Largely self-taught Van Gogh gained his footing as an artist by zealously copying prints and studying nineteenth-century drawing manuals and lesson books such as Charles Bargue''s Exercises au fusain and cours de dessin. He felt that it was necessary to master black and white before working with color and first concentrated on learning the rudiments of figure drawing and rendering landscapes in correct perspective.Lets watch the exclusive work of the painter Vincent van Gogh that made him a vanguard figure in the history of modern art.