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Gogh, Vincent van
Gogh, Vincent (Willem) van (b. ...
* Mark Harden
Gogh, Vincent van (1853-90). ... and in 1869 van Gogh went to work in the branch at The Hague. ... His father was a Protestant pastor, and van Gogh first trained for the ministry, but he abandoned his studies in 1878 and went to work as a lay preacher among the impoverished miners of the grim Borinage district in Belgium. ... 5 cm; Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam
From 1881 to 1885 van Gogh lived in the Netherlands, sometimes in lodgings, supported by his devoted brother Theo, who regularly sent him money from his own small salary. In keeping with his humanitarian outlook he painted peasants and workers, the most famous picture from this period being The Potato Eaters (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; 1885). ... In 1885 van Gogh moved to Antwerp on the advice of Antoine Mauve (a cousin by marriage), and studied for some months at the Academy there. ... Van Gogh became obsessed by the symbolic and expressive values of colors and began to use them for this purpose rather than, as did the Impressionists, for the reproduction of visual appearances, atmosphere, and light. ...
* La chambre de Van Gogh ?Arles (Van Goghs Room at Arles)
1889 (200 Kb); Oil on canvas, 57 x 74 cm (22 1/2 x 29 1/3
in); Musee dOrsay, Paris
* Vincents Room, Arles
1888; Vincent Van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam
* Entrance to the Public Garden in Arles
1888 (240 Kb); Oil on canvas, 72.
Approximate Word count = 1120
Approximate Pages = 4.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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