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	Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vincent van Gogh, the eldest son of a Dutch Reformed minister and a bookseller's daughter, pursued various vocations, including that of an art dealer and clergyman, before deciding to become an artist at the age of twenty-seven.
		In February 1888, Van Gogh departed Paris for the south of France, hoping to establish a community of artists in Arles.
		For Van Gogh, her image transcended portraiture, symbolically resonating as a modern Madonna; of its palette, which ranges from ocher to vermilion and malachite, Van Gogh expressed his wish that it "sang a lullaby in colors," underscoring the expressive role of color in his art.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/gogh/hd_gogh.htm (1451 words)

	Van Gogh - MSN Encarta
		Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, the son of a Dutch Protestant pastor.
		Van Gogh’s experiences as a preacher are reflected in his first paintings of peasants and potato diggers.
		The brooding, ominous atmosphere of van Gogh’s last painting, Crows in a Wheatfield (1890, Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh), is considered a reflection of the artist’s disturbed state of mind at the end of his life.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761577161/Van_Gogh_Vincent.html (969 words)

	Vincent van Gogh - II, Amsterdam - SNAP
		Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor.
		In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where, under the burning sun of Provence, he painted scenes of the fields, cypress trees, peasants, and rustic life characteristic of the region.
		The more than 700 letters that van Gogh wrote to his brother Théo (published in 1911) constitute a remarkably illuminating record of the life of an artist and a thorough documentation of his unusually fertile output—about 750 paintings and 1600 drawings.
	members.tripod.com /avx/amsterdam/vangogh02.html (514 words)

	National Gallery of Art - Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Exhibition Brochure
		His art belonged to the avant-garde of his time, and as such was not accepted by the public at large; but Van Gogh had the support of an entire circle of friends, artists, and critics.
		Van Gogh was twenty-seven years old when he decided to become an artist, after unsuccessful attempts at being an art dealer, a teacher, and a clergyman.
		Van Gogh's first major painting, The Potato Eaters of 1885, reflects his ambition to be "a painter of peasant life." At the time the artist was living in the small village of Nuenen, in southern Holland, and found inspiration in the harsh experience of workmen and laborers, with whom he identified.
	www.nga.gov /exhibitions/vgbro.htm (1597 words)

	Theo van Gogh (art dealer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theo van Gogh (May 1, 1857 - January 25, 1891) was the younger brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) and a successful art dealer.
		The graves of Vincent and Theo van Gogh at the cemetry of Auvers-sur-Oise
		Theo was instrumental in the popularity of Impressionist artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas by persuading his employers, Goupil and Cie, to exhibit and buy their works.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theo_van_Gogh_(art_dealer) (924 words)

	Theo van Gogh - Biography - Moviefone
		The great-grandson of an earlier Theo Van Gogh (the art-dealer brother of Vincent), the younger Theo was born in The Hague in 1957.
		Van Gogh's directorial tendencies were not limited to ambition; they extended equally into the realm of talent.
		As for the latter arena, van Gogh became notorious on the international scene for his inflammatory and divisive political columns, for which he was fired by scores of magazines and newspapers, one after another.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/theo-van-gogh/118373/biography (632 words)

	Vincent Art Gallery: About Vincent van Gogh
		Van Gogh himself provided a moving account of his artisitc revolution in the letters he wrote to his family and friends, in particular to his brother Theo.
		His father was a Protestant pastor, and van Gogh first trained for the ministry, but he abandoned his studies in 1878 and went to work as a lay preacher among the impoverished miners of the grim Borinage district in Belgium.
		In 1888 van Gogh moved to Provence in southern France, where he painted scenes of nature and life characteristic of the region.
	www.vincent.nl /gallery/about/vangogh.htm (634 words)

	Vincent van Gogh Biography, Paintings, Pictures, Prints - Respree.com
		Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, The Netherlands, the son of a Dutch Protestant pastor.
		Van Gogh spent the last three months of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris, under the care of a sympathetic doctor with an interest in art, Paul Gachet, whose portrait he painted (Dr. Gachet, 1890, Louvre, Paris).
		Many of van Gogh’s paintings remained in his family after his death, passing from Théo to his widow and then to their son, and are now on view at the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh in Amsterdam.
	www.respree.com /biography/vincent-van-gogh.html (1205 words)

	Troubled Life of Vincent Van Gogh
		In Vincent Van Gogh's own words, he said, "What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter, and then the painting." To understand an artist of Expressionism we must first explore their biography.
		Van Gogh found his personal calling working among the downtrodden miners and their families, and was known to give away his clothing and money to help the poor living in shacks on the flened earth of the coal fields.
		Psychologists studying Van Gogh's history of mental breakdowns have theorized that each mental crisis was preceded by a perceived threat to the deep attachment he felt for a loved one.
	cvc.csusb.edu /VincentVanGogh.htm (3068 words)

