
Arles, November 1888, 42- Self-portrait, Arles,
November - December 1887, 43- The Schoolboy Camille
Roulin, Sainte-Remy, November - December 1888, 44-
Portrait of Armand Roulin, Arles, November - December
1888, 45-Portrait of Armand Roulin, Arles, November -
December 1888, 46- Self-portrait with Bandaged Ear and
Pipe, Arles, January 1889, 47- Portrait of Doctor Felix
Rey, Arles, January 1889, 48- La Berceuse (Augustine
Roulin), Arles, January 1889, 49- Self-Portrait with
Bandaged Ear, Arles, January 1889, 50-Self-Portrait,
Saint-Remy, late August 1889, 51- SelfPortrait, Saint
Remy, September 1889 52- Self-portrait, Saint-Remy,
September 1889, 53- Portrait of Trabuc, an Attendant at
Saint-Paul Hospital, Sainte-Remy, September 1889, 54-
Self Portrait, Saint-Remy, September 1889, 55- Portrait
of Doctor Gachet 1 Auvers-sur-Oise June 1890, 56-
Portrait of Doctor Gachet, Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890,
57- Portrait of Adeline Ravoux, Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890
June, 58- Young Peasant Woman with Straw Hat Sitting in
the Wheat, Auvers-sur-Oise, late June 1890, 59- Young
Girl Standing against a Background of Wheat,
Auvers-sur-Oise, late June 1890, 60- Marguerite Gachet
at the Piano, Auvers-sur-Oise, June 1890
Flowers and nuturmorts
See also: Sunflowers (series of
paintings)
Van Gogh painted several versions of landscapes with
flowers, as seen in View of Arles with Irises, and
paintings of flowers, such as Irises, Sunflowers,lilacs,
roses, oleanders and other flowers. Some of the
paintings of flowers reflect his interests in the
language of color and also in Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock
prints.
View of Arles with Irises (1888), Van Gogh Museum,
Amsterdam
Irises (1889), Getty Center, Los AngelesHe completed two
series of sunflowers: the first while he was in Paris in
1887 and the later during his stay in Arles the
following year. The first set show the flowers set in
ground. In the second set, they are dying in vases.
However, the 1888 paintings were created during a rare
period of optimism for the artist. He intended them to
decorate a bedroom where Paul Gauguin was supposed to
stay in Arles that August, when the two would create the
community of artists Van Gogh had long hoped for. The
flowers are rendered with thick brushstrokes (impasto)
and heavy layers of paint.
In an August 1888 letter to Theo, he wrote,
"I am hard at it, painting with the enthusiasm of a
Marseillais eating bouillabaisse, which won't surprise
you when you know that what I'm at is the painting of
some sunflowers. If I carry out this idea there will be
a dozen panels. So the whole thing will be a symphony in
blue and yellow. I am working at it every morning from
sunrise on, for the flowers fade so quickly. I am now on
the fourth picture of sunflowers. This fourth one is a
bunch of 14 flowers ... it gives a singular effect."
The series is perhaps his best known and most widely
reproduced. In recent years, there has been debate
regarding the authenticity of one of the paintings, and
it has been suggested that this version may have been
the work of Émile Schuffenecker or of Paul Gauguin.Most
experts, however, conclude that the work is genuine.
Wheat fields
Wheatfield with Crows (1890), Van
Gogh Museum, AmsterdamVan Gogh made several painting
excursions during visits to the landscape around Arles.
He drew a number of paintings featuring harvests, wheat
fields and other rural landmarks of the area, including
The Old Mill (1888); a good example of a picturesque
structure bordering the wheat fields beyond.It was one
of seven canvases sent to Pont-Aven on October 4, 1888
as exchange of work with Paul Gauguin, Emile Bernard,
Charles Laval, and others. At various times in his life,
Van Gogh painted the view from his window—at The Hague,
Antwerp, Paris. These works culminated in The Wheat
Field series, which depicted the view he could see from
his adjoining cells in the asylum at Saint-Rémy.
Writing in July 1890, Van Gogh said that he had become
absorbed "in the immense plain against the hills,
boundless as the sea, delicate yellow".He had become
captivated by the fields in May when the wheat was young
and green. The weather worsened in July, and he wrote to
Theo of "vast fields of wheat under troubled skies",
adding that he did not "need to go out of my way to try
and express sadness and extreme loneliness".By August,
he had painted the crops both young and and
during both dark and bright weather. A depiction of the
golden wheat in bright sunlight was to be his final
painting, along with his usual easel and paints he had
carried a pistol with him that day. |
