The perfect diary for the year you make it happen. TASCHEN's Diary Van Gogh 2004 - beautiful to look at and easy to use. A new picture every week, every week a new page. With year planners, and all national holidays. Spiral-bound, it opens flat. The perfect diary for the year you make it happen. From the early gloom-laden paintings to the work of his final years under a southern sun in Arles. Van Gogh - The best selection of this great impressionist Van Gogh craved recognition during his lifetime but was denied it till after his self-inflicted death. Today he is universally seen as one of the great forerunners of 20th century painting, and one of the tragic masters of art.