what style of art did van gogh produce?
Post-Impressionism
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 Vincent Willem van Gogh ( Dutch : [ ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləm vɑn ˈɣɔx ] ; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 ) was a Dutch Post @-@ Impressionist painter whose work had a far @-@ reaching influence on 20th @-@ century art . In just over a decade he produced over 2100 artworks , including around 860 oil paintings , the majority created in the last two years of his life . They include portraits , self @-@ portraits , landscapes , still lifes , olive trees , cypresses , wheat fields and sunflowers , and are characterised by symbolic colourisation and dramatic , impulsive and highly expressive paintwork . He sold only one painting during his lifetime and was largely unnoticed by critics until his suicide , aged 37 , which followed years of restless anxiety , poverty and mental illness . 

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 Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists in the world , despite that he was virtually unrecognized during his lifetime . After his first exhibitions in the late 1880s , his reputation grew slowly but steadily among artists , art critics , dealers and collectors . In 1887 André Antoine installed Van Gogh 's paintings alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac , at the Théâtre Libre in Paris some of which were acquired by Julien Tanguy . In 1898 his work was described in " Le Moderniste " by the poet Albert Aurier as characterised by " fire , intensity , sunshine " . 

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 Van Gogh had previously decorated rooms with his paintings , in particular the rooms of several restaurants in Paris and the Yellow House in Arles . Gauguin and de Haan appear to have been influenced by this work , as they began decorating the dining room of Buvette de la Plage in a similar fashion . Gauguin 's Self @-@ Portrait was prepared along with its pendant , Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan ( 1889 ) , to the right and left respectively of a fireplace on the upper panels of two wooden cupboard doors . Gauguin gave the panels a subtle , textured matte surface using white chalk ground and a combed wave pattern . Both works were completed sometime between mid @-@ November and mid @-@ December 1889 . 

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 Van Gogh used the Impressionist concept of broken color to give light to a work , innovatively drawing in color , giving the painting light and form , as he also did in his paintings of plowed fields , mountains , rocks , and heads and figures . The series is unified by a more refined approach , without the thick application of paint to which he was more accustomed . 

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 In his letters , Van Gogh specified two groupings : three paintings made in June 1889 and five completed by late November 1889 . There was also a painting in September , three olive picker paintings in December and a few others . Van Gogh made several drawings of olive trees when , as a precautionary safety measure , he did not have access to his paints . 
