“The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge.” To what extent do you agree? On a hot Saturday afternoon, I was walking around downtown in desperate search of a place to buy a birthday card when I came across a small, shabby looking ice cream shop. You could hardly see it from the street, but the inside was nearly packed with people. Curious and exhausted, I decided to enter in order to escape the heat of the sun. When I tasted the homemade ice cream, I immediately understood
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myself, and the painting appears as in a dream” - Vincent van Gogh It is wide-spread knowledge that all ingenious people are a little strange, that their minds work in ways completely different to ours, that their perspective of reality is unlike that of common people. Take Picasso for instance: his vision of reality was utterly different than what you or I see. What about Salvador Dali and his eccentric work? No need to go that far, Vincent Van Gogh himself was a peculiar person. Those are people
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of foot wear and if not you must definitely own at least three different shoes. Some artist found that this common piece of clothing that we take for granted is a master piece on its own. From Vincent Van Gogh to Andy Warhol, they all painted shoes in different forms and environments. Take for example Van Gogh “A pair of shoes”, they seemed kind of depressing, yet heavily use, the viewer can create the character that used these boots by simply looking at this picture. A worker perhaps or even the artist
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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
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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
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Van Gogh Vincent van Gogh’s stay in Arles greatly influenced him, his emotions, and the way he viewed the world and we can see that through the way his artwork changed when he moved there. The color in his work grew more vibrant, and he started really developing the classic style that he is famous for. It is clear that the vibrant sunlight inspired van Gogh in his dominant use of yellows in his works done here. I feel that van Gogh felt feelings of excitement, happiness, and vibrancy of life to
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Not So Small Things Have you ever dreamed of riding a Lamborghini or own a great home with a great family? We don’t see very many folks in our society that is able to achieve those goals. Plato once said, “A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.” So the question is, why should we even try? In all honesty, it’s because we want to be that one out of a hundred thousand men, the accomplished
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Cubism Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso between 1907 and 1914with some credit given to Brague. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes.". The stylization and distortion of Picasso's ground-breaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Museum of Modern Art, New York), painted in 1907, came from African art which Picasso had first seen when he visited the ethnographic museum in the Palais
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‘Art’ is derived from a Latin word ‘ars’ which means skill. Art is the human skill of expression using different art methods such as paintings, sculpture, drawing, music, etc. Art originates in the history of all cultures throughout the world in one way or the other. From the era of Mesopotamian to to-date people have produced art, although the styles and the methods in producing art has changed, influenced and modified overtime. Some of the changes in techniques and styles used centuries ago had
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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
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