...I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night, because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it, blended with his own stigmatic emotion, is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France in 1889; Starry Night is aesthetically, artistically, and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the risk of merely defining the obvious, the fact that this is a depiction of an actual village evidences the portrayal of real, naturally occurring forms within his painting – forms that any person who has observed this painting, can attest are definitely a distorted rendition. The distortion of these forms is a demonstration of the type of art that would be later defined as abstract, a descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted. Having said that, one of the first distinct feature representations of abstraction in this painting that I noticed was the peculiar way that Van Gogh painted the stars - Van Gogh’s stars are exaggerated to the point that their size is almost equitant to most conventional depictions of our sun; this is an obvious demonstration of his use of forms of the visual world which he purposefully distorted (perhaps to signify the residence of spirits on each star). The second, most striking...
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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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...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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...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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...Professor Lilly Introduction to Humanities II 14EW2 30 November 2014 Starry Night and The Course of the Empire: Desolation Starry Night was created by Vincent Van Gogh during the Post Impressionism period. Starry Night was painted in oil on canvas in June 1889, and the dimensions are 29 x 36 ¼ inches. This painting is on display at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York. The Course of the Empire: Desolation was created by Thomas Cole during the Romanticism period. Desolation was painted in oil on canvas is 1836, and the dimensions are 62.99 x 39.37 inches. This painting is on display at The New York Historical Society in New York, New York. Fig. 1. Starry Night Fig. 2. The Course of the Empire: Desolation Starry Night is an embodiment of the Post Impressionism period. The rejection of the Impressionists concern with natural lighting and color in favor of an emphasis on abstract qualities or symbols is seen through this piece as Van Gogh uses impasto to create vibrant, glowing stars in the night sky. There is a dynamic energy to this piece seen through the exploding stars in contrast to the quiet, sleeping village. Starry Night was created while Van Gogh was in an Asylum at Saint-Remy, France and was recreated from memory. There is a mixture of imagination and reality throughout the piece. While the night sky is the rendition of a sky Van Gogh saw while living in the South of France, the church spire is not...
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... 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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...ART - 111 - Z90 Professor Isaac Talley Title : Compare and Contrast Final ART Essay Word Count : 1,095 Two phenomenal artists, two totally different styles, and two magnificent paintings. In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the great Pablo Picasso and Vincent van Gogh as well as their beautiful and famous paintings, "Guernica" and "Starry Night". Guernica, was painted by the famous and well-known Spanish Artist, Pablo Picasso. During the Spanish Civil War, the nationalist general Francisco Franco, who would later become the country's ruler, allowed German and Italian planes to test their bombing tactics on Guernica and learn about the psychological effects of air warfare. More than 1,000 civilians were killed in three hours of the bombing. News of the attack quickly spread to Paris, where Picasso read stories and saw photographs of the devastation" (Dewitte, Larmann, and Shields, 545)3. So the back story and reason to why this piece of art was painted was a reaction to the aerial bombing in Guernica, Spain by Italian and German troops during the Spanish Civil War in 1937, Picasso was asked to paint a recreation about the bombing on a greatly sized mural to show off at the 1937 World's Fair in Paris, France. This painting shows the hardships that come along with war as well as the devastating destruction that it causes a lot of innocent people. Guernica is a large oil painting (25.6 feet wide) that is white, black, and grey...giving it a dark vibe of destruction...
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...cross my mind when I think Van Gogh are of his personality; the insanity, instability, and his pure obsession with the art he created, but the first time I saw Starry Night, I was overcome with an immense feeling of calmness and serenity that completely took me by surprise. Van Gogh’s Starry Night was one of the many works painted during his time in the Saint-Remy Asylum in 1889 and is now one of the most recognizable and desirable works of art in the world. Starry Night now resides in The Museum of Modern Art it New York, New York where it is admired and appreciated by thousands of people daily. I honestly don’t know the true definition of my feelings towards the painting. I only know that it stands out to me more so than any of his other works. When I see Starry Night, I see the dark sky that Van Gogh saw; and not only the darkness, but the exact opposite as well. I see the extreme brightness and color that he emphasizes throughout the night sky. He portrays the colors of the night with such brilliance and I am irrevocably drawn to that. Van Gogh gives the wind, literal and unmistakable movement that is impossible to interpret in any other way. The stars are oversized and shine brighter than our current reality, but I would assume it was to emphasize their brightness, and it’s a possibility that Van Gogh had a much better view of the stars than we do now and lived without our mass amounts of modern light pollution. The color blue in Starry Night is what I, and what I would...
