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A Cottage on the Heath and "The Protestant Barn"

Spring 1881, Etten
Pencil, black chalk, pen and brush in brown and black ink, wash, 472 x 616 mm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

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b.1853 in Zendert, Netherlands - d.1890

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Post-Impressionism

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expressive, emotional, intensity, bold colours, and distinctive brushwork

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The emotional intensity of his work and the survival of literally hundreds of his own personal letters has made exploring his pieces an act of great intimacy. As famous as his paintings were, the evident humanity and the tragedy of Van Gogh's circumstances somehow make his work all the more affecting. Never selling a single painting in his lifetime, Van Gogh has become a relatable icon to struggling artists everywhere.

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landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits.

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He used brighter colours and developed his own style of painting, with short brush strokes. The themes he painted likewise changed, with rural labourers giving way to cafés and boulevards, the countryside along the Seine and floral still lifes. He also tried out more 'commercial' subjects, such as portraits.

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One year at the village school in Zundert, two years at a boarding school in Zevenbergen, and eighteen months at a high school in Tilburg.

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Henri Rousseau (1844–1910)

Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)

Maximilien Luce (1858–1941)

Georges Seurat (1859–1891)

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What? outline the ideas of the movement 

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What? outline the ideas of the movement 

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Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour.

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by the beginning of 1888

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In Paris

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Jean-Francois Millet

Painted ordinary everyday people

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Pierre Bonnard

Part of the Nabi art movement, he admired Van Gogh's use of colour and the individual style/technique (applying the paint thickly)

Painting everyday life

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A Meadow in the Mountains: Le Mas de Saint-Paul

December 1889, Saint-Rémy
Oil on canvas, 73 x 92 cm
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo

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Apricot Trees in Blossom

April 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas, 55 x 66 cm
Private collection

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Avenue of Poplars

March 1884, Nuene
Pencil and ink, 540 x 390 mm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Almond Tree in Blossom

April 1888, Arles
Oil on canvas, 49 x 36 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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The Bedroom

October 1888

Oil on canvas 72.4cm x 91.3cm

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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Van Gogh taught himself in 1886 and influenced by someone name

Jean Francois Millet

Rembrandt

Frans Hals

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Bold and dramatic brushstrokes

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Did a huge amount of work in the short period

Did over 2100 paintings

860 Oil painting

Over 1300 drawings

He uses colour to express his feeling and this leads to generations in future artist that want to show there feelings in colour or style