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Seashore at Scheveningen. August 1882 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

The State Lottery Office. September 1882 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Fisherman with Sou'wester. January 1883 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

The Loom. May 1884 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Still Life with Four Jugs. November 1884 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

A Peasant Woman in White Cap. May 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

The Potato-Eaters. April 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Still Life with Open Bible. April 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Peasant Woman. March 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Peasant Woman near the Hearth. 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Head of a Dutch Peasant. 1885 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Montmartre. Paris. Autumn 1886 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Le Moulin de la Galette. 1886 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

View of Paris from Montmartre. 1886 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

In the Jardin du Luxembourg. 1886 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Self-Portrait in a Grey Felt Hat. 1887 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Restaurant Rispal at Asnières. 1887 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions

Fishing in Spring, Pont de Clichy. 1887 - Vincent van Gogh Masterpiece Oil Painting Reproductions
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, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. 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 Théo, 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.In May of 1890, he seemed much better and went to live in Auvers-sur-Oise under the watchful eye of Dr. Gachet.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.