Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: Vincent Willem van Gogh; March 30, 1853, Groot-Zundert, The Netherlands – July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France) was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who had little or no formal training, but in his brief 10-year career painted a large number of pictures, many of which have become recognized international masterpieces. Van Gogh’s paintings began to gain popularity only after the artist’s death and are now included in the list of the most expensive paintings in the world and are exhibited to the public at the most prestigious exhibitions.
Peculiarities of the artist Vincent van Gogh’s work: the early works belong to the direction of painting as realism. They are painted in a rather gloomy color scheme. For the cycle entitled Peasant Heads and his first significant painting The Potato Eaters, Van Gogh uses mostly earthy hues. The artist’s palette changes after he moved to Paris in 1886, his paintings are saturated with clean, vibrant colors. Vincent van Gogh’s own unique style of painting was simultaneously influenced by Impressionism and Japanese prints. In his paintings in recent years, he most often favored yellow and blue.