Dimensions
156 x 165 x 12mm
Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) could be considered as one of the more romantic figures among nineteenth-century artists. His highly personal, brilliant, and graphic style may lack the virtuosity of many of his contemporaries but its power to arrest the viewer is universally acknowledged. 'Van Gogh, Life and Works' is a wonderful introduction into Van Gogh's world; it traces his beginnings - a restless young man, who variously worked as a picture dealer, a book dealer and trainee for the Church before finally choosing to become a painter.
Van Gogh was driven by his deeply felt emotions. They affected the way he saw the world, and he translated his feelings onto canvas through brightly coloured gashes of paint and swirling, often frenzied brushwork. Using fifty of van Gogh's drawings and paintings, author Linda Whitely charts his development from his early heart-felt but bleak drawings of peasants to his colour-filled canvases executed in the south of France that have become benchmarks for twentieth-century art.
