Montmartre Mills and Vegetable Gardens by Van Gogh Post-it Notes

Montmartre Mills and Vegetable Gardens by Vincent Van Gogh, oil on canvas 1887, is a horizontal, panoramic landscape painting of the hilltops with windmills and farmers tilling in their fenced vegetable gardens in the still rural Montmartre of late 19th century Paris. Working in the Impressionist manner of short strokes and small dots of mixed colors, Van Gogh captures a fleeting moment in time under grey skies, accented with small flashes of bright color. Vincent Van Gogh (1853 - 1890) was a Dutch painter of the Post-Impressionist movement known for bold, expressive drawing, swirling brushstrokes and intense, heightened colors. In early adulthood Van Gogh worked as an art dealer, teacher and pastor before taking up the full time study of drawing and painting in his late twenties. Influenced by Rembrandt, the 19th century Realists and Barbizon school, Van Gogh’s early paintings featured studies of workers and peasants in somber earth tones. Moving to France in 1886, Van Gogh met with the startling innovations of the Impressionist painters and began to apply their approach to color and subject matter, which continued into the mature style for which the artist is most renowned. Van Gogh produced many hundreds of drawings and paintings including portraits, landscapes, still life and flower paintings, and numerous self-portraits that became a dominating influence on the modern art of the 20th century and made him one of the most popular artists of all time.