Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) was a post-impressionist painter known for his emotional and colorful works that influenced 20th century art. Though he struggled with mental illness and poverty, he completed over 2,100 works including 860 oil paintings. Some of his most famous paintings are The Starry Night, which he painted in an asylum and depicted an expressive night sky, Sunflowers that he painted in two series in Arles, and over 40 self-portraits that he used to seek a deeper self-understanding over 10 years.

1. VINCENT VAN
GOGH
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2. INTRODUCTION OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
•Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853
to July 29, 1890) 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 at age 37 from a self-
inflicted gunshot wound.

3. VAN GOGH’S PAINTINGS AND ARTWORK
•Vincent van Gogh completed more than
2,100 works, consisting of 860 oil paintings
and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings
and sketches. Several of his paintings now
rank among the most expensive in the
world.

4. SOME OF HIS ARTWORKS
• The starry night
• Irises
• The potato eaters
Café terrace at night
Almond blossoms
Van Gogh self portrait

5. THE STARRY NIGHT'
• Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in the
asylum where he was staying in Saint-Rémy,
France, in 1889, the year before his death. This
morning I saw the countryside from my window a
long time before sunrise, with nothing but the
morning star, which looked very big,” he wrote to
his brother Theo. A combination of imagination,
memory, emotion and observation, the oil
painting on canvas depicts an expressive swirling
night sky and a sleeping village

6. SUNFLOWERS
•Van Gogh painted two series of sunflowers
in Arles, France: four between August and
September 1888 and one in January 1889;
the versions and replicas are debated
among art historians.

7. SELF-PORTRAITS
•Over the course of 10 years, van Gogh created
more than 43 self-portraits as both paintings
and drawings. "I am looking for a deeper
likeness than that obtained by a
photographer," he wrote to his sister. "People
say, and I am willing to believe it, that it is hard
to know yourself.