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    Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter from the Netherlands who became famous after his death. He painted over 900 paintings in just 10 years using dark colors and peasants as models initially. He suffered from illness and seizures which affected his work. During his life he sold only one painting but after his death he became very famous and his paintings like Starry Night, The Bedroom, Irises and Sunflowers are now among the most famous in the world.

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    Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter from the Netherlands who became famous after his death. He painted over 900 paintings in just 10 years using dark colors and peasants as models initially. He suffered from illness and seizures which affected his work. During his life he sold only one painting but after his death he became very famous and his paintings like Starry Night, The Bedroom, Irises and Sunflowers are now among the most famous in the world.

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    Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter from the Netherlands who became famous after his death. He painted over 900 paintings in just 10 years using dark colors and peasants as models initially. He suffered from illness and seizures which affected his work. During his life he sold only one painting but after his death he became very famous and his paintings like Starry Night, The Bedroom, Irises and Sunflowers are now among the most famous in the world.

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    Vincent van Gogh

    (1) Vincent van Gogh was a _________________ artist who became famous after he died. He was most
    famous for Starry Night, The Bedroom, Irises and Sunflowers.
    (2) Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, ____________, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands.
    (3) Before this famous painter started creating his works of art he wanted to be a ______________ in just
    like his father.
    (4) Van Gogh was _________ years old when he painted his first piece.When he first began painting, he
    used peasants as models and also used very dark colors like black, grey and dark greens.
    (5) He would later paint flowers, landscapes and himself, mostly because he was too poor to pay any
    ______________.
    (6) He painted over 900 paintings in the space of just ___________years.
    (7) Besides not eating well, he also suffered from a disease where he got lots of seizures, which had to do
    with his ____________. That’s sad!
    (8) Unbelievably he only sold one painting in his ______________, called ‘The Red Vineyard’. Like
    many painters he only became famous after he died.
    (9) During his life he wrote over 800 letters. Most of them were to his ____________ Theo, who was also
    his closest friend.

    Van Gogh’s Most Famous Painting


    (10) Vincent van Gogh was what we would call a little bit mad! Because of this he ended up staying in a
    _____________ hospital in France.While he was there he painted his most famous painting ‘The
    Starry Night’

    How did Vincent van Gogh Die?


    (11) No one is really sure how he died, but there are two _____________. One was that he shot himself in
    a wheat field. The other rumor was that two boys shot him.
    (12) He was only _________ at the time. His brother Theo was by his side when he died and said that
    Vincent’s last words were “the sadness will last forever.”
    (13) Vincent’s brother Theo died only _________months after Vincent. He is buried next to him in
    France. At least they were together!
    (14) After Vincent died, his brother’s wife ______________ all of his paintings and letters and she
    dedicated herself to getting his work the fame he deserved.

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