The famous painter Vincent Willem Wongog was born in the Netherlands in 1853; Vincent was named after his older brother, who died before he was born. Vincent grew up in a completely fanatical and religious family and atmosphere; He was a very emotional boy who suffered from a lack of self-confidence.

Van Gogh studied at home until the age of eleven, after which he went to a boarding school in the Netherlands and continued his education; Van Gogh's first art teacher was Constantine Huysmess, who taught him the art of painting; From 1869 to 1887, Vincent worked in the art movement in The Hague, as well as in France and England.

Van Gogh did not forget to work while studying, and in 1880 and 1881 he studied for six months at the Royal Academy of Arts in Brussels. In 1884, Wongog fell in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, which was opposed by both families; This and the death of his father in 1885 caused Van Gogh to become depressed.

Van Gogh's first major and professional painting is the "Potato Eaters" painting, which shows a family around their humble table having dinner together; Van Gogh was very interested in the working class and tried to portray their lives; In addition to nature, painting in nightclubs and portraiture were other interests in painting.

From 1886 to 1888, Van Gogh lived in Paris, France, where he met many Impressionist painters, such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Camille Pissarro. Van Gogh was very interested in combining colors and believed that colors complement each other, and this makes the colors glow. His two-year stay in Paris led to the creation of 200 oil paintings.

Van Gogh began his artistic career at the age of 27, and it did not last long because he died at the age of 37; He had only ten years to bring his creative and extraordinary ideas to the canvas, and in those ten years he left more than a thousand paintings and drawings.

Vincent van Gogh's main style is "Post-Impressionism", but during his artistic career he experienced other styles such as "Impressionism" and "Neo-Impressionism".

Van Gogh struggled with depression throughout his life, and later in life he showed signs of insanity, so much so that in 1888 he attacked his artist friend Paul Gauguin; Also one day, he cut off his ear and handed it to a woman in a cafe, forcing his brother to send him to a psychiatric hospital.

Vincent was hospitalized for a year in a psychiatric hospital, where he painted one of his best works, The Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh said goodbye to his hard and sad life in 1890; The cause of death was a gunshot wound to the abdomen, which some believe Vincent committed suicide, but some evidence also suggested that two drunken young men shot him.

The famous painter Vincent Willem Wongog was born in the Netherlands in 1853; Vincent was named after his older brother, who died before he was born. Vincent grew up in a completely fanatical and religious family and atmosphere; He was a very emotional boy who suffered from a lack of self-confidence.