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Post Impressionist Art of van Gogh

The Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh was one of the best-known of the Post-Impressionists, in the company of CTzanne and Gauguin. Van Gogh's life has been repeated again and again as an example of the tortured artist who could turn out a huge number of beautiful works while in the throes of mental illness and torment. Yet, Van Gogh also highly unsuccessful during his lifetime as far as achieving any renown or selling any of his works was concerned; since his time, however, his works have been much prized and have inflated in value to proportions far beyond what he could ever have dreamed for them. Van Gogh produced some 800 paintings and a similar number of drawings, but he lived in poverty his entire artistic life. His works are marked by daring and startling colors and textures and by the vivid nature of his imagery. An examination of his life and time will serve as a beginning to a discussion of several of his works to show how they reflect aspects of his experience.

IMPRESSIONISTS AND POST-IMPRESSIONISTS

French art in the late nineteenth century entered a new phase with the work of a group of artists who became known as the Impressionists, and their work was very influential on the subsequent history of art in France and elsewhere. Impressionism is described by Arnold Hauser as the last universally valid European style, or the latest trend based on a general consensus of taste. He writes: "Since its dissolution it has been impossible to classify stylistically either the various arts or the various nations and cultures" (Hauser 175). In part, Hauser finds that the rise of Impressionism was related to the antagonism of the public to this style, and in part this was because the Impressionists did not make it easy for the public to understand their artistic ideas. Paris in the nineteenth century was the center of the art world, and a large number of brilliant artists collected in the same region and worked at the same t...

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