Art is more than mere brushstrokes on a canvas or stone chiseled into a subject. The variety of colors, jagged shapes, and the time invested into every piece makes art a matter of expression. This freedom given since the beginning of sketches on cave walls, has built momentum for movements and exlemptoray artists around the globe for centuries. Not all have gone down in history for all to admire, except for Vincent Van Gogh whose fame began in the late 1800s. Born in a Dutch home in the Netherlands, Van Gogh showed no interest in the idea of becoming an artist, excelling in other subjects, like languages, while enrolled in two boarding schools. By 1869, he became an art dealer, ditching his studies for income in Paris. Consequently, Vincent …show more content…
The sky is aquamarine, the water is royal blue, the ground is mauve. The town is blue and purple. The gas is yellow and the reflections are russet gold descending down to green-bronze. On the aquamarine field of the sky the Great Bear is a sparkling green and pink, whose discreet paleness contrasts with the brutal gold of the gas. Two colourful figurines of lovers in the foreground,’” (Shabi). Starry Night Over the Rhone also showed depth and detail by the specific rugged brushstrokes, giving a texture to the lulling ocean and calm sky. The overall mood of the painting is contentness with a hint of love, portrayed by the “lovers,” on the oceanside. But, shortly after this period, Vincent Van Gogh was increasingly struggling with his emotional well-being, including a long battle with bipolar disorder and psychotic episodes. Luckily, a vast majority of Van Gogh’s paintings were completed before his own emotions and mental instability became too …show more content…
Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting La Goulue arriving at the Moulin Rouge shows aspects of that art movement, with the subject showing dark outlines to pronounce the features and shape of the woman. Also, the other people included in the portrait include a heavy outline of their bodies even though, the clothes they are depicted to be wearing are dark. This is the same as Starry Night Over the Rhone (accent markkkkk), the two lovers on the water’s edge have a dark black or brown outline allowing the features and shapes of each person to be seen easier as the main subject in the painting has a dark scheme. However, the brush strokes by each artists are different. Van Gogh’s short strokes gave the entire painting a texture, making the subject matter appear as if the river is moving. Toulouse-Lautrec’s did not use the same technique while painting, so he did not achieve the motion appearance but, he did create a texture to the clothing and gave depth to the woman in the middle and the woman on the far
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest and most well-known artists, but when he was alive he considered himself to be a complete failure. It was not until after he died that Van Gogh’s paintings received the recognition they deserved. Today he is thought to be the second best Dutch artist, after Rembrandt. Born in 1853, he was one of the biggest artistic influences of the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh created a new era of art, he learned to use art to escape his mental illness, and he still continues to inspire artists over 100 years later.
Imagine creating some of the best art pieces in the world but never being fully credited or awarded for those pieces. Enter Vincent van Gogh. Born on March 30th, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, Van Gogh grew up in a poor household. His father Theodorus Van Gogh expressed an austere attitude as a country minister and his mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus portrayed her infatuation for nature through her watercolor based art. She would later pass on her watercolor technique to VanGogh. At 15 Van Gogh was obligated to quit school and acquire job to support his poor family. In June of 1873 Van Gogh was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London where he developed a passion for art. After being fired from a few meaningless jobs, Van Gogh decided to become an artist without any proper training or guidance. His parents doubted his abilities but his brother Theo, a successful art dealer believed in Vincent and offered him financial support. With the assistance of his brother,
Coming from a family greatly involved in art dealing, Vincent van Gogh was destined to have a place in the world of art. Van Gogh’s unique techniques and use of color, which clashed and differed greatly from the masters of the art world of his time, would eventually gain him the recognition as one of the founders of modern art. Van Gogh’s early life was heavily influenced by the role of his father who was a pastor and chose to follow in his footsteps. Although he abandoned the desire to become a pastor, van Gogh remained a spiritual being and was strong in faith. Plagued with a troubled mind and poor health, van Gogh’s life became filled with torment and isolation that would influence his career in later life as an artist. In his late twenties, van Gogh had decided that it was God’s divine plan for him to become a painter. His works would express through thoughtful composition and vibrant color, the emotions that he was unable to manifest in the real world. Van Gogh’s perception of reality and his technique would face harsh criticism and never receive full acceptance from his peers as a serious artist during his brief career. In a collection of correspondence entitled The Letters of a Post-Impressionist, Vincent confirmed these thoughts while writing to his brother Theo, “It irritates me to hear people say that I have no "technique." It is just possible that there is no trace of it, because I hold myself aloof from all painters” (27). His technique would later be marveled and revered by the art world. Vincent van Gogh’s legacy would thrive as it challenged the way the world envisioned modern art through his unique brush strokes and profound use of color as seen in his works The Sower and The Night Café. A brief look into...
The piece of art work that I have selected is called Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. The lines observed in this picture are implied lines. The colors used in this picture are blue, yellow, grey, a pinch of hazel ,and a brownish black.There was also may water colors used in this picture. The picture shows a variation of swirls and circles. In the background , you can see that there are many wave-like mountains. This makes the picture more eye catching. Overlapping is used in this picture to bring out the different shapes . Such as , the triangles, circles and the crescent like shapes. This picture has many meanings to it. I hope to learn more about it in the future.
Vincent Van Gogh’s famous art work was the Starry Night. The colour of blue was known to be an emotional blue of from his perspective however to this day it is known as one of the most beautiful pieces due to that fact of the attention put in to each colour and the amount of detail of layers used to create a certain aspect of emotion.
