Pictures from: Mark Harden’s . Van Gogh was born in 1853 in Holland. He was largely self-taught as an artist, but he did have help from.

Pictures from: Mark Harden’s www.artchive.com

Van Gogh was born in 1853 in Holland. He was largely self-taught as an artist, but he did have help from his cousin. In 1886 he moved to Paris where he lived with his brother Theo. His brother was a dealer, so he introduced him to artists, like Gauguin, Pissarro, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec. Paris was where he discovered colour as well as his creative and expressive dashed brushstrokes.

In 1888 he moved to the south of France where he hoped to establish an artists’ colony there. He was joined briefly by Gauguin, but a number of arguments led Van Gogh into a fit of epilepsy, Van Gogh pursued his friend with an open razor, but was stopped by Gauguin, so Van Gogh cut off his own ear in a rage of madness.

In 1889, Van Gogh became a voluntary patient at St. Remy Asylum where he continued to paint. His colours softened in his paintings to mauves and pinks. His brushstrokes became dashes which were constructed into swirling shapes.

He died two days after he shot himself in 1890. In his lifetime he only sold one work.

The Life Of Vincent van Gogh

Key Words

Landscape

Portraits

Impressionism

Brushstrokes

Expressive

Colour-Mixing

Atmosphere

‘The Starry Night’, 1889, oil on canvas

‘Field with Poppies’, 1889, oil on canvas, 71cm x 91cm

‘Wheat Field with Cypresses’, 1889, oil on canvas, 51.5cm x 65cm

‘Green Wheat Fields’, 1889, oil on canvas, 73cm x 92cm

‘The Harvest’, June 1888, oil on canvas, 73 x 92cm

‘Road with Cypress and Star’

1890

oil on canvas

92cm x 73cm

‘Olive Trees with the Alpilles in the Background’, 1889, oil on canvas, 72.5cm x 92cm

‘Self-Portrait with Felt Hat’

1887-88

oil on canvas

44cm x 37.5cm

‘Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear’

1889

oil on canvas

60 x 49cm

Aims For The Lesson• To create expressive colour in your self-portraits – TONE, LINE and PROPORTION.

•To write up an evaluation on the Vincent van Gogh project in the back of your books – include what you have learnt, what has worked well in your landscape and self-portrait and what could be improved.

•To design a sports car advertising Vincent van Gogh.

‘Self-Portrait’

1889

oil on canvas

65cm x 54cm

Van Gogh Style Landscape – Exemplar By Mr Radford