After getting up early in the morning, walking for a “couple” of blocks, and taking the subway five times, the group finally got to the MoMA. This museum is six stories high and filled with pieces that could leave you staying there for about a good week. On the fifth floor, the museum houses the work of Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and died 29 July 1890. He was a Dutch post impressionist Painter. Van Gogh loved art from an early age and began to draw as a child. He continued making drawings throughout his early life leading to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties. He produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. One of his early aspirations was to become a pastor and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where he began to sketch people from the local community.
In the exhibit holds one of Van Gogh’s famous pieces “The Starry Night.” The paint is applied thickly, so that the brush strokes build up on top of each other
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Portrait of Joseph Roulin, a postal employee in the southern French town of Arles; one of the few closest friends that Vincent Van go did a portrait of.
Vincent van Gogh’s paintings are just filled with so much color and beauty that it’s kinda sad when you learn about his death; he died at the age of 37 from suicide, a gunshot wound to the head. Even though he died at such a young age he was still a wonderful artist and the world will always remember him.