Haikus for Vincent Van Gogh I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798290063478)

This is the fifty-second bilingual haiku collection written by this author and introduces haikus featuring the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853-July 29, 1890). Van Gogh was born in Zundert, southern Netherlands, where his father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church. After a stint at the art dealer Goupil & Cie, run by Uncle Cent (as Vincent van Gogh II was referred to), in The Hague, London, and Paris, as a substitute teacher in London, and as an acting missionary in Belgium, van Gogh tried to become a painter and studied art.
Then in 1886, in order to study painting in earnest, he moved to Paris, where his younger brother Theodorus van Gogh (Theo, May 1, 1857-January 25, 1891) was an art dealer at Goupil & Cie. There, he met a plethora of
prominent Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters and eagerly absorbed their techniques.
After trials and tribulations for two years, he established his own hatching style, which was marked by curvy parallel brushstrokes and vivid colors. Finally in 1888, he moved to Arles in southern France, which he considered "Japan of Europe."
The rest is history. Van Gogh made many of his most famous paintings in Arles and its suburbs. Overall, within a ten-year period of active painting until his death in July 1890, he left us with as many as 1,032 drawings and about 861 oil paintings, as well as 144 watercolors and 10 lithographs.

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This haiku anthology traces the extraordinary life of van Gogh along with his impressive art works, and with haikus as a homage. Specifically, this collection presents 50 selected works by van Gogh until the time he left Paris for Arles and 50 corresponding haikus newly written by this author, with appropriate season words per the Japanese calendar and annotations.

Author: Mayumi Itoh
ISBN-13: 9798290063478
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2025
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d