Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night in the year of 1889 during his stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul-de-Mausole. He actually lived really well in the hospital. He was allowed the most freedoms of any other patient that was omitted to the asylum. He was allowed to do things like read, paint, draw in his own room, and even to leave the hospital grounds. He was also given a studio all for himself! Even though Van Gogh suffered from relapses into paranoia and fits occasionally, it looked as if his mental health was making a recovery. Sadly, he did relapse. He began suffering hallucinations as well as having thoughts of suicide, plunging into depression. As you could expect, there was a shift in his work. He began incorporating darker colors into his art productions. Starry Night is a wonderful example of his shift into the darker colors. The blue color dominates the painting, blending the sky and the hills together. The little village at the base of the painting is shown in greys, browns, and blues. Although each building can clearly be seen outlined in black, the white and yellow in the moon and the stars stand out from the sky, drawing your eyes up into …show more content…
They had to swirl in order for the sky to get the look that it does. Every spot of color rolls with the clouds around the moon and the stars. In order to get this type of effect, you must have a steady hand so you don’t shake and splatter paint onto other parts of the picture. This type of painting may take years to perfect! Look at how the cypress trees bend with the curve of the branches, another masterpiece in its own. The whole painting gives a dreamlike and tranquilizing spell onto anyone studying the painting. The hills roll down into the little village below. To contrast the sky, the town is straight up and down and is made with rigid lines that disrupt brushstroke flows. The biggest thing about this painting is that the whole idea came completely from Van Gogh’s imagination
In the memoir The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion narrates her personal struggle of coping the realization of John being dead and will never resurrect to reunite with Joan. Joan exerts many sorrowful expressions as medical information and the vortex effects instill a sense of anticipation that John will soon come back. Consequently, Didion’s hopefulness opaques her true identity as she still associates herself as a married woman, when in reality, she needs to move on from John to reestablish her extroverted personality to the world once again. On the contrary, Didion comes to a consensus that John’s death was inevitable, Joan starts to ponder about her future with the exclusion of John. With Joan grieving
One of the most famous Post-Impressionists was the Dutch artist, Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh believed that art was a form of expression. Painting was an emotional and spiritual experience for him. He painted not only how he interpreted his surroundings, but his sensations and feelings on his subjects. One of his most famous paintings, Starry Night, is a perfect representation of this Post-Impressionistic style of painting.
The paining ‘Starry night’ was made when Van Gogh was in a mental asylum after he had an episode that resulted in him cutting of his own ear. The painting depicts the view from his asylum room, which Bennett could incorporate into his feeling of being trapped in a society that doesn’t accept him.
...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.
2. May 16, 1890 Vincent van Gogh left the asylum and took an overnight train to Paris.
Many people may look at the same painting and all come away with their own understanding. Every person has their bias and preconceptions that will influence their personal experience. In this paper we will discuss how Anne Sexton described in a short poem her experience of viewing Vincent Van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night. We will observe how Anne Sexton’s poem based on Van Gogh’s painting speaks about death in darkness as the painting seems to emphasise the light in the darkness.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Webexhibits , " Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh Saint-Rémy, c. 2 June 1889." Accessed March 29, 2014. http://www.webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/20/593.htm.
This type of painting uses linseed oil as a binder in the paint. Oil paint is very slow at drying which allows the artist to come back the next day to make corrections to the painting without putting fresh paint on the canvas. Giving the artist more control over these types of paintings than others. Most of the artists that use oil paints use thin layers of what is called glaze to build up the color on the painting. Oil paintings also make it easier to add texture to the art work as well. In the Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh uses oil paints to create this master piece. He also uses abstract which is where realistic things look unrealistic giving them different forms as well as colors. This painting was completed in 1889. The painting was the view that Van Gogh had outside of the window he worked out of when he was put into an
I am comparing my favorite painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh to The View of Toledo by El Greco. Both paintings are beautiful landscapes featuring the night sky. Starry Night, 29 x 36 ¼”, is an oil on canvas painting currently located at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Starry Night was painted in June of 1889 by post-impressionist Vincent Van Gogh. View of Toledo was painted by El Greco in 1598-99 during the Mannerism period. It is oil on canvas measuring 47 ¾” x 42 ¾” and is currently located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, NY.
Vincent Van Gogh never gave up his style and insight in his early work compared to his later work. I will discuss the comparison of the Potato Eaters and Starry Night and even though there are obvious differences, the core of his passion and eccentricities can be seen.
Art has been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Throughout history, there have been many artists who have made their mark on the art world, but one in particular is popular and well known among art enthusiasts. Vincent Van Gogh is one of the best known artists of all time and his paintings have become extremely well known and popular among art collectors. Throughout his lifetime, he painted hundreds of various paintings, but there is one painting that he is better known for, and that is Starry Night over the Rhone. Starry Night over the Rhone is an oil painting done on canvas. Vincent Van Gogh painted it in September of 1888 in Arles, France. Currently, the painting is housed in the Musee d’Orsay, which is located in Paris, France, Europe. Vincent Van Gogh’s piece of art is a well-crafted masterpiece that captivates his style very well. Accordingly, his use of dense brush strokes, visible hues that reflect off the water and overall perspective that conveys an organic, yet untamed take on nature.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
he artwork I chose to analyze is The Starry Night (June 1889) by Vincent Van Gogh.I
Vincent Van Gogh’s piece titled Starry Night, represents the artist’s insanity and isolation from the outside world. Van Gogh painted the view that was seen from the room, mixed with the emotions he felt inside. Starry Night is an oil painting on canvas and is two dimensional. The painting is found in the Museum of Modern Art located in New York. The variety of elements and principles of art, help to bring the painting to life, and help viewers understand what the art could represent.
My chosen artwork is "The Starry Night" by the famous Post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. He painted it in 1889 during his stay at the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum near Saint- Rémy-de-Provence in southern France. Van Gogh's paintings are among the most valuable and most collectible pieces of art in the world and his painting "The Starry Night" is one of the world's most recognizable works of art. Vincent William van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in the village of Groot Zundert,Netherlands.