Van Gogh Museum Essays

  • The Van Gogh Museum

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    The Van Gogh Museum I was lucky enough to visit the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in November of last year. The museum was located in somewhat of a museum park. The Rijks museum and the Stedelijk Museum are located on the same block. A beautiful landscape of ponds and trees are centered around them. The Van Gogh Museum has an audio tour available in all languages via a handheld tour guide. Unfortunately, funds limited me to get the audio tour, but I was able to nonchalantly follow a British

  • Shakespeares Childhood

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    mansions; quite the contrary, rather. The famous William Shakespeare is a thriving example of this theory; however, there is a main difference between Shakespeare’s fame from the normal rag-to-riches story, and his eminence is most comparable to Van Gogh. During the time when he was alive, his literature was not taken seriously. It was merely viewed as a form of writing not meant to be explored, and much less, praised. Aside from this, he came from an extremely poverty-stricken family, where most

  • For the Love of Art

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    one be proven wrong? The picture of the Virgin Mary on a ham sandwich that sold on Ebay, it that art? I don’t think the price or medium should be a factor. Van Gogh sold not one painting in his life time, yet only the wealthiest people in the world today could afford his work that has sold for millions at auction. I believe Van Gogh to be a great artist, not Hormel. Could we say art is in the eye of the beholder? A four year old that “paints” abstracts has taken the art world by storm, an

  • Trouble in Danto’s Artworld

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    avant-garde artist who claims an unoccupied space in the Museum of Modern Art and calls it “Missing Van Gogh;” it can be shown by Danto’s “is” of artistic identification that her work is art. It not only fulfills Danto’s requirements, but also, it distinguishes itself as revolutionary by expanding the style matrix, and as clever, by belonging to the once-problematic category of artwork called ‘indiscernibles.’ However, it can be shown that “Missing Van Gogh’s” lack of spatial and temporal boundaries adds

  • Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night at St. Rémy

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    Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night at St. Rémy Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night at St. Rémy of June 1889, expresses the comforting power and spirituality of the infinite night sky over the humbler, earthly brand of nature through a synthesis of exceptional visual power, elements of religious allegory, and of modern spiritualism. This work is the product of van Gogh's refusal to depict the purely imaginary, but willful manipulation of what is real in order to achieve a more powerful work, both

  • Vincent van Gogh

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    Vincent van Gogh In present time, Vincent van Gogh is probably the most widely known and highly appreciated person of postimpressionism. During his brief lifetime, Vincent’s work went almost unknown to this world. His work now hangs in countless museums throughout the world and is considered priceless. His work became an important bridge between the 19th and 20th centuries. The art-historical term, Postimpressionism was coined by Roger Fry a British art critic, who described the various styles

  • Book Analysis Of Vincent Van Gogh

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    My book report is about Vincent Van Gogh, as portrayed in the 1934 biographical novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter, who is most well known for his contributions to modern art. The novel covers a ten year period in Van Gogh's life, eventually leading up to his suicide in 1890. Within the book report, I will discuss Van Gogh's personality, his mental problems, and his relationships. I am going to be comparing the novel to the 1990 film, Vincent

  • Purple Robe and Anemones

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    experiment, earning a reputation as a rebellious member of his studio classes. Matisse’s true artistic liberation, in terms of the use of color to render forms and organize spatial planes, came about first through the influence of Gauguin, Cezanne and van Gogh, whose work he studied closely. Then, Matisse encountered the pointillist painting of Edmond Cross and Signac. By 1905 he had produced some of the boldest color images ever created. His images of dancers, and of human figures in general, convey expressive

  • Vincent Van Gogh Influences

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    that is Vincent Van Gogh. In his lifetime, he painted over 900 paintings, most being unsuccessful until years after he died. There were social, economic, and cultural influences on Van Gogh which affected his lifetime achievements. No matter how beautiful his paintings were, Van Gogh had ghosts, just like everyone else. Vincent Van Gogh struggled with severe depression, anxiety and some even say bipolar disorder, all ultimately leading up to his suicide in 1890. Vincent Van Gogh was a considerably

  • How Did Vincent Van Gogh Influence Art

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    Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch that was born on March of 1853, and killed himself 37 years later in July 1890. Van Gogh was a painter and drew landscapes, self-portraits, portraits, and still lifes. Van Gogh used bold lines, dramatic landscapes, and symbolic colors. He drew as a child and constantly drew and painted into adulthood. Unfortunately, he never thought his paintings were ever good and only sold one in his life time. Van Gogh never held a job and his brother Theo supported his and

  • Vincent Van Gogh: Woe Is Me

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    Vincent Van Gogh: Woe is Me During the last twenty years of the nineteenth century a new form of artistic painting formed. Postimpressionism was a form of art where the artist was highly individual and expressive. Some of the most creative painters in history helped to make the style a success. Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne are two of the most creative and popular painters among the postimpressionists, but not the master. The master of the postimpressionist movement was Vincent Van Gogh.

