...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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...Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh is a world-renowned artist famous for paintings such as Sunflowers, many of his self portraits, and Starry Night; the painting that will be discussed later. Van Gogh was diagnosed with several mental and physical disorders. The disorders he suffered from include; manic depression, epilepsy, and bipolar disorder. Through these disorders and problems Van Gogh produced some of the most amazing and popular works of art seen through out the world today. Could Van Gogh’s illnesses be the cause for the certain styles and colors he used in his paintings? Or was it his time period that influenced his style of paintings? Vincent Van Gogh’s illnesses, failures, and the post-impressionist era greatly influenced his style and methods of painting. It is proven time and time again that Vincent van Gogh’s many diagnosed illnesses have greatly influenced his paintings. Van Gogh suffered from many diagnosed diseases and problems such as Lead poisoning, Epilepsy, and Manic Depression. These diseases could have greatly altered the way he painted, the colors he used, and the theme of his paintings. He also may have suffered other diseases or mental issues that were never discovered by doctors or by his family. We will never completely know what exactly went on in the mind of Vincent Van Gogh. “Lead poisoning occurs when lead builds up in the body, often over a period of months or years. Even small amounts of lead can cause serious health problems. At very high...
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...Vincent Van Gogh 1853 – 1890 "And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made!'" Vincent van Gogh Letter 338 19 November 1883 Early Years – Vincent Van Gogh makes one of the most tragic lives in the history of painting, which began on March 30, 1853 at Groot-Zundert, in Dutch Brabant, near the Belgian frontier. Vincent’s father, Theodorus, was a pastor and the son of a pastor. His mother, Anna Cornelia Carbentus, was the daughter of a Court bookbinder at The Hague. Their married life was happy and uneventful. Anna and Theodorus had a first child, Vincent-Wilhelm, only to die at the age of six weeks. A year to the very day after, the Anna bore a second son, Vincent Van Gogh. Anna then delivered five more children, Theo, Vincent’s favorite brother, his supporter and guide, Cornelius, Anna, Elisabeth-Huberta and Willemien. Vincent lived in his native village till he was twelve years old. He was very quiet, liable to sudden bursts of impatience or high spirits, which alternated with long periods of depression. Secretive, he did not mix with other children. Vincent was not antisocial; he shared in the family life and showed great affection for his home circle. His childhood was outwardly dull and he was a lonely boy, but stubborn and determined. His time was spent in...
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...Mei Yin Sister Helekunihi HIST 202-01 Final 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...
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...Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 and died July 29, 1890 he was the son of Theodorus Van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Vincent was given the name of his grandfather, and of his stillborn brother. He was a major Post-Impressionist Dutch painter, an artist whose work greatly influenced 20th-century art. His output included portraits, landscapes and still lives of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers. Van Gogh drew as a child but did not paint until his late twenties; he completed many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade he produced more than 2,100 artworks, including 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolor: drawings, sketches and prints. But Van Gogh had a very humble and unexpected start at the age 13 he was a very serious, silent, and thoughtful child. He attended the Zundert village school from 1860 from 1861, he was then sent to Jan Provily's boarding school at Zevenbergen about 20 miles from his family. On 15 September 1866, he went to the new middle school, Willem II College in Tilburg, where Constantijn C. Huysmans, a successful artist from Paris, taught Van Gogh to draw at the school and advocated a systematic approach to the subject. Vincent's interest in art soon began and he started to draw and continued making drawings throughout the years leading to his decision to become an artist. Though well done and expressive, his early drawings...
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...Walking in someone else’s shoes is not easy. Vincent Van Gogh found an old pair of shoes at a flea market in Paris. The shoes were just to paint, but Van Gogh did not just paint them. Van Gogh also walked around in the mud until he felt that they had more character added to them. He then decided to paint them. Many paintings show the artist’s emotion towards that object or scene. Van Gogh helps illustrate his life within this painting, the shoes in the painting are peasant shoes and he was a peasant growing up and could not sell his own artwork until after death. The painting Shoes the shoes worn out, so most wouldn’t even look at them or think about getting the shoes. At the end of the day don’t judge someone by the shoes they are walking...
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...Impressionism brought vibrant colors, confident brushstrokes and endless emotion. All of these qualities were definitely innovative for the artists at the time, however some believed that it was too out of control. Post-impressionism still contained those bright vibrant colors, however artists of this period created pieces that were more planned instead of spontaneous. Perhaps one of the most famous of artists during this period was Vincent van Goph. Born in 1853, van Goph grew up in a strong Christian household and was immensely interested in priesthood. Unfortunately, he did not complete seminary due to mental health issues that would continue to affect him the rest of his life. One of the only things that helped abate his mental illness was art. Van Goph has perhaps some of the most recognizable pieces of art as they are so stylized with bright colors and impasto brush strokes. His subjects were generally landscapes and self-portraits. All of his works were so unconventional and stylized, he was not held highly and only one of his paintings was sold during his lifetime. Van Goph purposefully used unorthodox methods of color and disdained realism, making his pieces definitely impressionistic. Later in life, he had to be in a mental asylum...
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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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...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 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 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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...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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...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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...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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...The portrait I had chosen was Corridor in the Asylum by Vincent Van Gogh in 1889. You will place your horizontal line at the end of the hallway to find the main focus of this picture. By finding your main vanishing points you will then connect the lines to meet and also create your main points. In this picture you will see that it is like an illusion for your eyes to focus on, but once you get your vanishing point you will then continue to link it all together. The patterns that are also in this painting make it more interesting to study and focus. The orthogonals are then located at the bottom of the walls which then is continued to follow the doorway at the end of the hallway of the this picture. When you look at this picture you will find...
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