	Vincent Van Gogh biography, information, artwork and auction
		Van Gogh has been acknowledged as a pioneer of what came to be known as Expressionism and has had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists, and with a line that continues through to the Abstract Expressionism of Willem de Kooning and the British painter Francis Bacon.
		Van Gogh's parents, Theodorus and Anna Cornelia, and their children Vincent, Anna, Theo, Lies, Wil and Cor (from left to right)Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, a village close to Breda in the Province of North Brabant in the southern Netherlands.
		Van Gogh moved to the Dutch province of Drenthe in the north of the Netherlands, and in December, driven by loneliness, to stay with his parents who were by then living in Nuenen, North Brabant, also in the Netherlands.
	www.artandsell.com /famousartists_vincentvangogh.htm (6036 words)

	Vincent Van Gogh Fine Art at absolutearts.com
		Van Gogh's Postman: The Portraits of Joseph Roulin
		Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard
		The Saint Louis Art Museum's exhibition, Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard,...
	www.absolutearts.com /masters/g/gogh-vincent_van-news.html (688 words)

	Vincent van Gogh Bio \| Artist Biography \| Paintings \| Starry Night \| Art \| Information \| Sunflowers \| Ear \| Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vincent van Gogh was born in the Netherlands on March 30, 1853.
		Vincent van Gogh quit school when he was only 15 and headed off to England in 1869.
		It is thought that Vincent van Gogh was actually epileptic (a condition of the brain that causes seizures) and that is why people thought he had fits of insanity throughout his life.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p2194.htm (411 words)

	news7_10 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theo Van Gogh was hired by Goupil for their branch in The Hague in 1873 and obtained to be transferred to Paris in 1879 before becoming the manager of one of the galleries belonging to this company and situated 19, Bd Montmartre.
		Theo was asked to take no risks and somewhat stuck to such principle as he took no initiative to help his brother Vincent in that respect.
		According to his legend, Vincent van Gogh was a solitary man. In fact, he had an alter ego in the person of his brother Theo, with whom he shared his passion for art and whom he taught the boldest pictorial research.
	www.artcult.com /news7_10.htm (679 words)

	Vincent van Gogh Biography
		Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings) during a period of only 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness (possibly bipolar disorder) and committed suicide.
		Van Gogh's influence on expressionism, fauvism and early abstraction was enormous, and can be seen in many other aspects of 20th-century art.
		Van Gogh suffered a mental breakdown and cut off part of his left ear, which he gave to a startled prostitute friend.
	www.vincentvangoghart.net (1378 words)

	Blog of Death: Theo van Gogh
		Theo van Gogh, a controversial Dutch filmmaker, was murdered on Nov. 2 in Amsterdam.
		Van Gogh made headlines last summer for directing a short TV movie critical of some elements of the Islamic faith.
		Van Gogh was shot and stabbed to death on Tuesday morning while cycling in Oosterpark.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001211.html (1180 words)

	Van Gogh :: Ingo F. Walther and Dr. Rainer Metzger :: Art History
		Van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, near Breda, the eldest son of a Dutch pastor.
		Feeling himself alone in the world, his only true friend and source of moral and financial support was his brother Theo, who attended van Gogh's welfare throughout his life and who would ultimately follow him, within the space of six short months, to the grave.
		Today, van Gogh is not only considered the most important pioneer of 20th-century art, but is widely regarded as one of the most significant and best-loved painters in the entire history of art.
	www.neo-bookshop.co.uk /catalog/van-gogh-p-192.html (296 words)

	Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South
		Van Gogh's most frequent correspondent was his brother Theo, an art dealer in Paris in the late 1880s.
		Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South has been organized by The Art Institute of Chicago and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
		Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South is part of the "Ameritech Exhibition Series" made possible through a grant from the Ameritech Foundation.
	www.artic.edu /aic/exhibitions/vangogh/slide_intro.html (196 words)

	Vincent van Gogh
		Today Van Gogh is one of the most highly priced and one of the most popular artists in the world, yet emphasis on his madness and the passionate execution of his paintings suggests that he is not well understood.
		One of his uncles was an art dealer and Vincent's first job was in his uncle's firm in The Hague, recently taken over by Goupil of Paris.
		Theo lived only another half year and they are buried side by side in the cemetery at Auvers.
	www.artprofessor.com /artists/vincent-van-gogh.php (1316 words)

	Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Van Gogh’s depictions of city life in Antwerp and Paris range from quick sketches jotted down in the street to detailed sheets of coloured chalk or watercolour completed at home.
		Van Gogh actively participated in discussing and debating new ideas, which ultimately became the shape and substance of modern art in Europe.
		Van Gogh began his artistic career in 1880 as a draughtsman and concentrated on drawing for the next three years.
	www.wwar.com /masters/v/van_gogh-vincent.html (1867 words)

