Compare And Contrast Van Gogh And Monet

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Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter from March 30th, 1853 to the time of his early death in July 29th, 1890. He was a Dutch artist who traveled between Hague, London, and Paris where he created some of his best works of art. One of van Gogh’s famous starlit night sky paintings was the Starry Night Over the Rhone. The canvas that van Gogh chose to paint his famously recognized piece of art was constructed using an oil base paint on a 28.5 inch by 36.2 inch canvas. Oscar-Claude Monet, also a Impressionist painter, was born on November 14th, 1840 and passed away on December 5th, 1926. Monet lived in Giverny where he painted various different landscape projects that later became subjects of some of his best-known works. Considered to be one of Monet’s “most poetic expressions,” Impression, Sunrise is illustrated using oil paints on a 18.9 inch by 24.8 inch canvas. Van Gogh’s and Monet’s paintings are similar to each other in that they are both maritime paintings, …show more content…

Monet incorporates mostly cool, dull colors of various blues and greys in his painting, but also includes splashes of warm colors noticed in the sun, sky, and the sun’s reflection in the water. The sun is placed rising over a foggy harbor where the sun is emphasized by it’s bright red-orange color contrasting against the very misty blue-violet morning sky. The clouds are colored by the rising sun’s reflection. Below, just below the center of the painting, a small rowboat with two figures inside floats in the bay. Various boats and ships are softly seen in the back, creating a sense of depth to the painting. The painting is supposed to be his own visual impression of how the port feels in the morning, and not an actual representation of the port on any given day. Which almost gives the viewer the feel that he or she is looking out the same window that Monet did that Spring

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