Painter · Aries · born March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Netherlands

Vincent van Gogh painted for barely a decade and produced around 2,100 works, almost none of which sold in his lifetime. His letters to his brother Theo record both the method and the cost: a painter working at enormous speed, in enormous distress, toward a way of using colour that the rest of art had not caught up with.

Their Aries side

Aries urgency runs through the work — painted fast, painted first, and argued with the result later.

Notable works

• The Starry Night
• Sunflowers
• The Potato Eaters
• Café Terrace at Night

Achievements

• Around 2,100 artworks in roughly a decade
• Pioneered the expressive use of colour later central to modern art
• The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam holds the largest collection of his work
• Among the most recognised painters in the world

In their words

• “I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
• “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

Birth chart facts

• Sun sign: Aries
• Chinese zodiac: Water Ox
• Life path number: 5 — The Free Spirit
• Born on a Wednesday

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