This is a timeline of Van Gogh's life, from the 30th of march 1853, when he was born, to the 29th of juli 1890, when he commits suicide.
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	Vincent is in Paris, where he meets Pissaro, Signac, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec (on the picture above, right), Gaugin and Bernard. He really lights up here. Vincent rebelled against the mode of instruction at the Art Academy and in February 1886 he went to live with his brother Theo in Montmartre, an artist's quarter in Paris. Theo who managed the Montmartre branch of Goupil's (now called Boussod, Valadon and Cie.) introduced Vincent to the works of Claude Monet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas and other Impressionists. For four months Van Gogh studied under Fernand Cormon. There he met artists like Emile Bernard, John Russell and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Among his new friends Vincent counts the painters he refers to as the 'artists of the Petit Boulevard'- Toulouse-Lautrec, Signac, Bernard and Louise Anquetin. In this year he organizes a group show of his and his friends' paintings at a Paris restaurant. They often gather at Pere Tanguy's paint shop, where Vincent regularly sees Gauguin. Tanguy, who generously advances supplies to many young artists, occasionally displays Vincent's paintings in his store window. He arranges an exhibition of Japanese woodcuts at a Paris café and makes a few 'copies' after Japanese prints. Vincent buys Japanese prints from the noted art dealer Siegfried Bing and studies intensively. At this time his style became more defined and changed under the combined influence of the Impressionist approach as well as the Japaneseries techniques of painting by Japanese printmakers such as Hiroshige and Hokusai. Van Gogh became intrigued by the symbolism of colors a began to use them for the purpose of expressing whatever emotions the subject induces in him, as did the Impressionists, for the reproduction of visual appearances, atmosphere and light. 'Instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I have before my eyes,' he wrote, 'I use color more arbitrarily so as to express myself more forcibly'. He was confronted with the modern art of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. He discovered that the dark palette he had developed back in Holland was hopelessly outmoded and set out to master the modern technique, a feat he achieved in 2 years. His palette became lighter and he started to use pure colors and his brushwork became more broken. Vincent used to keep balls of wool with threads of different hues to sample and test the effect of different and often daring color combinations. His own work took on the expressive coloration of his Japanese examples.