Vincent Van Gogh and Ivan Albright

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Vincent van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890 ) was a Dutch-Impressionist artist with enormous influence on 20th century art (Greenberg Jordan , 2001 . Born in the town of Groot- Zundert in Brabant , he was the oldest among the six children of Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus . He did not show inclination towards art as a young child and people remembered him as a serious , eccentric sensitive boy who loved flowers , birds and insects . From 1861 to 1864 he attended a local village school for

academics and the church house for religious education . The next four years he studied English , French and German in a boarding school in Zevenbergen before transferring to a new high school in Tilburg . However , he had to leave the Tilburg school because of financial problems . He was taught to draw at school but of his works showed potentiality . Between 1860 and 1880 , he decided to stay in Belgium and to become an artist , to create beauty despite an unhappy personal life . In 1886 , he left for Paris to join his brother Theo , a manager of Goupil 's gallery . There he met HYPERLINK "http /www .pissarrogallery .com " Pissarro , HYPERLINK "http /www .cmonetgallery .com " Monet , and HYPERLINK "http /www .gauguingallery .com " Gauguin , started to lighten up his attitude and painted in the short brushstrokes of the Impressionists . He was a difficult companion because of his habits of engaging in night-long discussions and day-long painting which ultimately took toll on...