Art and music are a very important part of a homeschool curriculum. I always appreciate a quality free resource that I can print from my computer. Here you will find a wonderful resource when teaching about artist Vincent Van Gogh and his masterpiece Starry, Starry Night.
Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry Night (1869) is one of the most widely viewed works by him. His painting has become one of the most celebrated art masterpieces of all time.
Here are some links which will help you to teach about this artist and his famous painting.
Starry, Starry Night | Free Coloring Page | The painting is of a scene that he saw from his window. Although it is a nighttime scene, it was painted from memory during the day.
Vincent Van Gogh Word Search Worksheet | Build reading skills with a free printable word search worksheet for Vincent van Gogh. Let your students know how many words there are to find and then ask them to complete the word search by identifying and circling the keywords found in the printable biography on the same website.
Vincent van Gogh | Printable Biography | Here, you will be able to print out Vincent Van Gogh’s Biography for easy learning.
Below is just an idea of what you will find in the biography section.
Vincent van Gogh was born March, 30th 1853 in a village in the Southern part of Netherlands, to Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Vincent’s sister described him as being a serious and introspective child.
In the early 1860’s Vincent began attending the Zunder Village School. He stayed there only one year. He then continued his education at home with his sister Anna. He stayed there until he was sent away to boarding school in 1864. In 1866 he began attending a middle school in Tilburg where he first got instruction on drawing.
Van Gogh spent his young adult life working for various art dealers. He also took an interest in the vocation of his father, and became a missionary worker in an impoverished mining region in Belgium in 1879. In the following year Vincent took his brother Theo’s suggestion, and decided to become a painter. After a few years of study he completed his first major work, The Potato Eaters (1885).
Van Gogh limited his color pallet to dark colors. When he saw Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris his style changed. He then began to incorporate brighter colours and developed a painterly style that was uniquely recognizable. Van Gogh worked hard, and produced over 2,000 paintings, drawings and sketches in the last ten years of his life. His best-known works were created in the last two years, a time in which he suffered from mental illness which eventually led to his suicide.
Van Gogh pioneered the art movement that came to be known as Expressionism, and dramatically influenced the art of the 20th century art, and specifically the Fauves (The Wild Beasts) and German Expressionists.
