Vincent van Gogh was an artist who was a unique artist who developed a distinctive personal style distinguished by bold colour, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms.
His bold and dramatic brush strokes expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works
His accomplishment is all the more remarkable given his brief career and the poverty and mental illness that plagued him.
Van Gogh’s drawings are notable because his depictions of figures, light, and landscape can be appreciated without the use of colour.
The artist drew with pencil, black chalk, red chalk, blue chalk, reed pen, and charcoal, though he frequently mixed mediums. He drew on various types of paper and with whatever materials were available to him.
He created approximately 2,100 artworks in a decade, including approximately 860 oil paintings, the majority of which date from the last two years of his life.
They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits with bright colours and dramatic, impulsive, and expressive brushwork that helped lay the groundwork for modern art.