“This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote van Gogh to his brother Theo. This letter was used when he was describing his inspiration for one of his best-known paintings, The Starry Night which was created in 1889. The window that he refers to was in the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy, in southern France, where he tried to relax away from his emotional suffering while he kept making art.
...ded after his death, it was Artaud that claimed, “No, Van Gogh is not crazy, he was pushed to suicidal despair by a society which rejected his works.” Whether or not Artaud’s theory is correct, Vincent Van Gogh was in fact very ill and his paintings are famous for how lucid they are in illustrating the way his mental illness affected him. Van Gogh’s post-impressionist style is very unique of the late 19th century in France and most of his work was done with impasto technique as a way of expression. It is recognizable that his illness had a larger impact on his paintings’ subject matters than the style they were painted in. Vincent Van Gogh’s fame mostly came after his death, and while his paintings did help him to express himself, they now live on to visually translate the true, unwritten stories of his life and the effects paintings have with a mental illness.
Finally, at sixteen, Van Gogh wanted to figure out what it would be like to live on his own. So, he left home to earn a living at an art gallery. From that point on, Van Gogh couldn't seem to keep a steady job until about 1885.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1853. He was born into a middle class family that sometimes struggled financially. His grandfather was a famous preacher and his father was a minister so religion was pretty important within his family. The other passion within the family was art. His mother was an artist and three of his uncles and later his brother were art dealers. He got his first job at age 15, at his uncle’s art dealership. The fact that Vincent’s family was struggling at this time gave him the responsibility to leave school and go to work. Despite his family 's misfortune, van Gogh was fluent in 4 languages and his concern with art and religion kept growing. At the age of 20, he was transferred to the Goupil Gallery in London. It was there that he fell in love with art and English culture. He visited galleries in his spare time and in many aspects increased his understanding as a whole. In this period of time he started to fall in love with a woman named Eugenie Loyer. Vincent was prepared to ask her to marry him, but Eugenie didn’t feel the same as he did so she rejected the proposal and this caused van Gogh to suffer a mental breakdown. In this time he turned to God and threw away all unnecessary possessions except for the bible. He was fired from the Gallery for telling the customers “not to buy the worthless art.” Vincent then started teaching at a Methodist school and preached on the side a little. This was the first time in his life where he started to contemplate becoming a minister. He studied for a year planing to take the entrance exam to become a minister at the School of Theology in Amsterdam. He was denied entrance after refusing to take the Latin exam calling it a “de...
The painting express creative drive that they give form to immaterial ideas and feelings (this is relevant to abstract art). Since the author had mental health issues during the creative process of the painting I believe, he didn’t just used art and beauty themes to express his paintings, he wanted to show the world what he was feeling inside. Although, many people can view this painting’s major theme as Art and Beauty, I also viewed it as Art and Spiritual Belief. The reason why is because according to Sayre, Gogh wrote a letter to his brother by saying: “My paintings are almost a cry of anguish.” Gogh utilized a variety of colors on the spectrum, giving his paintings life. He often used the art style of Impressionists in that his paintings are depicted as he sees fit, and not how they are naturally viewed. His heavy brushstrokes and vivid colors portray the night sky as crazy and chaotic and the village below as peaceful and
Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the rectory of Zundert in Barbant (Burra). His father was a soft-spoken Dutch clergyman. The only thing Van Gogh got from his father, was the desire to be involved in the family church. Even at an early age, Vincent showed artistic talent but neither he nor his parents imagined that painting would take him where it did later in life. One of his first jobs came at the age of sixteen, as an art dealer’s assistant. He went to work for Goupil and Company, an art gallery where an uncle had been working for some time. Three of his father’s brothers were art dealers, and he was christened after the most distinguished of his uncles, who was manager of the Hague branch of the famous Goupil Galleries (Meier-Graefe). His parents were poor, so his rich uncle offered to take him ...
Vincent was an influential post-Impressionist painter born in 1853, Netherlands. With Theo van Gogh’s association, Vincent met reputable Impressionist painters such as Émile Henri Bernard and Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. Impressionism served as a platform for Vincent in developing his own style . He explored with colours, a stark contrast from his usual dark and sombre style. The influence of Japonisme charmed Vincent into residing in Arles where he began painting landscapes. Thereafter, Vincent voluntarily checked into Saint-Rémy sanatorium where his works reflected strong colours and lights of the countryside around him. His manic depression and epileptic condition, led to his suicide on July 27th 1890.
With its swirling colors and lines, Starry Night, incorporates not just the color and light that is found in the earlier works of these painters, but it shows how forms and feelings also came into play. "Waves and swirls" were applied so thickly in this piece that the paint itself cast shadows.
Although these paintings are landscapes, their themes are quite different. Van Gogh’s starry night is a more peaceful quiet depiction of the town below. View of Toledo is a more ominous painting that depicts a town below an angry stormy
...ter. His focus on nature and organicism is illustrated through the de-emphasis of the couple and the boats. The down-to-earth tone that the combination of the elements creates is magnificent because it just shows the effort and time Vincent Van Gogh put into to creating this highly sought after work of art. Starry Night over the Rhone will forever be one of the most distinguished, most sought-after, most popular artworks in the world, and it’s all thanks to the one and only Vincent Van Gogh.