Vincent Van Gogh is a Dutch postimpressionist painter who has a tragically short career. His work represents the archetype of expressionism, the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Holland. He was the eldest son of six children in the family, and his father was a Dutch Protestant pastor. By the age of 27 he had been a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theological …showed first 75 words of 776 total…

…showed last 75 words of 776 total…a sympathetic doctor, van Gogh spent three months at Auvers. Feeling that he would no longer be able to paint van Gogh shot himself on July 27, 1890 just after completing his last painting, Crows in the Wheatfields, and died two year later. In the painting his emotional intensity is shown thought the thick brush stroke and the ominous crows, which are symbols of death. Throughout his life he made an output of about 750 paintings and 1600 drawings.