Van gogh biography ks2 geography
It wasn't very easy trying to make things grow in the cold, wet soil. But then I moved to another country - France. How different it felt to cold, gloomy Holland. How warm the sun was. And the colours - so exciting, so alive! Everything looked brighter. And I began to use bold, bright colours to match what I saw. Red, blue, green…and yellow, my favourite colour - yellow.
The colour of sun, of warmth, of happiness. I never got tired of painting growing things. People today love my paintings, but it wasn't always like that. I only sold TWO pictures in my whole life. Even though people didn't always like them, I never let it stop me. You are all artists, you know, yes, every one of you. His portraits vary stylistically.
Sometimes he painted himself reflected in his mirror. Self-Portrait , September Self-Portrait , National Gallery of Art , Washington, D. Self-Portrait Without Beard , c. September This painting may have been Van Gogh's last self-portrait. He gave it to his mother as a birthday gift. Van Gogh painted several landscapes with flowers, including roses , lilacs , irises , and sunflowers.
His more famous paintings are of sunflowers. He became fascinated with cypress trees while he lived in Arles. Cypresses in Starry Night , a reed pen drawing executed by Van Gogh after the painting in The Flowering Orchards also the Orchards in Blossom are among the first groups of work completed after van Gogh's arrival in Arles in February The 14 paintings are optimistic, joyous, and visually expressive of spring.
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Orchard in Blossom, Bordered by Cypresses , April Van Gogh went outside the city of Arles to paint harvests. He was captivated by wheat fields and painted several scenes of them. Van Gogh's nephew and namesake, Vincent Willem van Gogh — , began work on making a museum in It became the second most popular museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum , regularly receiving more than 1.
In , it had a record 1. Eighty-five percent of the visitors come from other countries. The Potato Eaters , Art Gallery of Ontario , Toronto. Bridgestone Museum of Art , Tokyo F Vincent van Gogh facts for kids Kids Encyclopedia Facts. In this article, the family name is van Gogh , not Gogh. Self-Portrait , , Art Institute of Chicago.
Zundert , Netherlands. The Sower with Setting Sun , Pushkin Museum, Moscow. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Neue Pinakothek, Munich. Cypresses and Two Women , February Wheat Field with Cypresses , September View of Arles, Flowering Orchards , April Wheat Fields , early June A lovely selection of resources, and so nice to see another of your wonderful comprehension files as well!
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Van gogh biography ks2 geography
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