Vincent Van Gogh -
1. Home nation? __
2. Father's occupation and Vincent's first vocation? ___
3. City in which VG realizes that his task in life is to reach the people - esp the common and impoverished people of Europe? a) London b) Amsterdam c) Antwerp d) Paris
4. He returns to the continent to a city in Belgium where he is inspired by Japanese woodcuts and paintings by Rubens. ____, Belgium.
5. The most important person in his life. Steady subsidizer and moral support were unconditionally granted. __ .
6. His next stop is the city that is the capital of the art world in the nineteenth century. __ .
7. During his time in the big city he lives near his brother. There we see that an important part of his historic record, or documentation of his life, is missing. His __ are the record is his life.
8. There he paints his most famous still lives, some dozen versions of this subject. The object of these paintings? __
9. In this city he meets one of the leading painters of the day, the enormously creative and virile Paul __ .
10. VG believes that he should have an artists' commune. It will be a house filled with artistic energy and discussions. To get this, he moves to small city in southern France: __.
11. He is bedeviled by 2 major forms of illness, says Wikipedia: __ , __ .
12. While waiting for his artist companion from Paris in the isolated French city mentioned above, he does what? __.
13. He subsequently spends some time in a former monastery in the town of St Remy, France. Why?
14. Characteristics of his painting that have made him so notable: ___ brush strokes. ____ __ __ use of color.
15. He moves near Paris to the care of a doctor specializing in melancholia. What do we call that illness today? ___
16. Following his period of convalescence he shoots himself. Dead. At what age does this occur? __
17. Simon Schama says VG makes his best paintings during what period of his condition? __.
18. In the end he has moved far past the artistic style of the day, which was __ .
19. He is thus called the father of expressionism but, even more importantly, he is called the progenitor of what general era of art? __ __
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