Vincent Van Gogh

Famous Artist from the 1800s

Artist Vincent Van Gogh's self-portrait, painted in 1889

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously (after his death) became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history. In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful and, struggling with severe depression and poverty, committed suicide at the age of 37.

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