what art movement does vincent van gogh belong to?
Post-Impressionism
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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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 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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 Born into an upper @-@ middle @-@ class family , Van Gogh drew as a child , was thoughtful and intellectual but evidenced signs of mental instability . He worked as an art dealer as a young man , but became depressed after he was transferred to London . He turned to religion , spending time as a preacher in southern Belgium , and later drifting in ill health and solitude . He was keenly aware of modernist trends in art , music and literature , and after moving back home with his parents , took up painting in 1881 ; supported financially by his younger brother Theo with whom he had a long correspondence of letters . His early works are mostly depictions of common and peasant labourers , and contain few signs of the vivid colourisation that distinguished his mature period . In 1886 he moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists . From then his paintings grew brighter in colour as he developed a style that became fully realised during his stay in Arles in 1888 . There he lived in the so @-@ called " Yellow house " , and with Paul Gauguin developed a concept of colour that would symbolise inner emotion . 

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 For months , Van Gogh worked at Cormon 's studio , where he frequented the circle of the Australian artist John Peter Russell , and met fellow students Émile Bernard , Louis Anquetin and Henri de Toulouse @-@ Lautrec – who painted a portrait of Van Gogh with pastel . The group congregated at Julien " Père " Tanguy 's paint store ( which was , at that time , the only place where Paul Cézanne 's paintings were displayed ) . He had easy access to Impressionist works in Paris . In 1886 , two large exhibitions were staged , in which Neo @-@ Impressionism was first exhibited , bringing attention to Georges Seurat and Paul Signac . Though Theo kept a stock of Impressionist paintings in his gallery on Boulevard Montmartre , Van Gogh seemingly had problems acknowledging the new developments in art . 

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 The 1906 exhibition of Gauguin 's work left Picasso more than ever in this artist 's thrall . Gauguin demonstrated the most disparate types of art — not to speak of elements from metaphysics , ethnology , symbolism , the Bible , classical myths , and much else besides — could be combined into a synthesis that was of its time yet timeless . An artist could also confound conventional notions of beauty , he demonstrated , by harnessing his demons to the dark gods ( not necessarily Tahitian ones ) and tapping a new source of divine energy . 
