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Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert. As he grew up he was a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological student, and a preacher. When van Gogh went to live with his brother in Paris he was influenced by all the new art movements developing and he began to experiment with all the techniques. After he left Paris he lived in southern France. After van Gogh cut off part of his ear he was kept in an asylum for a year. He was the best Dutch painter after Rembrandt van Rijn. On July 27, 1890 Vincent van Gogh shot himself and he died two days later.
Vincent van Gogh was a painter, and a drawer. When van Gogh lived in southern France, he began to paint scenes of fields, cypress trees, peasants, and rustic life characteristics of the region. He used swirling brush strokes and intense yellows, greens, and blues. (Examples: Starry Night and Bedroom at Arles) Vincent van Gogh loved brush work with crawls, very thick and an inherent movement and......

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