Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter born in 1853 who created over 2,100 artworks in his lifetime despite dying at a young age of 37. He had no fixed artistic style and enjoyed painting landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits using symbolic colors and expressive brushwork. Van Gogh started painting and drawing as a child and produced most of his notable work in the last few years of his life, including famous paintings like "Sunflowers", "The Starry Night", and "Wheatfield with Crows".