{"product_id":"vincent-van-gogh-for-art-and-for-life","title":"Vincent Van Gogh For Art and for Life","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFew artists' letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van\nGogh's. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eFrom the humanistic inspiration behind \u003ci\u003eThe Potato\nEaters\u003c\/i\u003e to his long-time obsession with painting the vision that\neventually became \u003ci\u003eThe Starry Night\u003c\/i\u003e, the letters in this selection\npaint an intense personal narrative of his artistic development and creative\nprocess across the years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThey reveal a man of great spiritual and emotional depths\nwho – in his own words – did everything ‘for art and for life itself’.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a\nDutch post-Impressionist painter whose work had far-reaching influence on\n20th-century art. His paintings include portraits, self portraits, landscapes,\nstill lifes, olive trees and cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. He was\nlargely ignored by critics until after his early death in 1890. The only\nsubstantial exhibitions held during his lifetime were showcases in Paris and\nBrussels. The first published full-length article came in 1890, when Albert\nAurier described him as a Symbolist. The widespread and popular realisation of\nhis significance in the history of modern art did not begin until his adoption\nby the Fauves and German Expressionists in the mid-1910s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eVincent van Gogh was born to upper middle class parents and\nspent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers before travelling\nto The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught in England at Isleworth\nand Ramsgate. Although he drew as a child, he did not paint until his late\ntwenties; most of his best-known works were completed during the last two years\nof his life. He was deeply religious as a younger man and aspired to be a\npastor and from 1879 worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where\nhe sketched people from the local community. His first major work was 1885's\nThe Potato Eaters, from a time when his palette mainly consisted of sombre\nearth tones and showed no sign of the vivid colouration that distinguished his\nlater paintings. In March 1886, he relocated to Paris and discovered the French\nImpressionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLater, he moved to the south of France and was influenced by\nthe region's strong sunlight. His paintings grew brighter in colour, and he\ndeveloped the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully realized\nduring his stay in Arles in 1888. In just over a decade, he produced more than\n2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300\nwatercolours, drawings, sketches and prints.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAfter years of anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness\nhe died aged 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The extent to which his\nmental health affected his painting has been widely debated. Despite a\nwidespread tendency to romanticize his ill health, art historians see an artist\ndeeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence wrought through illness.\nHis late paintings show an artist at the height of his abilities, completely in\ncontrol, and according to art critic Robert Hughes, \"longing for concision\nand grace\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. \"Self\nPortrait\" by Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44770732310735,"sku":"9780241752463","price":13.08,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_6041eed0-1227-4ad6-90a7-2fa61cf5ec73.jpg?v=1774948181","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/vincent-van-gogh-for-art-and-for-life","provider":"Popular Book Company Pte Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}