Vincent Van Gogh free essay sample

Life, career, style, influences of 19th Cent. Dutch painter, focusing on Starry Night. In a letter written to his brother, presumably Theo, from Drenthe, in 1883, Van Gogh speaks of his inability to resist waiting for a landlord before beginning a homeward journey on his own during which he took the opportunity to make sketches of an orchard. Whether or not, like the poplars, this orchard, an apple orchard, so impressed him as an artist that it stayed with him for five years is not known from Van Goghs letters.