Vincent
van Gogh was born near the town of Brabant. His father
was a minister. In 1869, he became an art dealer in The
Hague, and he worked there until he was dismissed from
the art dealership's London office in 1873. He then became
aa schoolmaster in England (1876), before taking theology
to become a ministry at Amsterdam University (1877). He
failed his entry into the Church, and became an independent
missionary among the Borinage miners.
"He was largely self-taught as an artist, although he
received help from his cousin, Mauve. His first works
were heavily painted, mud-colored and clumsy attempts
to represent the life of the poor (e.g. Potato-Eaters,
1885, Amsterdam), influenced by one of his artistic heroes,
Millet. He moved to Paris in 1886, living with his devoted
brother, Theo, who as a dealer introduced him to artists
like Gauguin, Pissarro, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec. In
Paris, he discovered color as well as the divisionist
ideas which helped to create the distinctive dashed brushstrokes
of his later work (e.g. Pere Tanguy, 1887, Paris).
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