...Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853–1890), a Dutch Post-Impressionist. Considered as one of the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In the peak of his moments, he produced over 2,100 artworks, including 800 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They are consisted of landscapes, still life, portraits and self-portraits, which all contributed to the fundamental pieces of modern art. He committed suicide with a gun at the age of 37 after years of feeling that no one could understand him, in his quote, “One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.” Poverty was also a major factor that led to this final decision, when his income was hard to cover him to continue to work as an artist. He...
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...Vincent Willem Van Gogh, born March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands, made paintings that are among the most treasured objects in our world today. But during his lifetime Vincent Van Gogh was unnoticed, every one of his works were ignored. In his time Vincent was a normal peasant of the middle class, and spoke four languages, Dutch, German, English, and French, while also studying Greek and Latin, but refused to accept the use of those languages. In 1885, he drew what he considered to be his first major work, The Potato Eaters. After that he continued to use depressive earth tones. From doing all these paintings with these colors, is what may have led to his self-inflicted gunshot wound. Van Gogh suffered from frequent depression and...
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...The year was 1200. Another Frenchman, Robert de Boron fabricated the quest for the Holy Grail ("King Arthur-The Legend”). Number 73, Vincent van Gogh (Skiena). This Dutchman from the late 1800s was an aimless rover until he moved to Paris with his brother in 1885 (“Vincent van Gogh”). It was then that Van Gogh’s calling as a painter flourished as he studied impressionism. Perhaps just as famous as his paintings, Van Gogh suffered from a mental illness which led to him cutting off his own ear and to his eventual suicide in 1890. Johanna, Van Gogh’s sister-in-law, collected his paintings and brought them to galleries in Paris and Van Gogh’s fame grew. Today, Van Gogh is considered to be one of the best painters of all time with many of his 3,000 paintings displayed worldwide. The year was 1200. Layamon composed the first tale of King Arthur to be written originally in English. In his version, when Arthur was taken to the Isle of Avalon after the battle at Camlann, he was healed of...
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...Vincent Van Gogh was born in Brabant village of Zundert on March 30th, 1853. He was the child of a Protestant minister, under the name of Theodorus Van Gogh, and Anna Carbentus. Van gogh was well educated and excelled in all fields. This caused him to transfer from the village school in Zundert at age 11 to a boarding school in Zevenbergen. At this age, he showed little no no special artistic abilities. He went to secondary school at a different boarding school in Tilbury, and he received outstanding grades, especially excelling in languages. This was the beginning of a long battle with depression, and anxiety. Van Gogh quit school halfway through his second year, 1867-68, for unknown reasons. At age 16, Van Gogh first showed interest in the arts. His family struggled financially, and he was forced to get his first job as the youngest clerk and trainee at an international art dealer, Goupil & Cie....
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...Vincent van Gogh, a largely self-taught artist, was a leader of the Post-Impressionist art movement. Although, during his lifetime he remained mostly unknown and poor, van Gogh is regarded as the greatest of the Dutch painters. His use of vivid colors and use of emotions, such as introspection, combined with his unique brush strokes changed the way people paint and expanded what art was and is capable of. Van Gogh’s brilliant artistry made him the subject of content by Adolph Hitler during WWII. In the late 1930’s, Hitler ordered thousands of works of art that he deemed degenerate to be rounded up and burned. It is believed that six works by van Gogh, including one of his most infamous self-portraits, “Painter on the Road to Tarascon,” were...
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...true that I involve myself much in the fine arts, especially music, yet I never felt like I created worthwhile works. As such, anything that did not reach my high standards did not see the light of day. That all changed when I stumbled upon a biography of Vincent van Gogh. Despite being somewhat familiar with his pieces, I had never given them much attention. So, in order to better acquaint myself with his life and works, I decided to sit down and plow through it. Van Gogh’s life is so fascinating yet so tragic. In spite of illness, both physical and mental, he pushed onwards through life, whether that meant working as a missionary in Belgium or being a mental patient in France. He did so until he physically could no longer go on and committed suicide at the age of 37. Reading the biography made me gain a greater appreciation for his works. I admired his ability to create rich and vibrant pieces of art even when suffering the darkest moments of his life. One only needs to glance at The Starry Night to notice the dreamlike scene enhanced by the vibrant, swirly palette with multiple shades of blue, yellow, and green. In fact, many of his paintings have this imaginative, pastel quality to them. If one were to see him...
