Vincent Van Gogh's Accomplishments

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Have you ever wondered when you just through on some paint on a canvas, and you don’t know what it is called well that’s called painting. Here’s a fact about painting, did you know painting relaxes your mind when you see it. Also painting lets you be creative and, let’s you be imaginative. So yes, art is amusing and interesting to us because in art we could do all the things listed above and we enjoy being relaxed and calm and we could paint in different styles. Did you know Paula Modersohn-Becker was a German painter she is known as the first female painter to paint bare self- portraits. Also she is one of the most important representatives of early expressionism. She was also an member of the artistic movement of modernism at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Originally vincent was supposed to follow his father's footsteps and be a pastor. Instead he enjoyed doing art so his career in art began, Vincent started painting when he got older, he was 27 years old when he finished his first painting, He self-taught himself to paint. Vincent mainly painted self-portraits. Vincent painted over 30 self-portraits in 1886 and 1889. Vincent Van Gogh was friends with an artist named Paul Gauguin. The famous incident with Vincent Van Gogh’s ear includes Paul Gauguin. The incident of his ear begins like this, Vincent Van Gogh chopped off his left ear after having a fight with paul. He chopped it off because he found out his brother Theo is engaged, so, he cut it off so he wouldn't have to hear people talking about it. Some also say he cut it off because people said his paintings looked bad. Sadley, Vincent Van Gogh died on July 29, 1890 at age 37, and was born on March 30, 1853. Vincent Van Gogh only sold one painting while he was alive, he only become famous after his