Vincent Van GoghMy favourite artist is Vincent Van Gogh. He was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable and
unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore, an art salesman, and a preacher in the Borinage (a dreary mining district in Belgium), where he was dismissed for overzealousness. He remained in Belgium to study art, determined to give happiness by creating beauty. The works of his early Dutch period are somber-toned, sharply lit, genre paintings of which the most famous is "The Potato Eaters" (1885). In that year van Gogh went to Antwerp where he discovered the works of Rubens and purchased many Japanese prints.
Van Gogh is great. Be sure to reference your research though.
ReplyDeleteAlso, get rid of the blimmin' annoying music!
[Well done for working out how to do it though]
As for my suggestion earlier today, here is the link to the blog with the neotenic cuteness post:
http://godsnotwheregodsnot.blogspot.com/2007/08/neonotony-and-cuteness.html