Van Gogh
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Anguished art The tortured talents of a post Impressionist masterToday the works of Vincent van Gogh 1853 1890 are among the most well known and celebrated in the world In Sunflowers The Starry Night Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear and many many paintings and drawings beyond we recognize an artist uniquely dexterous in the portrayal of mood and place through paint pencil charcoal or chalk Yet as he was deploying the lurid colors emphatic brushwork and contoured forms that would subsequently make his name and inspire generations of expressionist artists van Gogh battled not only the disinterest of his contemporary audience but also devastating bouts of mental illness His episodes of depression and anxiety would eventually claim his life when in 1890 he committed suicide shortly after his 37th birthday This richly illustrated introduction follows Vincent van Gogh s story from his earliest pictures of peasants and rural workers through his bright Parisian period to his final feverish burst of creative energy in the South of France during the last two and a half years of his life