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...are Impressionate works of art by Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh, and Edward March. This paper will include the description of the works including the styles, a summary of the artists’ personal philosophies of art as well as trends and schools of thought in the art world at the time and in the place the artist was working. Summary Description of the works /style The painting called the “Vision after the Sermon” which is a symbolist of art. Pauls’ used the dropping of a brushstroke called “cezannist” that included matte fields of persuasively movement and non-naturalistic colors. Those colors express the supreme visions of “Breton” as the farmer women’s. . (Kang, 2011) This work is also considered as Gauguin’s definite departure of naturalism that controls impressionism. His colors are without gradients, and it’s contrary to the traditions of the Renaissance. In this works he also ignored the rules of perspective. Because he made the figures on the foreground too large in relation to Jacob and the Angel. He also blocks the view of the wrestlers which according to the tradition should have been the central element of the whole composition. This painting was rejected by the church of Pont-Aven. (Kang, 2011) The painting called the “The Starry Night,” was painted by Vincent Van Gogh. This painting was a night sky filled with swirling cloud, the stars ablaze with their own luminescence and bright crescent moon. (Van Gogh, 2011)The features within this painting everyone can relate...
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...Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh The Starry Night painting that was made by Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most well known images in modern culture as well as being one of the most replicated and sought after prints. This painting is related to Humanities because as we all know, the word “humanities” contains the word “human”. Thus, we could define humanities as the study of how humans have expressed themselves through the arts throughout history. Expressing oneself through the arts is one of the earliest and most basic human activities. It is one very important way that humans reveal their values, insights, and priorities. In addition, humanities encompass the stories, the ideas, and the words that help us make sense of our lives and our world. It introduced ideas that may have never crossed our minds. Just like this painting, there are actually several main aspects that will intrigue those who view this image, and each factor affects each individual differently. Although the features are exaggerated, this is a scene we can all relate to, and also one that most individuals feel comfortable and at ease with. This sky keeps the viewer's eyes moving about the painting, following the curves and creating a visual dot to dot with the stars. This movement keeps the onlooker involved in the painting while the other factors take hold. Moreover, below the rolling hills of the horizon lies a small town. There is a peaceful essence flowing from the structures. Perhaps the cool dark colors...
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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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...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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...all shapes and sizes. All this while challenging our intellect The type of style van Gogh would like to work was as a post-impressionist painter and the reason towards this style of work was due to wanting to create art works which held noble beauty, emotional honestly and bold colour all in one. Van Gogh learned his skills and developed his ideas in his early years by looking and copying paintings which he was most interested in and reading 19th century drawing booklets. In addition he felt to be an amazing painter an artist most first master the art of pencil drawing therefore he felt it was very important to master black and white before even thinking about adding and using colour and in such when he was happy with his drawing then he would add colour. Drawing in a whole allowed van Gogh to take in light and pictures much faster than painting and this lead to van Gogh firstly drawing out his paintings instead of actually just painting them right away. One of van Gogh’s famous art works was “The starry night” and it was produced 1869. In this art work I can see a small hidden town hidden behind a large mountain in a distorted form of looking like a castle and a breathe taking view of a starry night as almost if the cosmos are in reach of my fingertips. The composition of the painting has a form of repletion in a high and low rhythmic kind of way with the patterns in the starry night sky resulting in creating an effect of a realistic and abstract painting at the same...
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...1. Describe the earlier period. Your description should include the characteristics of the style, and social conditions that may have contributed to the advent of this style. Impressionism: An organized exhibit by a group of artists that called themselves the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors and Printmakers launched the movement known as Impressionism in Paris in the late 19th century approx. 1874-1882 (Samu, 2004). These artists (including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt) ignited a worldwide following; revolutionizing Western conceptions of art and painting. Thought to be a group by the general public and other artists, these painters were very much independent with diverse and varying artistic approaches, although they were unified in their disagreement and rejection of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) (Samu, 2004). They were often criticized for their style of work which had a sketch like appearance and unfinished feel to them; although more progressive critics gave praise for their representation of modern life. The ‘subjects’ of their art were oft times commonplace using such settings as recreation and leisure, including landscapes as well. Quick and unstructured brushstrokes were used to portray fluctuation of light. They pursued typical moments in life instead of dramatic scenes, paying special attention to the effects of light and movement using bold color and space as captured by...
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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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