VINCENT VAN

GOGH

Iker Romero Bilbao

4ºB
 WHO is VINCENT VAN GOGH?
• Vincent Van Gogh is a famous painter.
• He was born in 1853 in Netherlands.
• He started painting in his twenties.
• His work is very famous now, but while he was alive most people
didn´t want his paintings.
• He didn´t have wife or children but he got along well with his
brother Theodorus.
• He died in 1890 with 37 years buy gunshot wound.
 HIS PAINTINGS
• His first paintings were
dark and serious.

El comedor de las
patatas (1885)

• After that, painted

pictures with new,
brighter colours.

Terraza de café por la

noche (1888)
 EXPRESSIONISM
• Because of his paintings a new form of art was invented:
Expressionism.

Barcos en el mar Almendro en flor

(1888) (1890)
 PORTRAITS
• He made many portraits including self-portraits.

Autorretrato sin Autorretrato con oreja Autorretrato (1889)

barba (1889) vendada, caballete y
estampa japonesa (1889)
 MOST IMPORTANT WORKS
• Once he moved to Arles, he started drawing his best works, but he
was also hospitalized many times because he had mental illness.

Noche estrelladas
Campo de trigo con El sembrador
sobre el Ródano cuervos (1890) (1888)
(1888)

Los girasoles Los olivos (1889) La noche estrellada Silla con pipa (1888)
(1888) (1889)
 MY FAVOURITE WORK

It is my favourite work because I like the colours of the painting.

Also because the hill calls my atention.

La noche estrellada
(1889)