...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...scene where Jesus tells his disciples one of them will betray him. It was commissioned in 1495 as part of a renovation to the Catholic Church. I think that Da Vinci may have chosen this type of symmetry because it keeps our eye to the center of the painting, Jesus, whom is the center of the Catholic Religion. Found on page 416, Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night is a good example of an asymmetrical painting. It’s asymmetrical because if you draw a line through the middle of it, the two sides are not the same. However the painting is still balanced. Starry Night keeps your eye moving all about the painting. You first see the dark, tall object on the left rising up to the sky. The sky seems to have motion, with circular lines that move you to the right of the painting towards the moon. The moon shines down on the village below. Van Gogh painted this while in an asylum in 1889. Starry Night can be interpreted as Van Gogh’s dream of the world outside the asylum he no longer has contact with. Even though he committed himself to the asylum for help with bouts of mental illness, the dark object in the foreground is often said symbolize the feeling of isolation Van Gogh feels while being sequestered in the asylum. The upper portion of Notre Dame’s North Rose Window, found on page 254 in our book, is an example of radial balance or symmetry. Although the Rose Window, as the term would suggest is round, radial symmetry does not have to be. There just...
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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 move to a place where he enjoyed, especially being the smoker and drinker he was. The scope of his work also grew, as he began to paint many things such as grander landscapes of the area. Van Gogh is an artist greatly influenced by the impressionist style, and his own work later became known as post impressionism. He would let his intense emotions take over his paintings and used color to convey emotion rather than to document reality. It is clear that his work celebrated life and universal harmony as a whole. In his most famous painting of all, Starry Night, the shapes and colors he used created an elemental harmony. It is clear he painted a world in which he dreamed existed, a utopia of sorts, filled with peace and tranquility. Today, van Gogh’s work has become one of the most recognizable in all of history. It is extremely popular and I think part of the reason is the beauty of what he created and, specifically with Starry Night, because he did it with a dream like perspective...
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...o View Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night on p. 61 and Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 on p. 64 in Ch. 4 of A World of Art and describe both paintings in terms of their lines. What does each artist’s use of line communicate about the artist’s personality and view of the world? Van Gogh evidently found nature to be as compelling and formidable as God himself. “The Starry Night” emphasizes this. According to Sayre, Van Gogh was mentally tormented and this is evident by the use of the artist’s technique in his painting. The lines are harsh and jagged. Those of the church spire, the trees in the forefront, and the eaves of the houses are strong and dark. The swirls in the night sky are as strong, possibly indicative of his views of God’s and nature’s power. Perhaps Van Gogh’s view of the world was simple: he knew that the world was greater than him and therefore uncontrollable. The lines in “The Starry Night” truly demonstrate his lack of control. Still, despite the heaviness of the lines and the swirls, there is a calming effect evident in the painting with Van Gogh’s inclusion of church and solitude and serenity of the small village. In contrast, Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing No. 681 demonstrates the work of an artist who seemingly found that the world was easily controlled. His lines are perfectly formed. The diagonal, horizontal and vertical lines perhaps indicate some disorder in the world, but disorder that can still be explained, if not contained. o View Las Meninas...
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