Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and died in 1890. He was Dutch artist. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had two unsuitable and unhappy romances and had worked unsuccessfully as a clerk in a bookstore. Van Gogh remained in Belgium to study art. In 1886 he went to Paris and studied with Cormon. He met Pissaro, Monet and Gauguin and began to lighten his very dark palette and to paint in the short brushstrokes. Van Gogh's finest works were produced in less than three years in a technique that grew more and more impassioned in brushstroke, in symbolic and intense color, in surface tension, in the movement and vibration of form and line. Van Gogh is considered a Post-Impressionist. He has also been described as a sort of Expressionist due to his use of color to express emotion. He is, in a sense, hard to classify because of his uniqueness.

This specific painting, now in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, was the first of the three oils that Van Gogh produced.The bright and bold use of color in Vincent's Bedroom in Arles is typical of the palette he began to use beginning late in his Paris period. Yellow was Van Gogh's favorite color throughout s Arles and Saint-Rémy period.