2. PRESENTATION
• The Dutch painter Vincent Van
Gogh was born in the city of
Zunder Groot, Netherlands on 30
March 1853 and is one of the
main representatives of post-
impressionism. He lived most of
his life in France, from his youth
proved to have a strong character
and hard, is considered one of the
artists of modern.
• Vincent van Gogh produced all of
his work (some 900 paintings and
1,600 drawings) during a period of
only 10 years (1880-1890 stage)
until it acquired a mental illness.

3. FIRST STAGE
• Van Gogh painting understood as a way of changing society and as
a means of personal salvation, influenced by the Dutch Baroque,
was a clear reference to Rembrandt as to what made chromaticism
began painting bleak Dutch countryside scenes, such as "The
potato Eaters "(1885). At this stage shows the daily life of the least
protected, approaches with dignity in a situation of social
abandonment. Their ranges now are dark, poorly lit environments
and stresses of light and shadow.

4. SECOND STAGE
• The next stage in Paris, is putting you in touch with the
Impressionists, he discovered a new perception of light and color,
learned the clear division ranges and tones and showed a
simplification while greater intensity in the treatment of colors. At this
time began to copy Japanese prints is one of the European artists to
the most influential this type of paint. He chose the landscape and
portrait.

5. THIRD STAGE (1)
• He painted what he saw and
did not need Japanese prints
but still paint something based
on them.
• On the subject of her bedroom,
three paintings Van Gogh
made ​almost identical.
represents a room in the
Yellow House in Arles. He
appealed also to the process
of synthesis of forms learned
from Japanese prints.

6. THIRD STAGE (2)
• His early paintings were
typically Japanese in Arles;
Peach blossom painting.
He painted the surrounding
nature, the wheat fields, the
swamps of the delta of the
Rhone, Langlois Bridge.
During this period he began to
use the rolling brush and
yellow, green and intense blue
that characterize his paintings
of late
.

7. LAST YEARS
• The last years of Van Gogh were marked by their
permanent psychiatric problems, which led him to
be detained in mental hospitals voluntarily.
• This was the last picture that Van Gogh painted a
few days before the suicide. Crows reflect bad
omens. The dark sky and scrambled it anywhere
not indicate a single cheerful note.
• On the afternoon of July 27, 1890, Vincent took the
field and shot himself in the stomach with a pistol
that killed two days after
• He was one of the most famous painters in the
world, despite having made ​more than eight
hundred works considered extraordinary, died in
poverty, is a living example of many painters who
like him devoted his life to painting and
unfortunately his work was not appreciated in life,
only to die a price obtained invaluable.
• The vast majority of Van Gogh's paintings are on
display at the Museum Van Gogh in Amsterdam
and the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.