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From: Arts & Activities | Date: September 1, 2004| Author: Hubbard, Guy | Copyright information

ABOUT THIS SELF-PORTRAIT

Vincent van Gogh chose mainly to paint people and landscapes. He is best known for working with bright colors and using paint very thickly in a way that is called "impasto." The use of impasto painting is quite evident in this self-portrait because, even though the reproduction is fiat, we can see the separate brushstrokes the artist used and can tell the paint was thick and sticky.

Van Gogh's intense gaze in this self-portrait focuses...

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