  • Importance Of Flemish Painter Peter Paul Rubens

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    Descent from the Cross in the Cathedral. In his painting the “Great Last Judgment” he creates an apocalyptic vision of the torments of the damned. Rubens’ workshop was open and he had pupils and assistants to help him. One of this assistants was Anthony Van Dyck, who became a Flemish Baroque artist. At this time many art works were created including two altarpieces that glorify the first saints of the Jesuit order, the “Miracles of St. Ignatius of Loyola” and the “Miracles of St. Francis Xavier”. In 1620

  • Analysis Of Sunflower

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    a picture about sunflower and most of people will be thinking Vincent Willem van Gogh who use his whole life and his feeling to create each pictures. Before he died, nobody know him and in people’s eyes he is a mental derangement and they didn’t know what he was thinking, even feel strange and understand about his behavior; however he like a sunflower use his energy to insist himself to grow. Vincent Willem van Gogh, his whole life was not very well. He was born in the Netherlands, in the 1861

  • Willem Van Gogh

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    Vincent Willem van Gogh was born to Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus on March 30, 1853. Vincent was given the name of his elder brother, who had died at birth a year before Van Gogh was born. He grew up in Zundert, Netherlands Before his life as an artist began, He drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties. Vincent studied theology on his own, but got denied to the schools that he applied to. He worked as a missionary in a coal mining community before pursuing art in

  • Vincent van Gogh

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    Vincent van Gogh was a poor artist in 19th century Europe that was constantly tortured by psychiatric issues. Van Gogh was born in Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1853. His father was a pastor and raised him with a very religious lifestyle and he originally set out to be a pastor himself. He was fired from his preaching job because of his intensity and fierceness and decided to be an artist. His many disorders eventually got the better of him and he was admitted to the St. Remy mental institution

  • Vincent Van Gogh Starry Night Short Note

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    Biography of Vincent Van Gogh – Starry Night (1889) Vincent Van Gogh an extraordinary artist was born in Holland, March 30, 1853 and died at a young age of 37 years old on July 29, 1890. He received his education in boarding school, then went to middle school without completing. Gogh did not further his education after dropping out. He showed no talent in art in his early childhood. However, his relative took him under his wing to work as an assistant. He was trained as an apprentice at his job.

  • The Vincent Van Gogh 's Irises

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    The Getty Center is a museum that not only holds a beautiful land of greenery and flowers, but also contains a wide range collection of artworks dating from the earliest to latest periods. At the time of my arrival at the exhibition, the weather was gloomy and humid which kept me from being outside most of the trip, but because I was indoors I was able to take my time to look through some of the galleries. Each artwork was put into designated buildings that matched up to the era they were made in

  • Vincent Van Gogh Research Paper

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    Vincent Van Gogh. A man whose complexity allowed him to understand the illness his mind holds onto to create the artwork that cannot be labeled a general name. He shows the realness composed through the serene phases of each portrait or drawing produced. Vincent Van Gogh. An enigma whose artworks, Sorrow and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, are held in multiple museums for the world to see. Born of Dutch descent on March 30, 1853, Van Gogh completed more than 2,100 artworks, many of them watercolors

  • Compare And Contrast Kahlo And Van Gogh

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    Art is a very important part of humanity’s history, and it can be found anywhere from the walls of caves to the halls of museums. The artists that created these works of art were influenced by a multitude of factors including personal issues, politics, and other art movements. Frida Kahlo and Vincent van Gogh, two wildly popular artists, have left behind artwork, that to this day, influences and fascinates people around the world. Their painting styles and personal lives are vastly different, but

  • Comparative Essay On Hatchet By Gary Paulsen

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    Vincent van Gogh was very different because he did not have a lot of friends and devoted his life to painting. The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.” (Van Gogh ) Gary Paulsen wrote a realistc book called Hatchet and shows lots of similar elements to van Gough.Vincent Van Gogh had made over 1000 paintings and only sold one. looking at Gary Paulsen's work and Vincent van Gogh's, they are similar in many ways. Authors and artists are similar because both utilize elements of their crafts