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...They always say there is a thin line between being a complete genius and mental; then Vincent Van Gogh went mental before the world could call him a genius. Vincent Van Gogh is now considered one of the best Dutch painters with painting being sold in millions of dollars. The uniqueness and amazing techniques of the usage of colors and the meaning of each of his paintings is phenomenal. Not to mention that each painting took a part of Van Gogh’s life in it. In this report I will go through signature paintings of self-portraits and their repetition of those paintings. Vincent Van Gogh The Dutch painter is considered to this day a remarkable artist, with his unique style of painting guaranteed that name greatness. Hundreds of paintings, thousands...
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...Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30,1853 in the Netherlands he was one of six children. Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter. In just over a decade, van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. Van Gogh was deeply religious in his younger years and he aspired be a pastor. Throughout Van Gogh's life his brother Theo has been a very influential in his life he supported Van Gogh both emotionally and financially. Throughout Van Gogh’s lifetime has written over 800 letters and most of them where to his brother Theo. In 1879 van Gogh worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium, where he began to sketch people from the local...
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...Luis Bojorquez Mr. Essick IB Visual Arts September 19, 2014 Artist Research Report: Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1850. He was a Post-Impressionistic painter and his work will forever be remembered for rough beauty, emotional honesty, and bold colors.Even though he highly influenced the 20th Century, he had a mental-illness, remained poor, and he was basically unknown the entire time he was alive. Van Gogh died at the age of 37 on July 29, 1890 because of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, he was in France. Van Gogh used to use carton to practise instead of canvas. He found it easy to carry and really cheap. His particularly poor grade of board was usually 2mm thick in two layers of hand-pressed and unrefined wood pulp, and with a clear priming of pale grey or white colour. When Van Gogh normally used canvas he used the standard...
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...Final Paper Art Appreciation Due Sunday December 7th Noon NOTE: Late papers will be graded down accordingly and will NOT be accepted past the 8th !!! Your final will consist of a paper that spans the terminology and knowledge you attained in this course. Your paper should be five pages in length with corresponding images attached to the END of the written portion. Sources must be listed at the end of the written portion, this is not included as a part of your five page minimum. Do not use Wikipedia as your main source of information (I will know!!) Yet you can use Wikipedia as a starting place for your research (at the bottom of most Wikipedia pages there are a list of source links that you can use as a source of information.) Papers are to be double spaced and maximum type is 12pts. Please, Please, PLEASE spell-check. When dealing with art and terms it is very important that you use the correct terms and vocabulary! Points will be taken off for poor grammar. Artist that you can do are: Gustav Klimt, Louise Nevelson, Kathe Kollwitz, John Singer Sargent, Auguste Rodin, Vincent Van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Diego Rivera, Georges-Pierre Seurat, Wangechi Mutu, Camille Claudel, Georgia Okeefe, or an artist that you and I will discuss if you have a specific artist in mind. The information you provide should include artist history, history of the movement that the artist belonged to (if any), Your personal reaction to the art (before and after your investigation...
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...Kenia Velado Bio 100-10 4/14/14 kenia_velado@yahoo.com Synesthesia Most of us are pretty familiar with world renowned health conditions and diseases mainly because of the number of people affected by them. But what about the ones that are not that common. One of them is a condition called Synesthesia. It is a phenomenon that has been known for about 200 years. Synesthesia has helped scientists learn more about brain functions and has opened a new pathway of creativity. Have you ever wondered what the color blue smells like? Or what the letter A taste like? Well people who have Synesthesia might be able to answer this. Now if we break the word apart we have "syn" which means together and "aesthesis" which means sensation. Synesthesia is a condition in which a person's senses are merged into each other. People who have this condition are called Synesthetes and therefore tastes shapes, hear colors and feel sounds. They also "experience colors from reading letters and numbers" (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0964704X.2010.528240#.U0iAQvldUue) and might taste the words they read as well. Synesthetes all experience it differently so they do not all see, hear, smell and touch the same way. This condition is very rare but scientists have been studying it for decades. George Sachs wrote a latin medical dissertation in 1812 in which he first introduced the phenomenon. Later on in 1848, Charles-Auguste-Édouard...
