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Van Gogh was born in 1853 and died in 1890. He was a Dutch postimpressionist painter. His works are perhaps better known generally than those of any other painter. The great majority were produced in 29 months of frenzied activity interspersed with epileptoid seizures and despair that finally ended in suicide. His early work, the Dutch period (1880-85), consists of dark, greenish-brown, heavily painted studies of peasants and miners (The Potato Eaters). After moving to Paris, he met …

…throughout the world for his art work. Hundreds of thousands of visitors have been drawn to the various museums which display his work. Like Vincent once said: “My aim in life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, ‘Oh, the pictures I might have made!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**