In just ten years, Vincent van Gogh created more than 2,000 works, though he was scarcely recognized in his lifetime. He once lamented to his brother, ?One may have a blazing hearth in one?s soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.? Now hailed as a master of Western art, Van Gogh lived in poverty in France, painting with fierce intensity. His bold, textured strokes, applied with brushes, palette knives, or even his fingers, became his unmistakable signature.
