His expressive and emotive use of color and distinct brushwork became hugely popular and massively influenced Expressionism, Fauvism and early abstraction as well as various other aspects of 20th-century art. Today, van Gogh is generally regarded as the greatest Dutch painter since Rembrandt.
Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter, generally considered to be the greatest after Rembrandt van Rijn, and one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionists. He sold only one artwork during his life, but in the century after his death he became perhaps the most recognized painter of all time.
Overview
This is a list that shows references made to the life and work of Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) in culture
Music
• Nevit Kodallı: Van Gogh
Film and television
• Lust for Life, a 1934 novel by Irving Stone, was adapted into a film of the same name
Theatre
• In the mid 1970s Leonard Nimoy starred in a one-man play called Vincent that he'd adapted from the play Van Gogh by Phillip Stephens
Video games
• In Luigi's Mansion, there is a ghost named Vincent Van Gore. He is nicknamed the "Starving Artist" in-game
Van Gogh's art gained critical recognition after his death and his life story captured public imagination as an emblem of
misunderstood genius. His bold use of color, expressive line and thick application of paint inspired avant garde artistic groups like the Fauves and German Expressionists in the early 20th century.
Van Gogh’
s art had a significant impact on the art world. His bold and expressive style influenced many artists of his time and subsequent movements, such as European Expressionism and Fauvism. He challenged traditional techniques and paved the way for modern art.
Vincent van Gogh is remembered for both the striking colour, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms of his art and for the turmoil of his personal life. In part because of his extensive published letters, van Gogh has been mythologized in the popular imagination as the quintessential tortured artist.
