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VINCENTVAN GOGH are Cornfield and Cypress
Trees, Sunflowers, and Starry
Dutch painter who produced
over 800 paintings and 850 and direct in their recording
drawings in only the last ten felt, while
year's of his life. Among van of what he saw and
Gogh's best-known canvases inner
also describing his
Night. His passionate brush
and pencil strokes are honest
turmoil and growing alarm
at the world around him.
Fierce strokes This is a portrait of a meaningful chair, drawn
the flat opposite way of
drew immediately and almost mechanical
harshly;hehas marked the full not plan. Van
floor
emotion of the subject with a few is made present in only
fierce grip of concentration. The as strokes and is subdued
to distract us from
engagement with the chair.
Chair
1890
VINCENT VAN G O G H
