His mother, Anna had inspired van Gogh because she was a moody artist and she loves nature and drawing she had passed her love for the arts on to her son, but his father had nothing to do with the arts he was a country miner.
Van Gogh’s education was at royal academy of fine art for one year in 1886 and then at Willem II collage from 1886 to 1888, he was a post-impressionist painter, his career an artist began in earnest in Etten, He decided to become an artist at the age of 27 in 1880, he moved around teaching himself to draw.
One of van Gogh’s main exhibitions is in Melbourne this year, which is called Van Gogh and all of the seasons,