	Vincent van Gogh Biography
		Van Gogh is transferred to the London branch of the art firm Goupil and Co.
		Theo is working as an art dealer in Barbizon and Impressionist paintings for the Boussod and Valadon group at the Louvre.
		Van Gogh leaves the asylum on May 16 and spend several days in Paris with his brother Theo and his family.
	www.artquotes.net /masters/vangogh_biography.htm (1194 words)

	Vincent van Gogh Exhibitions
		This exhibition, entitled Van Gogh Draftsman: The Masterpieces was co-curated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Van Gogh Museum.
		Four Van Gogh paintings were on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in the exhibition Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre (Agostina Segatori Sitting in the Cafe du Tambourin, Montmartre, Still Life with Absinthe and Street Scene in Montmartre: Le Moulin a Poivre).
		Van Gogh in Context opened at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo (23 March to 22 May 2005) and then moved on to the National Museum of Modern Art in Osaka (31 May to 18 July 2005) and finally the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Nagoya (26 July to 25 September).
	www.vggallery.com /misc/exhibitions/recent.htm (3842 words)

	Van Gogh, Vincent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Vincent Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son of a Dutch Protestant pastor.
		In 1886 Vincent van Gogh went to Paris to live with his brother Theo van Gogh, an art dealer, and became familiar with the new art movements developing at the time.
		In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where he painted scenes of the fields, cypress trees, peasants, and rustic life characteristic of the region.
	www.galeriedada.com /bio/Van_Gogh_Vincent.html (357 words)

	Amazon.ca: Theo Van Gogh, 1857-1891: Art Dealer, Collector, and Brother of Vincent: Books: Chris Stolwijk,Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Theo van Gogh, Vincent's younger brother, was an influential art dealer working in Paris in the 1880s.
		Theo van Gogh (1857-1891): Art Dealer, Collector and Brother of Vincent presents his life and work in the context of the French art world of his day.
		Throughout much of his life the Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh suffered from emotional extremes, alternating from violent excitability to melancholic withdrawal, moods that are often observable in his self-portraits, landscape paintings and so on.
	www.amazon.ca /Theo-Van-Gogh-1857-1891-Collector/dp/9040093636 (543 words)

	PaintingsDIRECT - Art in the News
		All art lovers have heard of Vincent van Gogh, the Dutch Post-Impressionist renowned for his sunflowers, cypresses and irises and for cutting off part of his earlobe.
		On the occasion of the recently completed traveling exhibition of masterpieces from the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, it is interesting to think about the significant role the brother of the world's most famous artist played in his career.
		Even though Theo himself never painted a single canvas, he is now hailed as deserving a major place of his own in art history: without the allowance that he provided his older brother, some of the greatest paintings of the late 19th century would probably have never been created.
	www.paintingsdirect.com /content/artnews/020601/artnews1.html (436 words)

	Theo van gogh : art-dealer, collector-oil painting tools-portraitok
		Theo Van Gogh was hired by Goupil for their branch in The Hague in 1873 and obtained to be transferred to Paris in 1879 before becoming the manager of one of the galleries belonging to this company and situated 19, Bd Montmartre.
		Theo was asked to take no risks and somewhat stuck to such principle as he took no initiative to help his brother Vincent in that respect.
		According to his legend, Vincent van Gogh was a solitary man. In fact, he had an alter ego in the person of his brother Theo, with whom he shared his passion for art and whom he taught the boldest pictorial research.
	www.portraitok.com /oiltools/2007011815401658086-arts.asp (707 words)

	About Vincent Van Gogh in the history of fine art
		The newcomers try to figure out "Vincent van Goghs secret for eternal fame" - and those multimillions of money which would have been flowing into his pocket if he would have reached the age of 60 and not ended his life at the age of 37.
		Vincent van Goghs concept is very different from the classic "scenery" where nature is a sort of platform for astonishing "scenes".
		For van Gogh it is enough that nature is nature and a face is a face.
	visipix.dynalias.com /sites-en/vangogh/art.htm (1852 words)

	Vincent Van Gogh Biography - Renoir Fine Art Inc.
		Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch postimpressionist painter whose work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting.
		The more than 700 letters that van Gogh wrote to his brother Théo (published 1911, translated 1958) constitute a remarkably illuminating record of the life of an artist and a thorough documentation of his unusually fertile output-about 750 paintings and 1600 drawings.
		In 1973 the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, containing over 1000 paintings, sketches, and letters, was opened in Amsterdam.
	www.renoirinc.com /biography/artists/vgoghshort.htm (570 words)

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