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{{Move|Vincent van Gogh}}
{{Move|Vincent van Gogh}}
[[Image:Van Gogh.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vincent van Gogh]]
[[Image:Van Gogh.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Vincent van Gogh]]
'''Vincent Willem van Gogh''' (Groot-Zundert, [[Holland]] 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, [[France]] 1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. In Paris he met [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], and [[Paul Gauguin]],
'''Vincent Willem van Gogh''' (Groot-Zundert, [[Holland]] 1853 - Auvers-sur-Oise, [[France]] 1890) Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. In Paris he met [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Claude Monet|Monet]], and [[Paul Gauguin]], the latter shared living quarters with van Gogh in Arles for a scant nine weeks until the quarrels between the two impetuous painters spelled the end of their close collaboration.
{{cquote|''I can’t change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture''}}
{{cquote|''I can’t change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture''}}
Van Gogh is noted for his thick applications of paint, his "Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" is quite notable for his use of paint straight from the tube with minor brush work to smooth the edges of the dollops of medium. More brilliant still was the use of this technique to create texture in a supposedly two dimensional medium, so that the paintings were part painting and part sculpture as in "[http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0612.htm Starry Night]".
== Works ==
== Works ==