I am sure that the first fact about Vincent Van Gogh or just a first though that comes to your mind when we say his name is that he is the artist who cuts his ear off and I think that is completely alright.. but in this article I would love to speak my thoughts about Vincent and how I see him as the symbol of motivation and an absolute dedication to art. When I started to really adore his work was until I read some facts that are absolutely mind blowing for me. Vincent Van Gogh is an self taught artist who started to draw sketches in his quite late age - almost before he reach 30 years old .. and since that time he did not just started right away painting all those amazing canvases with his best work - he did around 1700 sketches before he started to paint all those brilliant paintings. Its his dedication to art that I completely adore , its the fact that he fell in love into art almost before his 30 years old what I adore , and also he was a self taught artist...Which means he did not go to any prestige art academy - he learned by his own experiences and by the time of his life his art was not appreciated. He was not famous , he was not recognised as an professional artist throughout his life. He did not sell one canvas and he still had a dedication for art itself and enough motivation to keep painting and painting and creating and he never stopped being creative. He was painting in the rain , in storm... he never stopped. And this is the fact why I adore him so much. Vincent Van Gogh is motivation. He is the symbol of dedication to art and eternal creative bomb that never stopped working and bursting out with his creative mind. This is how I know Vincent.. He was and he is and he will be at least in my opinion an eternal symbol of absolute dedication to art.
If you would ask me about who is my most favorite artist when I was in my teenage years whenI was drawing once a year and I was dreaming about drawing actively and actively be working on my drawing skills my answer would be completely different. But now I definitely say it is Vincent Van Gogh - the eternal and the purest dedication to art. The symbol of the true love to art. At least for me ... And who is yours?
I love his art because there's this charm and the colors come of as surreal if you get a closer look at his paintings despite... the unusual style. Van Gogh's works are definitely worthy of praise but for me, i still favor Da Vinci's works. If you've seen his blueprints and sketches though. My art style while growing up revolved around that