• The 19th century European society of Van Gogh's time was not ready to accept his truthful and emotionally morbid way of depicting his art subjects.
  • Vincent van Gogh was one of the world’s greatest artists, with paintings such as ‘Starry Night’ and ‘Sunflowers,’ though he was unknown until after his death.
  • He has a painfully short art life, in fact, only eight years, and Vincent van Gogh made a great revolution in art with his works in those eight years.
  • Dorn R., Leeman F. Vincent Van Gogh and Early Modern Art. ... Sweetman D. Van Goch: His Life and His Art. New York: Crown, 1990. 400 p.
  • Interestingly, van Gogh is known for his artworks and his status as the “quintessential tortured artist,” which can be attributed to his tragic and unstable life.
  • An exploration of Van Gogh's early paintings in Holland and how his ideas and techniques developed in Paris, Arles, Saint-Rémy, and Auvers-sur-Oise.