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Vincent Van Gogh

  • First drawing

    First drawing
    This was his first drawing which he made at the age of 27.It was a copy of the Sower by Jean-François Millet. This drawling is based on a black and white print of the painting.
    pen, pencil, ink, brush and watercolour on paper.
  • Early works of 1881

    Early works of 1881
    -Still Life with Cabbage and Clogs
    1881
    Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam -Crouching Boy with Sickle, Black chalk and watercolor
    1881
    Kröller-Müller Museum, Netherlands -Woman Sewing Watercolor 1881-82
    Amsterdam
  • Period: to

    art pieces 1881-1882

    During this time, Vincent Van Gogh made 26 pieces
  • The potato eaters

    The potato eaters
    The Potato Eaters is an oil painting which Van Gogh painted on April 1885 in the Netherlands. It is in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
    The original oil sketch of the painting is at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, and he also made lithographs of the image, which are held in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The painting is considered to be one of Van Gogh's masterpieces.
  • 2 cut sunflowers

    2 cut sunflowers
    Van Gogh admired Japanese art and began to paint vibrant sunflowers having first seen them blooming with brilliant yellow in the gardens around Montmartre from the summer of 1887 .
  • The yellow house

    The yellow house
    The Yellow House ,is an 1888 oil painting by the 19th-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh. The house was the right wing of 2 Place Lamartine, Arles, France, where, in 1888, Van Gogh rented four rooms.
  • Almond Blossoms

    Almond Blossoms
    Almond Blossoms is a group of several paintings made in 1888 and 1890 by Vincent van Gogh in ,southern France of blossoming almond trees. Flowering trees were special to van Gogh. They represented awakening and hope. He enjoyed them aesthetically and found joy in painting flowering trees.
    The works reflect the influence of Impressionism, Divisionism, and Japanese woodcuts.
    Almond Blossom was made to celebrate the birth of his nephew and namesake, son of his brother Theo and sister-in-law Jo.
  • Starry night ... a masterpiece

    Starry night ... a  masterpiece
    The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting which he painted in 1889, it shows the view from the window of his asylum room just before sunrise, with the addition of an imaginary village.The Starry Night is one of the most recognized paintings in Western art.
    The truth is that Van Gogh believed that starry night was a faliure . The painting was one of van Gogh's late works, as he committed suicide the following year.
  • The last painting

    The last painting
    Wheatfield with Crows is a July 1890 painting by Vincent van Gogh. It has been cited by several critics as one of his greatest works. It is commonly stated that this was van Gogh's final painting. However, art historians are uncertain as to which painting was van Gogh's last. The evidence of his letters suggests that Wheatfield with Crows was completed around 10 July 1890 ,he painted this to express extreme loneliness and sadness.
    Vincent Van Gogh died on the 29th of July 1890 .