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Date of submission: October, 6, 2015 Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists. He was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at age 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He produces more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings on canvases and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches, and paints. In this essay, I will explain about my favorite image of Vincent Van …show more content…
Sunflowers are the subject of two series of still life paintings. The earlier series executed in Paris in 1887 depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set executed a year later in Arles shows bouquets of sunflowers in a vase. Its make me feel wornness and depressed of sunflowers in vase. Some of flower are fresh but make me feel depressed because he use the color and paint it for show these feel.
Third, “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” is this self-portrait was painted shortly after Van Gogh returned home from hospital having mutilated his own ear in 1889. This self-portrait, one of many Van Gogh created during his career, has intensity unparalleled in its time, which is elucidated in the frank manner in which the artist portrays his self-inflicted wound as well as the evocative way he renders the scene. By combining influences as diverse as the loose brushwork of the Impressionists and the strong outlines from Japanese woodblock printing, Van Gogh arrived at a truly unique mode of expression in his paintings. For this picture, I felt about melancholy and painfully of him.
In conclusion, Vincent Van Gogh was the famous artist, who can explain about memory of his artwork that each of his artworks is different feel. His artworks are a post-impressionist painter that he has own style. It is the reason that I like his