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Vincent Van gogh
life dates Born where? |
1853-1890
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Vincent described his father as...
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Father believes in his own righteousness
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Vincent described his mother as..
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a dear narrow-minded woman
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As an artist....
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he was almost entirely self taught
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Being a laborer, he felt like a....
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laborer
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Wanted to paint...
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peasants
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Wanted to paint peasants as did...
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Millet
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Two who influenced Van gogh
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Millet, Charles Dickens
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Charles dickens quote...
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What Charles Dickens does in words, I do in painting.
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The three phases of Vincents Art lasted...
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10yrs
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Phase 1 1880-1886
Location, BLANK period |
Holland Belgium, Dutch period
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Phase 1 1880-1886
drawings of.... |
peasants and landscapes
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Phase 1 1880-1886
BLANK paintings done with... |
Oil, traditional palette of earth collors
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Phase 1 1880-1886
What famous work of art was done in phase 1 |
Potato eaters
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Phase 1 1880-1886
Love affair with... |
Cousin
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Phase 2 1886-1888
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paris
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Phase 2 1886-1888
experimented with.. |
bright colors of impressionism
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Phase 2 1886-1888
he discovered and was influenced by... |
Japanese prints
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Difference between phase 1 and 2
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phase 2 was More abstract and Impasto used
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Phase 3 1888-1890
3 locations |
Arles
St. Remy Auvers |
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Phase 3 1888-1890
Event in Arles |
Ear cutting incident
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Phase 3 1888-1890
Location of arles, st. Remy, Auvers |
arles and st remy - southern france
Auvers- near paris |
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Phase 3 1888-1890
what type of painting |
Highly expressive, individual manner of painting which made him famous.
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Phase 3 1888-1890
His work begins... |
...to look less real, trying to say more with less
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Phase 3 1888-1890
quote |
"Leave the obvious vague, but exaggerate the essential."
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Phase 3 1888-1890
paintings of.... |
sunflowers, cypress trees, olive trees
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Phase 3 1888-1890
colors were used.... |
symbolically
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Phase 3 1888-1890
color meanings |
Red and greens: Terrifying human experience
yellow: joy and life |
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Phase 3 1888-1890
The famous yellow house/studio in... |
Arles
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Phase 3 1888-1890
The famous sunflowers of... |
Arles
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Phase 3 1888-1890
The BLANK relationship, strong use of.. |
Gauguin, impasto
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Phase 3 1888-1890
loved what color |
Yellow
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Phase 3 1888-1890
did what famous work |
Stary night
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Phase 3 1888-1890
A BLANK period |
prolific
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Vincent's birthday
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March 30, 1853
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What happened one yr (to the day) before Vincent was born?
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van gogh's first vincent was born dead. Burried in churchyard
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Tombstone made vincent feel...
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like the second vincent, the substitute
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Van gogh's had how many children, name of brother
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5, Theo
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The BLANK letters were to whom and why so important
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Dear Theo letters, important because it gives us insight into the struggles Vincent had in the art world and in life.
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If it wasn't for BLANK we wouldn't know 99% of things we know today about Vincent
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Joanna, Theo's wife
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How did Vincent sign his works?
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"Vincent" first name only
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His goal in life.....
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Wanted the respect and love of his father...didn't ever work
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Blank, he fell in love with and....
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Keevos, his cousin, suffered second humiliating rejection in love
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Keevos did what...because of
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committed suicide, because Vincent harassed her so much.
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Lived with BLANK for a while because why...
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Sien (Clasina Hoornik) because he couldn't have his cousin
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What did Vincent say to his brother before dying?
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"Theo there will never be an end to human misery (suffering)."
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"I want to do drawing which BLANK some people....I want to progress so far that people will say of work, he feels BLANK, he feels tenderly-not withstanding my so-called BLANK, perhaps even because of it...What am I in most people's eyes? A non-entity, or an eccentric and disagreeable man-somebody who has no position in society and BLANK will have, in short, the lowest of the low. Very well, even if this were true, then I should want my work to show what is in the heart of eccentric, of such a nobody."
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Touch, deeply,roughness, never
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Vincent feels what his father and mother think of him. They feel like...
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Vincent is a big rough dog, a foul beast.
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Vincent wanted to....
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do and finish a certain amount of work to leave a remembrance in the way of drawing and painting not made to please a trend but in which human feeling is given utterance.
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Just before this letter (8-1883-letter 309) written to Theo he wrote,KNOW NUMBERS
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My body will stand the strain for a certain number, say between six and ten. If one is consumed too much in that time, one will not pass forty years of age.
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And he indeed did not live to see...
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forty
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Vincent had a tendency to...because
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hurt himself, the product of a deep feeling of guilt that was intensified by many failures
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In a ten year period he produced BLANK drawings, BlANK paintings
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over one thousand, 900
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Vincent took art lessons in BLANK (Location and date)
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Brussels 1880
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Sunflowers
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Sunflowers and van Gogh have been as one word in the art and street vocab for over a century.
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Painted BLANK sunflower pictures
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12, 5 in paris,7 Arles in Provence
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"My pictures are after all almost a cry of BLANK, although in the rustic BLANK they may symbolize gratitude." Written to BLANK
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anguish, sunflower, to Wilhelmina
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Ear cutting incident date
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Dec 24 1888
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Ear cutting incident
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mutilated himself, almost killed himself because he hit a vein
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Ear cutting incident
What did he do with the ear? |
Gift wrapped it and gave it to a friend for xmas, she fainted
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Ear cutting incident
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Theo arrived at the hospital. Vincent's dream of sharing a yellow house to learn and create art now ended
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Ear cutting incident
Gauguin.... |
left Arles
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Vincent had already painted BLANK to....
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4 canvasaes of sunflowers, to brighten the austere room of Gauguin
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in the mental hospital vincent....
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accepted it as another curious even in his troubled life
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"I shall count myself very lucky if BLANK, for it worries me a lot when I think that I have done so many pictures and drawings BLANK.
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I can manage to work enough to earn my living, with ever selling one
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Auction prices
Van Gogh Sunflowers... Portrait of Dr. Gachet... |
...auctioned for 39.8 million
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Auction prices
Irises... |
sold for 53.9 mil
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Price
Portrait of Dr. Gachet Date |
set a record at $82.5 Million (1990)
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The final days of Auvers
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Vincent decided to leave southern France.
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The final days of Auvers
went to... |
Dr. Gachet a physician whom theo knew took him on as a private patient.
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The final days of Auvers...
Vincent thought that... |
Gachet suffered from the same illness he did
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The final days of Auvers..
painted |
heartbreak in his eyes
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The final days of Auvers..
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Happened in July. Dr was gone. Vincent felt a spell coming on and was frightened he couldn't face it alone. He went out into the fields and shot himself. Died the next day with Theo by his side
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The final days of Auvers...
Age at death |
37
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