Vincent van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who is considered to be one of the greatest painters in history. He is best known for his paintings of sunflowers, landscapes, and portraits. Van Gogh produced all of his work during a ten-year period, from 1881 to 1891. In this blog post, we will take a closer look at the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.

Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands in 1853. He did not start painting until he was 27 years old. When van Gogh first started painting, he used dark colours. However, he later switched to using bright colours. Van Gogh’s paintings are known for their expressive brushstrokes and bold colours.

In 1886, Van Gogh left Arles and went to live with his brother, Theo, in Paris. There he produced some of his greatest work, including the series of Sunflower paintings and Iris. In 1888 has sought refuge in Arles with thoughts of founding art colony and this one of his most prolific periods of work.

In just over a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 885 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lives, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterized by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. However, he was not commercially successful during his lifetime. At the time of his death, van Gogh’s work fetched high prices but he was little known outside collector circles.

Some of van Gogh’s most famous paintings include “Starry Night,” “Sunflowers,” and “The Bedroom.” van Gogh’s paintings are some of the most expensive paintings in the world. In 2015, van Gogh’s painting “The Bedroom” sold for $28 million.

Van Gogh was a very troubled man. He was known to drink heavily and to have fits of anger. Van Gogh once cut off his own ear. In 1890, van Gogh checked himself into a mental hospital, he died by suicide at age 37 on 29 July 1890.

He was unsuccessful during his lifetime, but he is now recognized as one of the greatest painters of all time. His work was influential to many future artists, and his posthumous fame has only grown in the years since his death. Today, van Gogh’s work can be seen in museums all over the world, and his legacy continues to inspire new generations of artists.

In 1990 the “Portrait of Dr Paul Gachet” was sold for $83,000,000 and still holds the record for the most expensive Van Gogh sold. At Christie’s it fetched $83m, then the highest auction price for a work by any artist. With inflation, it would be equivalent to $180m today.

The largest collection of Van Gogh’s work is housed permanent exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, which opened on 31 May 1973.

The Kroller-Muller Museum near Otterlo houses the second-largest collection of van Gogh paintings and drawings; while the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam holds a large number of his documents and letters.

Much of his work is held by major museums throughout the world. Several of van Gogh’s late drawings are currently owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is the most visited museum devoted to a single artist worldwide, with over two million visitors per year? In 2015 it was estimated that almost one billion people had seen an exhibition featuring van Gogh’s work at some point in their lives.

His work continues to be reproduced frequently in popular culture; he is commonly referenced by visual artists, filmmakers, writers and musicians. Vincent van Gogh remains one of the world’s most celebrated artists.

Post-impressionism artists sought to capture the feeling of the moment. They did this by using bolder colours and more expressive brushstrokes. Some of the most famous post-impressionist painters include Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso. The movement was also was a reaction against the limitations of impressionism.