Vincent van Gogh was born on 30^th March 1853, in the South of  the Netherlands. He started to learn how to paint in Goupil & Cie, International Art dealers with headquarters in Paris.

He  got bored with his work and he moved to London and then to Paris again, where he decided do become a priest.

In 1876 he returns to England and becomes a teacher and an assistant preacher. In 1877 he goes to Amsterdam but he was refused by a school of theology, so he decides to go to a missionary school near Brussels, and in 1878 he leaves for Borinage, a coal-mining area in southern Belgium.

In 1880 he finally decides to  become an artist 

Vincent Van Gogh was a famous painter but like any other painter, we just recognised his work after he died.  He had a special way to paint things, he didn’t draw like any other artist.

Most of his paintings are recognised internationally, but the most famous painting is one of  his  self- portraits. He has a lot of self-portraits.

In this painting you can see the lines that he does with the curves in the back, with blue shades, The chosen colours contrast with each other . These are the colours of a genius.

In this perspective you cannot notice the right eye, but if you could see both of them you would notice that the eyes have different colours, one is green and the other one is blue. At least, that is what happens in other self-portraits.