...For my final exam I am choosing to compare and contrast Vincent Van Gogh’s, “The Starry Night” from the post-impressionism era to Edvard Munch’s, “Starry Night” from the expressionism era. The reason both paintings caught my eye was because of the vibrant use of colors to represent nighttime. Usually when someone thinks of nighttime, they think gloominess and darkness but here you see the yellows and blues used to show how beautiful this time of day can be. As stated before both paintings represent how the artists’ view nighttime. Both artists use very bright colors to represent how they view the sky. Bright blues and yellow are used all throughout both paintings. Big bright stars and calm, quiet villages are seen in both paintings. Not...
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...The Starry Night is a miraculous painting created by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889 and is arguably one of the greatest paintings of all time. In this painting Van Gogh depicts an image of an actual starry night over a small town in France named Saint-Rémy. Using oil on canvas, Van Gogh painted a combination of 11 swirly stars as well as a crescent moon. The most noticeable feature of Starry Night is a silhouette of a green cypress tree. Starry Night gave me a feeling of relaxation because on a clear night my number one thing to do is relax and to not be concerned with life’s problems. Starry Night is painted with heavy brushstrokes and has a very rich texture. Starry Night did not become such a well-known painting until Van Gogh’s death a year later in 1890. After his death, the original painting was sold between numerous people before the Museum of Modern Art acquired it and placed it in their museum in New...
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...A good piece of art makes the audience have an emotional response causing the audience to escape reality and use their imagination. For example, Vincent Van Gogh’s painting, Starry Night changed the way other artists started painting. This painting conveyed how Van Gogh was feeling at the time because he used his imagination to embellish it, which allowed the audience to see Van Gogh’s dreams and nightmares. This caused a raw emotion to occur inside of people, demonstrating that art can get an emotional response from the audience. This shows that a good piece of art allows the audience to use their imagination. By allowing the audience to use their imagination it lets them create a story about what this piece of art means to them. This also...
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...Starry Night is a piece of artwork, which was produced in June 1889 by a famous French painter named Vincent van Gogh, while he was in his place of asylum. The oil painting, which is done on a canvas material is 73.7 cm tall and 92.1 cm in width (Thomson, 2008). It is majorly formed of landscapes, and it depicts full characteristics of post-impressionism art movement. Currently, this painting is owned by the Museum of Modern Art, which is based in New York. This piece of artwork belongs to the post-impressionist art movement, which was formed later after the impressionist period. The artists of that time regarded the features of impressionism rather backward and repetitive, and therefore, they started up a new art movement: the post-impressionism (Crispino, 2008). This particular movement introduced new styles of painting; for example, they began using a wide variety of vibrant colors in paintings. Post impressionism artists also used a combination of thick and thin quick strokes of lines in their paintings, to differentiate their products from those of the more traditional impressionism artists. To be more unique and recognized as an independent art movement, the artists of the post-impressionist movement began drifting away from the common styles used by impressionist artists; for example, they began moving away from the idea of depicting...
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...Paper Aug. 30, 2010 Feelings Waltz on the Canvas Vincent Van Gogh and His Impact on Art World “ ... Starry starry night, Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist’s loving hand…” In the song “Vincent”, Mclean reveals one after another beautiful painting of Van Gogh through the singer’s gorgeous words. At the same time he expresses his understanding and respect to the gifted artist Vincent Van Gogh. Even though Van Gogh was suffered by hunger and cold, misunderstanding and distorting, he had always immersed in creating art with passion. His inspiration of art creating was never surrendered to the fate. Speaking was never Van Gogh’s strength. He preferred to communicate with others through his art works. Van Gogh said, “…art wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.” The art world should be grateful for Van Gogh’s special way of communication. Otherwise there will never be Post-impressionism. Vincent Van Gogh lived long time ago, and yet his work is still varying many perspectives of people’s life. The legacy of Vincent Van Gogh led the flourish of the Post-impressionism and Expressionism, impacted many artists’ art style in nowadays, and changed the way mankind views the beauty of the world and society. After Van Gogh died, people started to notice him and his artwork...
