"Portrait of Dr. Gachet"

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This paper examines Van Gogh's painting and explains how the artist impetuously and arbitrarily exploited the new color dimensions of the Post-Impressionist period within the work. The style is examined and the person behind the portrait is explained to be a doctor that looked after van Gogh during the later part of his life.

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"As to Van Gogh's painting style which is a very important component of his artistic life, the thickness, shape and direction of his brush strokes created a tactile counterpart to his intense color schemes through thickly-loaded brush moves back and forth or at right angles, giving a textile-like effect; Van Gogh also would take the paint tube and squeeze dots or streaks upon the canvas. This bold, almost slapdash attack upon his canvases, at least in the eyes of his contemporary art critics, was viewed as highly disturbing; thus, it could be said that Van Gogh, through the use of different paint strokes, both infuriated and calmed the viewer."

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