The Artist

Vincent Van Gogh is a very famous Painter.
He was born in Holland in 1853.

Van Gogh’s first paintings were about poor people.

In the beginning his paintings were dark and sad.
He spent  some years in France,  where he got in touch with impressionist painters.

Characteristics of Impressionist painting include visible brushstrokes.

Van Gogh was  very poor and he wasn’t famous when he was alive. He became famous only after his death. He died in 1890