Vincent van Gogh: Biography, Art, and Quotes

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh
(30 March, 1853, Groot-Zundert, Netherlands – July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise near Paris, France) (aged 37)
Nationality: Netherlands
Occupation: Painters
Specification: Post-impressionism, Expressionism
Unique distinction: One of history’s greatest painters, one of the founder of modern art. The leading exponent of Post-impressionism and Expressionism. The prototype of the misunderstood and tormented genius.
Gender: Male

Vincent van Gogh Quotes:
1. It is good to love many things, for therein lies true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
2. I am seeking. I am striving. I am in it with all my heart.
3. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
4. I feel such a creative force in me: I am convinced that there will be a time when, let us say, I will make something good every day, on a regular basis.
5 There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

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**Vincent van Gogh.** **Starry Night Over the Rhone (1988), Musée d’Orsay, Paris**

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Wheat Field with Cypresses** **(1889), Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City**.
There are four versions, varying in size, of the Wheat Field with Cypresses painting. The other three versions are: at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, at private collection, and the last one is at the National Gallery in London. All these versions Van Gogh painted frome June to September 1889.

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Wheat Field with Cypresses (1889)**. **National Gallery in London**

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Starry Night (1889). Museum of Modern Art in New York City**

**Vincent van Gogh. Sprig of flowering almond in a glass (1888), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam**

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Meadow with Flowers under a Stormy Sky (1888**). **Private collection.**

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Meadow with Flowers under a Stormy Sky (1888**). Fondation Socindec

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Sunflowers (1888). Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany**.
There are seven and actually five versions of Sunflowers in vase.

**Vincent van Gogh**. **Vase with Fourteen Sunflowers (1988). National Gallery. London**

**Vincent van Gogh.** **Sunflowers (1889)**. **Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam**

**Vincent van Gogh. Sunflowers (1889) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US.**

**Vincent van Gogh. Sunflowers (1888), Sompo Museum, Tokyo**

**Vincent van Gogh**. **Self-Portrait (1887) Oil on pasteboard, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam**
There are thirty-nine of Van Gogh’s self-portraits.

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Paintings by E. J. Paprocki

E. J. Paprocki 5

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Painting by Koukei Kojima

Hideo Kojima, born in 1963 in Tokyo, grew to develop a passion for cinema and literature. He joined Konami in 1986, where he created the significant Metal Gear series and other remarkable works such as ‘Zone of the Enders’, ‘Snatcher’, and ‘Policenauts’. He established Kojima Productions within Konami in 2005, before making it an independent studio in 2015 and releasing ‘Death Stranding’ in 2019.

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Vicente Romero Redondo – modern Spanish artist

Vicente Romero Redondo

(born on 1956, Madrid, Spane)
Nationality: Spane
Category: Art workers
Occupation: Painter
Specification: He is known for amazing female pastel and oil paintings. “Superb Spanish painter of beauty and light”.
Gender: Male
Style: Figurative, Neo-realism
Subjects: Portraits, seascapes, the nude,
Medium: Pastel, oil.
Major topic: Female and her femininity.
Education: In 1982 he graduated from the art faculty of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando (Madrid).
Spouse: Silvina Gottero (married in 2008)
Personal Life: He is the eldest of four sons in family. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain.
In 1971 he with his family moved back to Madrid.
He sdudied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando. Francisco Goya was once one of the academy’s directors, and, its alumni include Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, hwo studied there from 1922-1926. He started his early years in sculpture and later turned into painting.
Since 1987, he lives in the town of Calonge on the Mediterranean coast of Costa Brava (the birthplace of Salvador Dali).
Career: After graduating from the Academy he worked on the street for several years. Since the early 90s Romero’s paintings have been shown in individual expositions in Portugal, Spain France and the USA . In 2001 he moved to Madrid, but he still spends time in the Costa Brava. Since 2002, took part in the fifteen major art exhibitions.
Some galleries have permanent exhibitions of his work: the Euroarte (Lisbon), Masters Gallery (Denver), Masters Gallery (Vail), Aspen Grove Fine Art (Aspen), Galerie Züger (Dallas), Puerta de Alcalá (Madrid), The Little Gallery (Saint-Émilion). Some of his most recent exhibitions: Petleys (Londres,2010),Pizarro (Valencia, 2011), Benedito ( Málaga, 2012), Salon International du pastel en Périgord (2012).
Creative style: He used to work with the classical style, which allows to get most out of oil paints highlighting the colors and shapes. In recent years, he gives preference to the pastels, wich he more spontaneous. The artist himself states that pastel colors allow to have “unrivaled delicacy” and to compose elements with admirable light. Recently, he producing a mutually enriching dialogue between the two techniques.