Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh is easily the most known painter to come out of the Netherlands. He died too early to know the popularity that his work would receive. Born in 1853 in the Netherlands Van Gogh was the son of a pastor, Vincent was very emotional and had little self confidence. He first took of drawing as he believed all great artists started with drawing.  All together Van Gogh has produced more than 900 paintings, a 1000 drawings, 150 watercol

our paintings, 10 graphic works, 9 lithographs and an etching.

His paintings have a very varied palette of colours and his paintings were very bold and quite dark. He uses a lot of colours and he uses them very successfully and puts them all to good use, he makes great use of a lot of tones of blue for the sky in basically all of his paintings, all the skies are dramatic yet colourful and look as some sort of optical illusion. 

Van Gogh had an interesting style as his paintings very of realistic things but he found ways to make them seem abstract making him one of the earliest abstract painters.

In any of Van Gogh's painting your eyes will be either first draw to the abstract blue sky or anything below it, which is normally some sort of field in a very hay-like yellow colour. The eye would be drawn to the lightest parts such as the moon in his darker paintings, or the sky or trees as in his lighter paintings.

The only tools that Van Gogh used to create his paintings were, paint brushes, paints and his eyes.

All of Van Gogh's paintings were painted in his very specific way which is hard to duplicate or even attempt to have a go at, all of his paintings are masterpieces that shouldn't be changed.

Some of his most famous paintings