1. Винсент ван Гог

2. Self-Portrait as an Artist
*Vincent van Gogh was born in Holland
*He was born in 1853
*His father was a pastor
*He loved painting but never had formal training as a young person
*He worked for an art company as a young man and loved the art work
*He lost his job and studied to be a priest
*He left his studies and became a missionary to Belgian miners
*His paintings were not appreciated when he was painting
*After he and his brother died his sister-in-law made his work famous and sold a great deal of it
*He only sold one painting while he was alive
, this is the only one in which Van Gogh depicted himself as an artist, with all the necessary equipment: palette, brushes, and a canvas on a wooden easel.
Van Gogh probably worked on the painting for some time, and he was apparently quite satisfied with it: in contrast to most of his works in this genre, he has signed it prominently.
Vincent van Gogh ( )
Self-Portrait as an Artist, 1888
Oil on Canvas, 65.5 X 50.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Автопортерт

3. Milk Jug
*Vincent could draw well when he was little
*he did this drawing when he was only nine
*He didn't have many friends
*His best friend was his younger brother Theo
*He left school when he was 15
*This is a drawing of a milk jug
*It is held in the Kröller-Müller Museum in the Netherlands
Молочник

4. View of the Sea at Scheveningen
*After Vincent had decided to stop being a missionary he decided to become an artist
*He hoped his art would show how beautiful the world is and that people would enjoy it
*He went to Paris when he was 33
*Before going to Paris his paintings are fairly dark
*This is one of his earlier paintings
* It is painted in Oil on Canvas
*It is in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
*Van Gogh painted this small view of the sea using thick gobs of colour and a rough brushstroke.
* The raging, foaming sea, the dark, thundery sky, and the boat’s flag whipping in the wind all give a good impression of stormy weather.
* Van Gogh painted this picture on the spot, at Scheveningen, a beach resort near The Hague.
* He had to fight against the elements: the gusting wind and flying sand, which stuck to the wet paint. Most of this was later scraped off, but a few grains can still be found in some of the paint layers.
Вид на море в Шевенингене

5. Peasant Woman Digging Up Potatoes, 1885
*Van Gogh often painted peasants at work
*When he was a missionary he gave all his possessions to poor people
*Van Gogh admired two artists - Millet and Israels - both of whom painted peasants
*He treid to show people as they were in the colours of clothes they wore
*When he was in Paris he found that artists like Monet and Renoir were using much brighter colours
*This painting is in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
*This painting is of Oil on Canvas
*This painting was painted in 1885
Крестьянка выкапывает картошку, 1885

6. Vegetable Gardens and the Moulin de Blute-Fin on Montmartre
*Vincent moved to Paris to save money by living with his brother
*his brother was an art dealer and introduced him to many artists
*He was inspired to use brighter colours in his paintings
*He laid on the paint thickly and quickly
*At this time much of Paris was still rural and Vincent shows this in this picture
*You can see a windmill near the farm
*This painting was done in 1887
*This painting is of Oil on Canvas
*This painting is in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Огороды и Moulin de Blute-Fin на Montmartre

7. The Bridge in the Rain (after Hiroshige)
*During the 1880's it was fashionable to have prints fro Japan
*Many artists including Monet and Van Gogh were inspired by the works of Utagawa Hiroshige
* Vincent was intrigued by the Japanese prints available to him at the time and wrote to Theo:
"My studio is not so bad, especially as I have pinned a lot of little Japanese prints on the wall, which amuse me very much."
*This is painted in Oil on Canvas,
*This is held in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
*This was painted in 1887
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Мост во время дождя (около Хирошига)

8. Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase
*Van Gogh often painted sunflowers in a vase
*he painted this hoping to decorate his friend's room with them
*He and his friend Gaugin were living in the South of France
*One of his other still life paintings has set a world record price
*The dying flowers are built up with thick brushstrokes (impasto).
* The impasto evokes the texture of the seed-heads.
*This was painted in 1888
*It is painted in Oil on canvas
*It is held in the National Gallery, London
Четырнадцать подсолнухов в вазе

9. The Sea at Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
*You can see how much brighter Vincent's paintings are now
*His brush strokes are broader
*He shows the waves crashing on the beach
*In this fishing village, Vincent painted the effects of light on the sea, with small fishing vessels returning with the catch. *The large bright red signature is striking: ‘because I wanted to have a red note in the green.’
*This was painted in 1888
*This is painted in Oil on Canvas
*This painting is in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
(Vincent van Gogh Foundation)
Море в Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer

10. Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum
*Vincent found the environment in southern France exhilirating
*You can almost sense the life from this painting of a street with the warm glow of the cafe
*Vincent enjoyed painting night-scenes - he wrote to his sister:
"Here you have a night picture without any black in it, done with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green, and in these surroundings the lighted square acquires a pale sulphur and greenish citron-yellow colour. It amuses me enormously to paint the night right on the spot. "
* the Cafe Terrace is still in Arles serving drinks to its thirsty patrons.
*The Cafe Terrace is now called the Cafe Van Gogh and has been remodelled to appear as it did more than a century ago--yellow-lit awning and all.
*This was painted in September 1888
*It is painted in Oil on canvas
*It is held in the Rijksmuseum Kroller-Mueller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Терраса кафе на Place du Forum

11. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear
*Vincent became very sad and may have suffered from epilepsy
*He often heard and saw things that weren't there
*During one of these periods he hurt his right ear with a knife
*This is a picture of himself
*After this he went to a safe place - an asylum - where people could look after him
*His brother paid for his care
*This was painted in 1889
*This is painted in Oil on canvas
*This is held in the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London
Автопортрет с забинтованным ухом.

12. The Starry Night.
*In the asylum Vincent painted
*His doctors encouraged him to paint as it helped him stay calm
*He enjoyed the beauty surrounding him
*This is one of his most famous paintings
*Van Gogh stayed up three nights in a row to paint the view from his window in the asylum, because, as he said, "the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
*The church steeple is from his imagination - he could remember what they looked like in Holland
*This was painted in 1889.
*This is painted in Oil on canvas
*This is held in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest.
Звездная ночь

13. A Wheatfield, with Cypresses
*This is painted in Oil on canvas
*This was painted in September 1889,
* It is one of three almost identical versions of the composition.
* Another painting of the cypresses (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art) was painted earlier in July 1889, and was probably painted directly in front of the subject.
*It is held in the National Gallery of London, UK
Пшеничное поле и кипарис

14. Wheat Field with Crows
Oil on canvas
50.5 x cm.
Auvers-sur-Oise: July, 1890
F 779, JH 2117
This was painted in the weeks before Van Gogh's death
It may or may not have been one of his last three paintings
He was sad and troubled at the time he painted it
Some people think that the sky looking so dark was like his mood
Пшеничное поле и вороны.