Personal Matters
Vincent's Got Style
Name That Masterpiece
Why, Vincent?
100
The country where van Gogh was born, which can also be called the Netherlands.
What is Holland
100
This element of art can be described as bright and intense in most van Gogh paintings because Vincent often did not mix but used paint right from the tube.
What is color
100
Vincent's first major painting showing the hard lives of poor people.
What is "The Potato Eaters"
100
Vincent's reaction to his roomate, Paul Gauguin, moving out.
What is he cut off part of his own ear
200
This family member supported Vincent by regularly sending him money.
Who is his brother Theo
200
Vincent's brush strokes show in his paintings and can be described as looking like this element of art in a broken form.
What is line
200
"The Postman Roulin" is Vincent's portrait of who?
Who is The Mailman
200
The reason Vincent died an untimely death at the young age of 37.
What is suicide (he shot himself)
300
The main kind of artwork Vincent van Gogh did.
What is painting
300
Van Gogh's organic, free-flowing, broken-line brush strokes give eveything in his paintings a feeling of....
What is movement
300
The name of this room plus the name of the town where he was living at the time make up the title of this famous van Gogh painting done while Vincent was rooming with Paul Gauguin in Arles, France.
What is "Bedroom at Arles"
300
Vincent used dark, sad colors in his first drawings and paintings to show how hard life was for these people.
Who are the poor
400
Four jobs Vincent tried before deciding to become an artist.
What are art dealer, teacher, bookseller, and preacher
400
Van Gogh's artwork really expresses his...
What is feelings(emotions)
400
Vincent was said to have been a patient in a mental hospital when he painted this most well-known masterpiece by candlelight at night.
What is "Starry Night"
400
Brightly colored examples of this kind of artwork influenced Vincent to start using bright colors.
What is Japanese
500
The country where Vincent died.
What is France
500
Vincent probably used alot of paint because he put it on this way.
What is thick
500
This may have been Vincent's last painting as it shows roads leading to a scary sky and crows that look like bats.
What is "Wheatfield with Crows"
500
Vincent was physically unhealthy because he often bought paint instead of this when he didn't have money for both.
What is food
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