Vincent van Gogh is a painter who uses color in a completely arbitrary way in order to express himself powerfully.
Vincent Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37
Vincent van Gogh is a painter who loved yellow - this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter in whose work the emotions are sometimes so strong that he works without knowing it and the strokes come like speech.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter whose work was the visualized ravings of an adult maniac: a kind of art that ought to be ostracized, as the poets were banished from Plato's republic.
Vincent van Gogh didn't start painting until he was 28-years-old.

Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest, missed all vital organs, bud died 30 hours later
Vincent van Gogh is a painter whose brushwork is quite unsystematic: he slams the paint on in all sorts of ways and leaves each result to take care of itself.


Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime; a few months before he died.
Vincent van Gogh is a painter who, instead of trying to reproduce exactly what he sees before him, makes an arbitrary use of color to express himself more forcefully.