Vincent Van Gogh was an important painter of the 19thcentury. He was born in Holland, but he lived much of his life inprefix = st1 /France. He was a very emotional man, and there was much suffering in his life. His style of painting was very different from classical art. He painted pictures of sunny, hot regions ofFrance. He looked for interesting shapes and exciting colours. He liked to work freely and quickly.

There is a fast movement in many of his paintings. Sometimes the trees look like fire. The sun, the moon, and stars move rapidly in the sky. He also painted pictures of people.

Like his life, his art was always unusual and very emotional.

Paul Gauguin was another 19-century painter. He was French and a friend of Van Gogh. Before he became an artist, Gauguin had been a businessman for many years. He made a lot of money, and he likes to buy modern paintings.

At the age of 354, Gauguin decided to become a painter himself. Gauguin wanted to discover more important things about man. He went to a different part of Franceto live with the farmers. He painted pictures of French country people there. Two years later he went to live in a small place in the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles fromFrance. He wanted to learn about the simple life there. His most famous and interesting paintings were painted at that time.

1. What kind of artist was Van Gogh?
2. What country did he paint?
3. What parts?
4. What appears to be burning in his work?
5. Do his paintings have movement?
6. What moves?
7. At what speed?
8. Did he use people for subjects?
9. Where was he born?
10. Did he stay there his whole life?
11. Where did he go?
12. Did he have a lot of emotion?
13. Did it show in his work?
14. Who was his friend?
15. Was did he do for a living?
16. What did he do before that?
17. How old was he when he started painting?
18. Where did he move to?
19. Then where?
20. Which of his works did he create there?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. a painter
2. France.
3. sunny, hot regions
4. trees
5. Yes
6. The sun, the moon, and stars
7. fast
8. yes
9. Holland
10. No
11. France
12. Yes
13. Yes
14. Paul Gauguin
15. painter
16. had been a businessman
17. 354
18. to live with the farmers
19. a small place in the Pacific
20. His most famous and interesting paintings