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Where did he paint starry night?

From his bedroom window from asylum

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Van Gogh became famous only after his death.

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He made 100 paintings and 1100 sketches.

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He made 900 paintings but all together 1,100

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Where did he get his inspiration?

He got it from Paul Gauguin also the Impressionists also the miners he knew

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When Van Gogh was young he wanted to become a priest.

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Q-where did he get his inspiration from?

A-(mostly)Paul Gauguin

They met in Paris 1887

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Q- How many paintings did Vincent Van Gogh make?

A- 900 paintings

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How many painting did Van Gogh made

Van Gogh produced more than 2000 pieces of art (including his drawings). He produced around 900 paintings and around 1100 drawings and sketches.

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What mental illness did he suffer from?

Van Gogh suffered from various types of: epilepsy, psychotic attacks and delusions.- Catalina

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Where did he get inspiration from?

He got inspiration from Paul Gargin, a fellow artist and friend of his. He later attacked Gaugin and accidentally chopped of part his own ear lobe-Toby

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How long did he paint?

He painted for 10 years.

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How did Van Gogh became famous?

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Why did he chop his ears off

He suffered from mental illnesses which could not be controlled. Rayann: he tried to attack Gaugin but ended up chopping off part of his ear lobe off

-It was only one ear and he didn't cut all of it off

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Did his mental illness effect his work?

His did effect his work because in the ayslum he had a mental ill and could not stop painting. He often had attacks. In starry night, which he painted in the ayslum, has swirling lines to represent his illness. The same kind of look can be seen in his other work.

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did Van Gogh travel to paint all his Impressionism paintings?

Most of his paintings wher done in France because of the miners, some of them where also made in south of france

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Q-what inspired Van Gogh to paint?

A-In 1886 Van Gogh relocated to Paris and was influenced by Impressionis and gained exposure to artists such as Gauguin, Pissarro, Monet, and Bernard.

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why did Van Gogh paint portraits of different people like the portrait of Eugène Boch

Answer: He was one of his good friend that he met

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Why did he choose to do this style? (Impressionist)

He studied with and was inspired by Cormon and Pissaro, Monet and Gaugin. It also went with his state of mind.

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Why did Van Gogh decide to paint sunflowers?

The sunflowers were originally called 'tournesols' which means sunflowers in French. He didn't paint one painting of sunflowers he painted more than 8 different paintings. The sunflowers were suppose to be decoration for the yellow house (the house he and Gauguin were living in) but Gauguin had acquired 2 of the Paris versions of the Sunflowers. Furthermore majority of his paintings were meant to be for the room Guagain stayed in ( guest room).

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Why did Van Gogh start painting first?

He was pressured and told by his brother to do something wortwhile in his life, he was also inspired by Paul Gauguin.

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Did his art work have anything to do with his personal life?

Yes, his paintings based on his romance, friends and other personal things

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Why did Van Gogh paint his bedroom?

Source- Vincent Van Gough Biography (book) he painted his bedroom in the asylum to show that he was still capable of painting and to show how lonely, (and cramped) he was in his room. - Gian

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What was his favorite painting

The sunflower painting

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What materials /skills does he use?

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Why is he facing different directions in the photo with his ear cut off he usually looks right?

Who are the people in the background of the scream ?

How long was his state of depression?

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why did Van Gogh never stop painting even though everyone thought his paintings were terrible!?

Because he was most likely bi polar and since he was mentally sick he could have done it to express himself and his illness, in addition maybe he was not happy because no one liked his artwork and he wanted to improve his impressionist paintings.