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Van Gogh: Struggle and Anonymity
Van Gogh wasn't born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and he continued to struggle for most of his life. Supported early on by his sister, Van Gogh prints nonetheless developed a remarkable artistic talent that was both constrained and developed by his lackluster circumstances. Van Gogh's first paintings show hints of his later impressionistic style, but they are remarkable more for their drab color palette. As anyone familiar with Van Gogh's style knows, he was anything but drab later in life.

A wonderful contrast can be found when comparing Van Gogh's early works (which he painted in Holland) to those he made later in life when developing his art in the south of France. From "The Potato Eaters" (an early depiction of poor Dutch farmers) to "The Sunflowers" (representative of his later work), Van Gogh's style changed drastically when he moved to France. Inspired by the expanded palettes of both the southern French landscape and the artists making use of it, Van Gogh prints revolutionized his painting style.

Much is made of the struggles Van Gogh faced in his later years, and despite the fact that he led a difficult life and barely saw any financial return from his artwork, the artist was able to produce an astounding body of work. For one so tortured as Van Gogh to produce paintings that celebrated the beauty of life so well is truly remarkable. Take some time to browse the variety of high quality Van Gogh prints available on our website.

Van Gogh’s Early Life
Vincent Van Gogh a Dutch post- impressionist painter was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot Zunder, Netherlend. His work was great influence on 20th century art for using bright colors, emotional honesty and rough beauty. His family consisted of his mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus and father Reverend Theodorus van Gogh a protestant of a church. He had three sisters Elisabeth, Anna ,Bill and two brothers Theo and cor. Van Gogh was eldest among his siblings. He was very close to his brother Theo.

Van Gogh Prints was silent and serious as a child. At age of seven he started going to school at Zundert Village, there after he joined a boarding school at Zevenbergen. He started showing interest toward painting at an early age. He started drawing as a child. His early drawings lacked the intensity of an expectant artist. At an age of 15, he abruptly left studies and joined a firm of art dealers. His family had various connections in art world, which later helped him to turn into artist. Two of his uncle and his brother were art dealer. He worked for a French art dealer firm Goupil et Cie at Hague for seven years. During this tenure he was transferred to London and Paris by the firm. He became resentful to realize that art was treated as commodity. Hence he decided to quit this profession.

Inspired by his father, Gogh also aspired to become a pastor. Following his footsteps he became missionary in 1879 in mining region at Belgium. This is the time when he started to sketch local community. During his initial paintings his palette showed sober earth tones instead of his popular bold colors.

In 1881, Gogh joined back his family and continued his study in Brussel. He started learning drawing at home, he invented and mastered his style of painting and did various experiments on different subjects. After realizing his passion toward art Vincent moved to France where he met French impressionist. Without any professional training, Gogh started his career as an artist with inspiration of his brother Theo. Although his family had doubts on his skills of painting and urge for becoming an artist. Later he moved to South France where he introduce more colors in his Van Gogh prints and got a unique style. His style of painting was highly recognizable during his stay at Aries.

Gogh Suffered from Schizophrenia and other mental health problem which affected his artistic career. Number of paintings were done by him while his stint at asylum. His brother Theo always encouraged him for being an artist and supported him financially .Van Gogh took his own life with a gunshot at the age of 37 due to acute depression and mental illness. He suffered from Anxiety and mental illness throughout his life. A strange fact about Van Gogh is that he started his artistic career in his late 20’s. Most of his best paintings are created during last two years of his life. Van Gogh created 2,000 art works in less than sixteen years which include 900 paintings and 1,100 drawing and sketches. He loved Japanese form of artistry. Although he is one of the amazing artists in his era who bought revolutionary change in the art world, still he could sell only one painting during his life time. Six months after Gogh’s death his brother’s wife took the initiative to give a recognition to his unique artwork. Theo’s wife is responsible for his popularity. Vincent van Gogh prints have contributed a lot to the art world.