Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous painters in the world. Everyone can see his work and know exactly who he is. In his field, he is also one of the most successful and respected painters also. He has had an interesting life, but that has never taken away from his artistic talent for the rest of the world.
Painting is oil paintings that depict some of the most beautiful landscapes around. Oil paintings are a distinct style that depicts nature, the sky, and the ocean and the beauty that entails them. You can look at an oil painting and it feels as if you are actually there viewing nature. He produced over 2,000 works in his time, most of which were not successful however, during the last 10 years of his life. Throughout everything that he has gone through, he went from a teacher, to missionary worker, to a painter. Vincent van Gogh Painting became some of the most expensive and well-known paintings in the world and no one really disputes that he is considered the greatest painter after Rembrandt.
One, Vincent van Gogh Painting that is very popular, and quite possibly his most famous, is Starry Night. It is an oil painting on canvas that depicts the view outside his sanatorium room window, even though he painted it from memory during the day. It is one of the most popular paintings of all-time and has a permanent spot in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Because of all the problems that he went through involving his mental illness, he had to check himself into the asylum of Saint-Remy-de-Provence, which is where Starry Night was painted. Unfortunately, after leaving the asylum he shot himself in the chest and died a couple days later from the wound.
It is a shame that an artist of his caliber had to die so young, but his fame only grew after his death. His works had finally begun to attract attention from all over the world and he became more popular in death. His style of freedom and independence became more and more prevalent in his works as he got sicker. Even though his life was cut short, Vincent van Gogh was able to share a side of oil canvas painting that people today still can not match and he will most likely be remembered until the end of time.
