Vincent Van Gogh: A Post Impressionalist Painter

By: Garret Nolen

• Vivid Colors• Thick application of

paint• Distinctive brush

strokes• Real life subject

matter

• Is this an example of Post-impressionalism?

• Dark colors•Melancholy/somber feel•Sharply lit •No brushstrokes

Potato Eaters 1885

• Failed previously as painter

• Paris Training• Met Monet, Pissaro,

Goughlin

•Color Palette Lightened

•Brighter Colors

•Short Brush StrokesSunflowers

• 1888 Mental Health affect paintings

• Couldn’t draw for long periods

• Suffered from attacks• Starry Night most

popular work

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Starry Night

•Swirling Lines= Mental state•Bright Colors/Short strokes

• Believed life was a failure

• July 27,1890 suicide• Fame grew after

death• Huge influence on

art then and now

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