VINCENT VAN GOGH paintings

Irises	Night Cafe	Almond Blossom in a Glass	Montemartre near the Upper Mill	Cafe Terrace	Fishing Boats on the Beach
Pork Butcher Shop	Starry Night	Church at Auvers	Portrait of Dr Gachet	Sunflowers	The Sower

Select thumbnail to view full painting, prices and sizes available.

Vincent Van Gogh

March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890

Own your Favourite Van Gogh Oil Painting

Here is just a small selection of oil painting reproduction masterpieces by Van Gogh. All of our paintings are 100% hand painted oil on canvas reproductions. If you don’t find what you are looking for, remember that we can commission almost anything for you – simply contact us to make a special request. Master Arts looks forward to providing you with a masterpiece reproduction that will be treasured for many generations to come.

Biography

Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch draughtsman and painter, classified as a Post-Impressionist. His paintings and drawings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. His popularity is widely due to the connotation of the lone, tortured, mad, bohemian artist - indeed, Vincent had several relationships, but did not marry and had no children. Even people who have no experience of his art are often aware of the fact that he cut off his ear and believe that he was driven to an early suicide by lack of recognition for his genius. Here reality and myth are intertwined, and although he certainly suffered from recurrent bouts of mental illness, his suicide was preceded by growing praise for his work from radical critics and fellow avant-garde artists - something which paradoxically caused the painter considerable anguish.

Van Gogh spent his early life as an art dealer, teacher and preacher in England, Holland and Belgium. His period as an artist began in 1880 and lasted for around ten years, initially with work in sombre colours, until his encounter in Paris with Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism accelerated his artistic development into his mature style. He produced all of his work, some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known work was produced in the final two years of his life, and in the two months before his death he painted 90 pictures. Following his death, his fame grew slowly, helped by the devoted promotion of it by his widowed sister-in-law.

More or less a self-taught artist, his work was startlingly innovative, from the very beginning. When he started to become a draughtsman aiming to working for illustrated magazines, he already broke all conventions. Later, when he re-orientated towards painting, the same happened again. Neither his early realist work, though close to the Dutch tradition, nor his later impressionist phase met the contemporary expectations. But then his even more radical, more personal depictions of everyday life showed up, using bold, usually distorted, even caricature draughtsmanship and visible dotted or dashed brush marks, sometimes in swirling or wave-like patterns, which are intensely yet subtly coloured. 1890, the year he died, marks his break-through. Since then, Vincent van Gogh became a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and has had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists, with a lineage that follows through to the Abstract Expressionism of Willem de Kooning and the British painter Francis Bacon.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from Wikipedia.

Can't find what you are looking for? Talk to us!