Expressive Arts

Vincent Van Gogh

This week we have been exploring the artist Vincent Van Gogh.

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Through his paintings we learned the phrase ‘self portrait’. This is a painting an artist does of themselves. Jasper said this sounded a bit like a selfie that we take nowadays.

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Here are some facts we learned:

  • He painted over 900 paintings – Ian
  • He became one of the most famous artist – Korin
  • He was Dutch but moved to France – Isaac
  • No one liked his pictures when he was alive but after he died people really liked them – Joshua
  • He did paintings of the flat he lived in – Noah
  • He painted with bright colours and sunny colours on a big paintbrush – Becca

Image result for vincent van gogh self portrait with bandaged earLots of us found out about Vincent Van Gogh’s ear. Nina explained that he had a fight with his friend and chopped his own ear off!