Vincent becomes an artist

• Art and design
• History
• Primary Education
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)

Introduction

A short film about the start of Vincent van Gogh's career as an artist, for use as an introduction to other lessons about the artist and his work.

Instructions

General learning objectives

The students will be introduced to Vincent van Gogh and several of his famous paintings.

Background information

These days, people from all over the world go the Van Gogh Museum to see the paintings by Vincent van Gogh. In his own day, very few people appreciated his work. Vincent made about 900 paintings but only sold a small number of them. His brother Theo had a good job as an art dealer in Paris and sent money every month for Vincent to live on. In exchange, Vincent sent almost all his paintings and drawings to Theo. He also sent letters – lots of letters. So we know a great deal about Vincent's life and work.

Vincent becomes an artist