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...Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) Art Appreciation Work Cited: www.vangoghgallery.com/misc/biography.html www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent.htm http://www.biography.com/people/vincent-van-gogh-9515695 http://www.vggallery.com http://vangogheurope.eu vangoghletters.org/vg/bibliography.html Biography of Vincent Van Gogh In Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30th 1853 an artist by the name of Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born. His father Theodorus Van Gosh was a minister and his mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus was none other than an artist herself. The couple was determined to have a child named Vincent Van Gogh as Van Gogh was born exactly one year after the still birth of his brother whom his parents also named Vincent. They seemed to have very few issues in this area though as they went on to have six children total. Van Gogh is known to have struggles within himself but I imagine from the very beginning that it would be hard to see your name and exact birthday (one year older) on a tombstone. Maybe this could have a factor or play some sort of role in the emotional pains experienced by him. At the age of 15 Van Gogh was forced to quit school and begin working due to his family's finances and struggles. He started working for his uncle Cornelis at his art dealership/gallery called Goupil & Cie which is a firm of art dealers is the Hague. Although Vincent Van Gogh dropped out of school he still managed to become fluent in French, German...
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...Starry Night Analysis Date of Creation: 1889 Height (cm): 73.70 Length (cm): 92.10 Medium: Oil Support: Canvas Subject: Landscapes Characteristics: Post-impressionism Framed: Yes Art Movement: Post-Impressionism Created by: Vincent van Gogh Current Location: New York, New York Owner: Museum of Modern Art Starry Night Analysis Page's Content Composition Use of color Use of Light Mood, Tone and Emotion Brushstroke Starry Night Composition Top Starry Night Vincent van Gogh The night sky depicted by van Gogh in the Starry Night painting is brimming with whirling clouds, shining stars, and a bright crescent moon. The setting is one that viewers can relate to and van Gogh´s swirling sky directs the viewer´s eye around the painting, with spacing between the stars and the curving contours creating a dot-to-dot effect. These internal elements ensure fluidity and such contours were important for the artist even though they were becoming less significant for other Impressionists. Thus Starry Night´s composition was distinct from the Impressionist technique of the 19thcentury. The artist was aware that his Starry Night composition was somewhat surreal and stylized and in a letter to his brother he even referred to "exaggerations in terms of composition. " The vivid style chosen by van Gogh was unusual - he chose lines to portray this night scene when silhouettes would have been a more obvious choice. In Starry Night contoured forms are...
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...When looking at Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 noticing the differences within each painting, in terms of their lines, is relatively easy. In the overall painting, the first difference noticed is the overall flow of the painting and the tone that it is set in. When it comes to The Starry Night you can see instantly that van Gogh idealized nature and its effect of the world. The lines throughout the painting are harsh and rough. The lines especially around the church are extremely strong and dark, but the swirls in the sky set a tone to lighten up the feel of the painting. With the apparent contrast with the strong and dark lines that are around the church and even around the trees, compared to the softness of the swirls in the skin, demonstrate Vincent van Gogh’s lack of control in the world. He appears to be pushing the message that even though life may be difficult at times, we cannot control it no matter how hard we try. The swirls in the sky may represent the fact that things will eventually soften and fall into place. On the other hand, when looking at Sol LeWitt’s painting Wall Drawing No. 681, you see a much different message. All of the lines in his painting are perfectly straight and within their directional group, are all the same distances apart. It seems that because there are different directions going within the painting it shows a slight form of chaos, but the straightness of the lines it shows that someone is trying to...
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...The artwork that I have chosen is titled, "The Starry Night, 1889" by Vincent Van Gogh. This painting is known for being one of Van Gogh's most famous artworks and this painting specifically depicts the window view from his asylum room at Saint-Remy-de-Provence. Van Gogh actually voluntarily checked himself into the Saint-Remy-de-Provence asylum due to the aftermath of him cutting off his left ear in Arles (1888) and confined himself to the institution. I personally think that Van Gogh's battle with his illness and past struggles clearly reflects the artwork's composition and conveys so many emotions and expressions. Above the dark-colored village, you can see a swirling sky filled with contoured clouds, stars, and the moon. The painting also...
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...“Can I paint the world how it feels, and not just how it looks”. Vincent Van Gogh. From a Schoolboy, to a clerk, a teacher, a bookseller, a student and a preacher: Vincent van Gogh struggled to find his bearings, before he immersed himself in art, at the age of 27. In his brief career of 10 years, Vincent sold just 1 painting before his self-inflicted death at 37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Red_Vineyard#/media/File:Red_vineyards.jpg. Now at the Pushkin Museum of Fine arts, Moscow. The Red Vineyard. Sold by Van Gogh for 400 Francs in 1890. The only painting he ever sold. Born to a family with humble means, Vincent’s parents considered his choice to be a painter a ‘social failure’. He was encouraged and supported by his younger...