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...HUMANITIES 1 (RESEARCH PAPER) HISTORY OF PAINTINGS AND ARTISTS IN THE WORLD ADRIAN M SITCHON PROF. PEREZ 4TH YEAR/BS.HRM/NS (SUBMITTED BY) TABLE OF CONTENT INTRODUCTION HISTORY BODY * EASTERN PAINTING * WESTERN PAINTING * 20th-CENTURY MODERN * AND CONTEMPORARY DEFINITION OF TERMS * FAMOUS PAINTERS * AND BIOGRAPHY * Paintings of famous painters CONCLUSION RECOMMENDATION REFERENCE INTRODUCTION: Painting can be done in a variety of media. For example, Oils, Watercolour, Acrylics, Gouache and Tempera. Paints are made from a pigment, and a binder. Binder is relatively cheap, while pigment is much more expensive. Pigments are a colored powder, made from organic or inorganic materials. (This is different than a colorant, which dyes or stains a color.) All paints use the same basic pigments, but the binder changes. The binder for acrylics dries quickly and the paint is more like a plastic than oils which have an oil based binder and dry slowly. Oil Paints are often built up in layers or glazes. The other paints---Watercolour, Acrylics, Gouache, and Tempera---are water-based, meaning the paint can be diluted with water and clean-up can be done with soap and water. Oil paints, on the other hand, require paint thinner to clean brushes. The number and variety of painting techniques is endless. Besides quality of paint, factors affecting color quality include: paint opacity, glossiness of painting surface...
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...11/2/12 UNHP Port of Dieppe, Evening by Claude Monet I have chosen to write my paper on Claude Monet’s painting “Port of Dieppe”. This painting is in the Dixon Art Gallery and Gardens and part of their Ritchie Collection. After researching a little, I found that Claude Monet was a French painter that lived between the times of 1840 to 1926. He was a founder of the French Impressionist Paintings. He had a number of paintings throughout his life, but to me his painting “Port of Dieppe” sticks out more than any other painting I have seen in the art galleries. This painting was completed in Eighteen Eighty-Two, and is an impressionist style of painting. You can see this with the many short strokes Monet has used to make up this entire painting of a seaport with the skyline above a city and boats throughout the water. This painting somewhat can remind one of the painting “Starry Night” from Vincent Van Gogh. I say this, because of the style of painting that it is. All of the small strokes and blurry features of everything in the painting give it a weird look. It is not a detailed picture of exactly everything that he can see, but at the same time there is a lot of detail in every stroke that he has used to make up this entire painting. This is something that attracts me to this painting. The colors in this painting are very vibrant too. From the title and as you can tell in the painting, it is late in the day as the sun is going down. The sky is made up of many different colors...
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...University of Sydney Business School Referencing Guide This referencing guide has been prepared by the Business Programs Unit for use in Units of Study within The University of Sydney Business School. It is based on the Harvard referencing style. Contents 1. How to use this guide...........................................................................................................................2 2. Some useful terms ...............................................................................................................................2 3. Examples – when and how to reference ..............................................................................................3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 Placement of in-text references....................................................................................................................3 Summarising a source ..................................................................................................................................3 Paraphrasing a source .................................................................................................................................3 Short quotation .............................................................................................................................................4 Long quotation .................................................................................
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...University of Sydney Business School Referencing Guide This referencing guide has been prepared by the Business Programs Unit for use in Units of Study within The University of Sydney Business School. It is based on the Harvard referencing style. Contents 1. How to use this guide...........................................................................................................................2 2. Some basic referencing terms and rules ..............................................................................................2 3. Examples – when and how to reference ..............................................................................................3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 Placement of in-text references....................................................................................................................3 Summarising a source ..................................................................................................................................3 Paraphrasing a source .................................................................................................................................3 Short quotation .............................................................................................................................................4 Long quotation ........................................................................................
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