Vincent van Gogh - Vincent van Gogh Paintings

Works of Vincent van Gogh While studying at school, Vincent drew and painted with watercolors, but unfortunately, only a few jobs survived from that time. Van Gogh created about 150 watercolor paintings during his lifetime. In 1882, He went to create a series of graphic artworks. In the early years of his artistic career, Vincent painted with dark and very melancholy colors due to his spiritual condition. Vincent's style changed after he moved to Paris in 1886, where he met impressionist and Neo-impressionist painters, and they greatly influenced his artworks. From that time, Van Gogh started using a lighter palette of oranges, reds, greens, yellows, and his colors became brighter. Vincent also became greatly influenced by Japanese prints, and he started using dark outlines around objects. Each painting of Vincent represents a direct sense of how the artist viewed each scene, explained through his eyes, heart, and mind. This emotionally evocative style later affected artists and movements throughout the 20th century. First painting The first true masterpiece of Vincent van Gogh is a 'Potato Eaters,' Which most strongly expresses the social and moral feeling of a great artist. The painting portrays five figures sitting around the table. Two of them are male, and three of them are female, the subject matter of the picture is too realistic and naturalistic because it depicts the ordinary life of five laborers eating baked potatoes from the potato plate. Vincent describes the miserable life of laborers, they are s

Vincent van Gogh masterpieces Vincent van Gogh created almost 900 paintings between November of1881 and July of 1890, they became great masterpieces of the history of art, but only after the death of the artist. Van Gogh's paintings captured the heart and the mind of millions of art lovers in the world. His works had a vital influence on the development of modern art. More than 800 oil paintings and over 700 drawings, the great Douch painter sold only one in his lifetime.

The Starry Night was painted in June 1889, and the artwork describes the view from the window of Vincent's asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence. The Starry Night is claimed as the most recognized painting in Western cultural history. The masterpieces' beauty is timeless and universal. While being in the hospital, Vincent had too much freedom. He was allowed to go outside to paint and read. Vincent was suffering from multiple mental illnesses, and he had thoughts of suicide while being in depression. By the time Vincent returned to his dark colors and the Starry Night is the perfect example of that. Blue is the dominant color in the painting, and each building is clearly outlined in black. "The Starry Night" represents Vincent van Gogh's emotional condition while being at Asylum. "The Starry Night" may be about mortality, and the painter represents his inner thought by that painting.

Vincent van Gogh created this painting after a famous conflict with his friend Paul Gauguin, during one of their arguments he injured himself and cut his left ear with a knife, and then he offered a pierced ear to a prostitute as a gift. In this self-portrait, Gogh is with a blue cap and green overcoat, with a bandage covering his ear. Vincent used a mirror while drawing self-portraits, that's why some people mistakenly think that he had lost piece of his right ear instead of left.

Almond Blossom is from a group of paintings created in 1888 and 1890. During that time, Vincent was admired by Japanese art and culture. The picture contains strong elements of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints that collected Vincent van Gogh. Those flowering trees were exceptional and essential for Vincent because it is a symbol of awakening hope and renovated life. The "Almond Blossom" also represents charm delicacy, sweetness, For Chinese culture. It shows feminine beauty. In the Christian religion, almond represents the purity of the virgin. The painting "Almond Blossom" was a gift to Vincents' nephew and namesake.

The Mulberry tree is among the most famous paintings of Vincent van Gogh. He created it in 1889, a year before his death. After a renowned ear accident, Vincent went to stay at the Asylum, where he remained for a year. After the incident, his mental health was almost destroyed; he had paranoid thinking that people wanted to poison him. In his famous letters to his dear brother Theo, he acknowledged that he had been in the wrong place mentally, but he was getting better. During his stay at Asylum, Vincent painted different aspects of his life, such as doctors, gardens, fields, flowers.' The Mulberry tree was created during his Asylum period, and it depicts a view from the Asylum window. The Mulberry tree is growing alone from a rocky hillside. There are different bright colors used in this painting that shows Vincent's interest in impressionism, his knowledge of color theory, and his place in the world.

Mental health Vincent van Gogh suffered through his life from mental illness; he had frequent episodes of depression, anxiety, and also had symptoms of bipolar disorder. Despite the mental agony, a profound optimism carries him and enables him to continue painting. To handle his attacks of epilepsy, anxiety, and depression, Van Gogh drank absinthe, a toxic alcoholic drink that was popular with many artists at the time. Thujone is the toxin in absinthe. Unfortunately, the Thujone worked against Van Gogh, bothering his epilepsy and manic depression. High quantities of Thujone can also cause one to see objects in yellow. Various physicians have different opinions on whether or not this is what caused Van Gogh's closeness or sympathy with yellow. In 1889 van Gogh who had experienced multiple episodes of poor mental health, Vincent had been Saint-Paul de Mausole mental health hospital where he spent a year. During that time, Vincent produced some of the most famous paintings. He created more than 100 paintings while being at the Asylum, including "The Starry Night," "Irises," and others. Last works The final two months of Vincents's life was the most energetic and creative period of his life. He was creating one painting per day. One of the most important factors of his productivity was that he was released from Asylum and moved to a village of Auvers-Sur-Oise in northern France. Vincent's artworks are extraordinary not only for colors and brushwork but also for artistic experimentation, new c