Vincent van Gogh produced his first drawings while staying at his parents' home in Etten, The Netherlands, schooled chiefly by books on anatomy, perspective and artistic technique. The artist restricted his first drawings to a black and white palette, believing mastery of this discipline to be essential before attempting works in color.
Vincent van Gogh Biography Vincent van Gogh ( - ) was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant.
10 Facts that You Don't Know About 'Sunflowers' by Van Gogh Sunflowers, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh Some of Vincent van Gogh's most famous works are his Sunflower series. He painted a total of eleven of these canvases, although the most commonly referred to are the seven he painted while in Arles in 1888 - 1889. The other five he had painted previously while in Paris in 1887. There are many ...
Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait by Vincent Van Gogh This, the last of Van Gogh's self-portraits and one of the greatest, was painted only months before his death. The compulsive, restless all over ornament of the background, recalling the work of mental patients, is for some physicians evidence that the painting was done in a psychotic state. But the self-image of the painter ...
Irises, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh In 1889 Van Gogh entered Saint-Paulde-Mausole, an asylum at Saint-Remy, originally a 12th-century Augustinian monastery, some twenty kilometers north of Aries. To Van Gogh, Saint-Paul-de-Mausole was an asylum, monastery and studio all in one, which was why he so gladly opted for the isolation.