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 | Lorri9516 (0)
12/11/2008 | My favorite ever
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 | trebon1038 (65)
11/15/2008 | my personal favorite. I love most of his work. I also got to live near Arles France for awhile during the 100 yr celebration of his life there and got to walk the streets he painted. He was very troubled but really found a way to put his emotions in his work.
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 | Sheela9 (4)
05/29/2007 |
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Van Gogh was schizophrenic at a time when no one knew how to treat it. He would have been put away in a mental asylem if not for his work as an artist. "Everything you look at is as it was meant to look." he said in his letter to Theo. He said he worked very hard on each of his paintings. He wanted the effect of looking at scenes through mottled glass. He did a good job.
His picture Starry, starry night is the best and most famous one. He made the sky look amazing! I also like the painting of his bedroom. He was trying to create a sense of grandeur by just using color alone, not form. He used mostly orange and yellow to create a sense of importance about it, but it doesn't look fit for a king. His self portrait was also well done, with the swirling patterns in the background. It looks like his imagination is steaming! |
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 | frogio (51)
01/18/2006 | He definately had an ear for painting.
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 | Florencenightingale (0)
11/26/2004 | I grew up with a large book of paintings of him in the house when I was a kid so I always liked him. I gained a greater appreciation when I read his letters to his brother Theo, he was a poet too!
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 | I _LOVE_BUCKY (0)
07/11/2003 | GREAT ARTIST!
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 | worthog (0)
01/22/2003 | I've seen 25 or 30 of his paintings in museums and I was kind of let down. Granted, they were not his most famous works, but, I like Ryder better.
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 | lukskywlkr. (3)
10/24/2002 | I really enjoy looking through books of his work. He had a definite style all his own. The Starry Night is maybe my all time favorite painting, mainly for Van Gogh's vivid use of color and the swirling patterns. He was also a very tortured soul and you can't help but think about that while you look at his paintings. It certainly shows up in some of his work.
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| oodie (0)
03/27/2002 | he's great-makes me wanna cut off my ear and dance around!
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| Errol (5)
02/26/2002 | I used to not appreciate him a lot because I was mostly in to realism. But I have come to appreciate him more the more I look. It seems I can look at some of his paintings indefinitely and not quit thinking about them. I love the way he uses brush strokes and color to create an impression.
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 | CastleBee (92)
05/02/2001 | His paintings are as vibrant, dynamic and intense as his life was touching and tragic. The continued ability his work has to deeply move and inspire is evidence of a man who struggled his entire life to come to terms with the passionate turmoil within his soul and was finally only able to fully express in the remarkable body of work he left behind. Van Gogh's ability to convey powerful feelings and emotion in his paintings was so great that reaction to them is almost always immediate, dramatic and profound.
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 | Wiggum (18)
05/02/2001 |  To me, Van Gogh is more than just the most inspired painter of all-time, he's also a fascinating character who thought deeply about the meaning of art and life. The classic Van Gogh stories - like when he cut of his ear and delivered it to a prostitute he knew - are interesting enough on the surface, but when you begin to uncover the deeper sources that drove and motivated this man, it really increases your appreciation for his painting and the events in his life. You can read his autobiography, in a sense, by reading a compilation of the letters he wrote to his brother Theo. In these extremely well-written and passionate letters he does talk about day-to-day events, but he spends more time outlining his ever-evolving philosophy of art and his struggle to hold his tumultuous psyche together. Money was a constant problem for van Gogh, and in many ways he considered himself throughout his life to be a failure. But his love of art and his belief in its power kept him going as he created one masterpiece after another. In my opinion, it's difficult to find a more talented or compelling artist than Vincent van Gogh.
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