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POPS19th-Century Painter Van Gogh Died Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot 29 July 1890 * Born: 30 March 1853 * Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland * Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot) * Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet, Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier; among his favorite authors, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - all of them interested in the poor and dispossessed. Complementing Van Gogh's dismal subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish tones. The masterpiece of the Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
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POPSExpo Daumier A virtual expo of famous french caricaturist Honoré Daumier's works @ the national library (BnF). http://expositions.bnf.fr/daumier/icono/index.htm
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POPSRue Transonian During the workers revolt of 1848 in France, police were quelling a riot in a workers hab block when a sniper shot a bullet at them from the fourth floor of a nearby building. The bullet missed, and the police responded to the shot by storming the forth floor and killing all the residents on the floor. This is a sketch by Daumier showing a family which was butchered for no reason, the father still in a night cap being killed in his sleep, laying on the body of his dead child.
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