After Charles Blanc's treatise I came to believe colour goes beyond description and carries feeling, and I built my art on it: garish reds and greens for The Night Café, yellow for emotional truth.
In 1888 I leased the Yellow House in Arles and began its Décoration, a series of paintings for an artists' studio I hoped to share with Gauguin — probably the most ambitious design effort I ever undertook.
In May 1885 I answered a Paris dealer's interest with The Potato Eaters and a series of peasant character studies, the culmination of nearly 200 oil paintings made in two years at Nuenen.
I am a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. In just over a decade I made about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings: landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits in bold colour and expressive brushwork.