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...Both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism came about in the late 19th century in France. During this time, the French government controlled the salons and academies of paintings in the early 19th century. It was the controlling by the French government that the Impressionist artists rejected for independent exhibitions. The Anonymous Society of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors, etc.; not only organized, but also participated in the first independent art exhibition that was held in 1874 ("Impressionism and Post-Impressionism," 2007-2015). This group included more than twenty famous artists and included Claude Monet and Auguste Renior. These artists didn't like to be restricted to painting in studios and drawing inspiration from past art, history, or mythology; as artists of the past were, they painted scenes from modern life and/or landscapes. Impressionist artists had a great understanding of nature of light and color theory. They were very literal with their paintings, they didn't vary from the scene in front of them. Take Monet's work, 'Impression, Sunrise' for example; he created this painting exactly as he saw it. He used visible brushstrokes to show exactly how the sunrise looked over the water that morning (Voorhies, October 2004). By 1886, however there were younger artists that felt the Impressionists didn't put the concentration on the subject matter like they should, instead focusing more on their technique and the effects of the natural light ("Post-Impressionism...
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...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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...color and things the camera couldn't capture, like shape or movement. Post-impressionist influenced by the impressionist wanted to take that a step further focusing on color, shape, line, form, and the emotional response of the artist. Vincent van Gogh was one of them. He produced more than 2,000 oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and sketches. Although he is sometimes depicted as a failed artist because of the fact that he only sold one painting while he was alive, after death he became very famous. One of his most famous works and well-known images in modern culture is this painting, The Starry Night. This is also one of his most replicated works of art....
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...AOS – Belonging Essay ‘St. Patricks College’, ‘Migrant Hostel’ and Starry Night – Vincent Van Gough Belonging is an abstract perception that evolves and changes depending on an individual’s context and situation. The tension between belonging to society and self is at the heart of the complexity of the concept. Peter Skrzynecki’s poems St. Patricks College and Migrant Hostel from the immigrant chronicles and Van Gogh’s Starry Night are different mediums that juxtapose the duality of belonging and portray the diverse links individuals have to universal perceptions of connection. Belonging is a complex and multifaceted concept. The need to connect with social frameworks as well as one’s own cultural identity is the reason for the tension and dichotomy of belonging. Migrant Host explores the tension and sense of alienation for both society and self that can result from the migrant experience. A lack of interaction between individuals and places limits an individual’s experience of belonging, this is explored through ‘comings and goings’ and ‘arrivals and departures’ reinforcing the idea of these momentary connections. Through the use of many poetic techniques, the concept of acceptance is shown; a simile “like a homing pigeon” is used to highlight the urgency and desire to gain a sense of connection with the current environment. The simile ‘like a homing pigeon/ circling to get its bearings’ reinforces the idea of a complex sense of separation in the hostel. The disconnection...
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...Formal Analysis of Art The use of lines in an artist piece of work can tell much about their personality. A good example is, Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night which is one of the most personally expressive pieces of art in history (Sayre, 2010). Van Gogh’s lines in The Starry Night appear lose and free in a sense out of control; they are imprecise, and emotionally charged, as if the artist is expressing feelings of anguish (Sayre, 2010). Come to find out the painting, The Starry Night, expresses the authors feelings and energy toward life and death by putting focus on the tip of the church and the swaying of the cypress tree, a tree used to mark graves in Southern France and Italy (Sayre, 2010). More or less when he created this piece of art he was torn between life and death, which led to suicide a little over a year after the piece was finished (Sayre, 2010), so he expressed his confusion and point of view through the out of control lines, while giving the painting a different meaning. The lines that Vincent Van Gogh uses though is like an autograph, one of a kind and could be easily pointed out. Speaking of autographic lines another artist that uses a distinct form of lines that are not only original to the artist, but also expresses their personality through lines used is Sol LeWitt. Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 expresses a different sort of personality. Sol LeWitt’s lines are precise, controlled, logical, and rationally organized (Sayre, 2010). The Wall Drawing...
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