For Caturday, I'm not using my own artwork, but a sketch of Vincent van Gogh's "Daubigny's Garden", that the artist included in a letter to his brother, Theo.
This relates to our Thursday post: Van Gogh in America
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| This is an image of the Van Gogh letter. |
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who posthumously became one of the most famous and influential figures in Western art history.
The son of a minister, van Gogh suffered his entire life with mental health issues.
He began work at age 16, when his uncle got him a job as a trainee with an art dealership in The Hague.
Vincent also was employed at the firm’s London and Paris offices before he was fired in 1876.
Afterward, he was briefly a schoolteacher in England, then worked at a bookstore back in the Netherlands.
In 1878, he went to the Borinage, a mining district in Belgium, and worked among the poor as a lay preacher; he gave away his belongings and slept on floors, but after less than a year on the job the religious organization sponsoring van Gogh decided he wasn’t cut out to be a pastor and dismissed him.
His next career choice, artist, would of course make him internationally famous, although not until after his death.
In a decade, he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of which date from the last two years of his life.
Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands
Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Japonisme, Cloisonnism, Pointillism, Neo-Impressionism
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| This is the only other image of a cat in van Gogh's entire catalog of images. |
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