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Collection of Musée d’Orsay, Paris
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"Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh & More"
Venue: Art Gallery of Ontario (2016-2017)
About Vincent van Gogh
Primarily self-taught and unappreciated during his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh made over 900 paintings and 1,100 works on paper during the decade that he worked as an artist. Influenced by Jean-Francois Millet and the Barbizon School artists, van Gogh’s early work comprises dour portraits of Dutch peasants and depressing rural landscapes. In 1886-88 he moved to Paris, where Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism had a big impact on his painting. He brightened his palette, experimented with shorter brushstrokes, impasto, and complementary colors. The paintings he made in Paris announce the bolder Post-Impressionist style that he is best known for today. Emotionally unstable, humorless, and argumentative, van Gogh eventually had a breakdown and moved to an asylum in the south of France where he painted landscapes, portraits, interiors and still lifes steeped with personal symbolism.
Dutch, 1853-1890, Zundert, Netherlands, based in Arles, France, Saint-Rémy, France and Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Solo Shows
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Melbourne,
2015
Williamstown,
Group Shows
2017
Fort Worth,
A Modern Vision: European Masterworks from the Phillips Collection
2016
2016
Amsterdam,
On the Verge of Insanity. Van Gogh and his illness
2016
2016
2016
2015
Amsterdam,
2015
2015
Mexico City,
