Love of beauty is likely to have originated in their youth, when the future artist worked canvases seller in company showrooms Gupil. However peripeteia personal life, the experience gained in such a short period of time, and that is important, example of his father led him to believe that it is necessary to carry word of the Lord and peace to people. For example, a young preacher Vincent Van Gogh into the Belgian mining town called Borinazh. As a fine sense, he could not remain indifferent to what is seen - to the poverty and powerlessness. The realization that he is not able to as a make life easier for residents Borinazha makes Van Gogh's thinking about the meaning and usefulness of his profession, but rather, its senselessness. So, gradually, he departs from the work of a preacher and began to work with the outline nature.

The first of the 27-year-old Van Gogh had been in many awkward and not very good, but they were a first step towards understanding the true life calling. The first heroes of his works have become miners. It is their figures bent age-old weariness, engrave former preacher. Great support during these difficult years for the artist had his brother Theo, who is not just material help Van Gogua, but he was close to the spirit of man, appreciated his work. At the initial stage of an incredible creative success for the novice painter was the meeting with the Dutch master Mahouve, who helped Wang Gogua understand the basics of painting and discover some of the laws of art. But it is still the main way the artist had to itself, constantly being in the process of creative search in the study of nature.

Throughout the creative ways remained unchanged interest Van Gogh to the man. Therefore, it is man, the crown of creation, becomes the main character of his first works. The artist could not but disturb the lives of people with whom he lived side by side for several years and have witnessed their misery and misfortunes. In 1885, a canvas "potato eater". It is designed in a dark color, like a color reminiscent of the land which farmers cultivate. By creating a picture in a restrained color, the artist in this period more attention to the formal side.

After a trip to Paris and meet with the impressionist style in 1886, Van Gogh somewhat different. His paintings have become more emotional. They are filled with that light. The palette is enriched, it becomes more colorful, the picture seems transformed. Fully open the creative potential of the artist helping a trip to the south of France, in Arles, where he, as if in one breath, a number of beautiful and inspired work. Here, Vincent Van Gogh thought to embody a grand idea. In this blessed place, filled with ancient architectural monuments, he wanted to organize a colony of artists. It is no accident that this is where he creates a magnificent canvas titled "Garden of poets." Sam Van Gogh perceived urban garden as a special space where you can, making their thoughts, get rid of the seriousness of the concerns of everyday life. This garden, on Van Gogh's thoughts, is able to awaken the imagination and creative fantasy. The garden, like a living organism, its luxuriant grass, leaves and grass are experiencing constant updating and pose a law eternal. Trying to comprehend the eternal laws of the universe, and to reflect this in his works, Van Gogh masterful use of color symbolism, he plays his "consonance" and "Contrast", thus becoming his own canvases rhythm and sound. Thus, it is not difficult to notice that the yellow sun-shades are almost the main painter of canvases. Yellow - a symbol of life, mature and full of crops grown-handed workers, farmers (especially evident in the paintings "Sunflower" and "Sower").

Nature in pictures Van Gogh lived a full life of its own, it is dynamic, constantly remains in motion, is converted and modified. It can be a source of life for human beings, giving birth vskarmlivaya cereals and vineyards, and may turn away from him, following his own path. Thus, in the canvas "Red vineyards in Arles" artist praised triumph of vitality, thanks to the dynamic symbolism of purple, drilling-red, juicy orange hues. The film sounds like it turns into a hymn to nature.

As in nature, the artist is trying to find the spirit, and in the surrounding people attracted by the richness of his inner world. Van Gogh often chase him nice people, often their friends. Portraits "Arlezianka", "Postman taxi", "zouave" that radiate the love and respect, a sense of who the artist is in relation to the portrait. Contrast color these paintings becomes a symbolic embodiment of life and joy, the will to live, despite the difficulties endured by these people.

Just across the Van Gogh tried to find a human, so it was so difficult to live and work in a world in which people identified with the machine and its significance was assessed only in terms of its usefulness. Spiritual life is becoming increasingly popular, as the old context in the development of civilization and progress of collapse. This cause and subjective pessimistic sentiment led to the artist's illness (mental disorder).

In 1889 he became a patient clinics of Saint Remy. However, these years do not pass to the master trace, after the crisis, he continues to create. At this time, it creates a lot of portraits, landscapes with cypress, studies, copies of paintings Millet.

Among the most interesting - still life with iris, through which the artist continues to explore the possibilities of color combinations. On the topic of "Irises in Provençal cruse" appears four variations. Van Gogh wrote to work on these still-life: "One of them - on the pink background, where the effect is harmonious and soft, thanks to a combination of green, pink and violet shades. ... The second one was opposed. Placed in the sparkling lemon-yellow background with other colors yellow in the vase and the pedestal on which it stands, it creates a contrasting effect of additional colors, which are mutually reinforcing. "

Recent works by the artist, among them - "Landscape in Auvers after the Rain", admired the purity and beauty of the world like a virgin, were established in Auvers, a small village near Paris. It is here that one of the most respected artists in the twentieth century, away from life. And so it is not understood by their contemporaries, he left many descendants of the masterpieces and wonderful letters addressed to his brother Theo. These letters were among the most interesting reflections on the life and works of artists of XIX century.