Questions and Answers
Vincent van Gogh
1.
When was Vincent Van Gogh born?
March 30, 1853
2.
What was the profession of Vincent van Gogh's father?
Clergy
3.
What was the name of Vincent's brother, who was an art dealer?
Theo
4.
How old was Vincent van Gogh when he died?
37
5.
He was incredibly productive as an artist, with well over 2,000 confirmed works.
True
6.
With whom did van Gogh exchange frequent letters that have remained an excellent source of information to his thinking?
His brother
Answer the following questions.
7.
Answer the following questions.
What is the title of the painting?
What is the title of the painting?
Irises
8.
Answer the following questions.
What year was it painted?
What year was it painted?
In 1889
9.
Where did van Gogh complete The Potato Eaters?
Nuenen
Match the pairs.
10.
Paul Gauguin's Armchair
1888
11.
Arles
The Yellow House
12.
The Church at Auvers
Musée d'Orsay
13.
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam
14.
Which type of malady did Van Gogh suffer?
Seizures
15.
In 1886, Vincent van Gogh attended art classes at the Amsterdam Academy.
False
16.
Vincent van Gogh is generally regarded as the greatest Dutch painter since ____________.
Rembrandt
17.
The painting was painted in 1890. It's Portrait of ___________. In 1990, the painting received $82.5 million at auction.
Doctor Gachet
18.
What's a name of the girl, that van Gogh painted in 1882?
Sien
19.
Vincent cut off his ear after an argument with _____________.
Paul Gauguin
20.
Van Gogh has never painted a single artwork entitled "Sunflowers." Instead, he did several renditions of the large yellow blossoms in two separate series of sunflowers, one during a stay with his brother in Paris in 1887 and another during his tenancy in Arles from 1888 to 1889.
True
21.
It was one of Vincent's main sources of inspiration. What is that?
Japanese printmaking
22.
Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest with a 7mm revolver. He died ____ hours after the incident.
30