Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear, 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh.
Essay Vincent van Gogh, the eldest son of a Dutch Reformed minister and a bookseller’s daughter, pursued various vocations, including that of an art dealer and clergyman, before deciding to become an artist at the age of twenty-seven.
The “Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear”, painted by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in 1889. The painting captures van Gogh’s self-inflicted wound following his infamous incident of self-mutilation where he intentionally sliced his left ear with a razor blade following a heated argument with his friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin.
Self picture is a 1889 oil on canvas painting by the post-impressionist craftsman Vincent van Gogh. The photo, which may have been van Gogh’s last self-picture, was painted in September that year and he took the composition with him to Auvers-sur-Oise, close Paris, where he demonstrated it to Dr Paul Gachet, who thought it was totally obsessive.
Van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1888 It was painted during a rare period of excited optimism, while Van Gogh awaited the arrival of his hero, the avant-garde painter Paul Gauguin. The lonely and passionate Vincent had moved to Arles, in the South of France, where he dreamed of setting up a community of artists with Gauguin as its mentor.
They proved to be a disagreeable pair and quarreled often, sometimes violently. The evening of December 23, 1888 during one of their arguments, Van Gogh had a seizure during which he threatened Gauguin with a razor, but then injured himself, severing part of his left ear.
Self-portrait 1889 is a Post-Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting created by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889. It lives at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. The image is in the Public Domain, and tagged Self-portraits. Source.
Primarily self-taught and unappreciated during his lifetime, Vincent van Gogh made over 900 paintings and 1,100 works on paper during the decade that he worked as an artist. Influenced by Jean-Francois Millet and the Barbizon School artists, van Gogh’s early work comprises dour portraits of Dutch peasants and depressing rural landscapes.