Vincent van Gogh

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Vincent Willem van Gogh (IPA: vãn ɡɔɡ) Note 2, born March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert (Netherlands) and died July 29, 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise (France), is a Dutch painter and draftsman. His work full of naturalism, inspired by Impressionism and Pointillism, announces Fauvism and Expressionism.
Van Gogh grew up in a family of the old bourgeoisie. He first tries to make a career as an art dealer at Goupil & Cie. However, refusing to see art as a commodity, he is fired. He then aspires to become a pastor, but he fails the theology exams. At the approach of 1880, he turned to painting. During these years, he left the Netherlands for Belgium, then settled in France. Self-taught, Van Gogh nevertheless takes painting classes. Passionate, he continues to enrich his pictorial culture: he analyzes the work of the painters of the time, he visits museums and art galleries, he exchanges ideas with his painter friends, he studies Japanese prints, English engravings, etc. His painting reflects his research and the extent of his artistic knowledge. However, his life is peppered with crises that reveal his mental instability. One of them causes suicide, at the age of 37 years.
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