The Potato Eaters

Juan Linares Mr. Maust 2 February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen now to the peak of acclaim; a masterwork, known through the world for its mesmerising twirls upon the whirling sky, as well as the glinting eddies of stars above blue rolling hills, both which bind any eyes who look upon the painting with all its many details; however, as most people who have seen the painting, only the apparent is clear. van Gogh’s piece has behind it many aspects that elevate its status from a masterwork of art, to a clear representation of human essence; not only in form and style, but in history, symbolism, and mathematical interpretation, The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh stands as imposing as the booming Moon that rests atop the sleepy village environed in a serene and calm blue gloom. One of the hardest forms of physics to understand is the concept of turbulent flow in fluid dynamics; one that was equated by the Russian Mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov, and is presented clearly all through The Starry Night. Common of impressionist artists, an attempt to…

reviews, but was still unable to sell any pieces. Vincent lived in Paris wit Theo in his apartment for two years. Vincent always had ambition to draw and paint figures, in 1884 he began working on mastering weathered hands, heads and other anatomical features of peasants. He was planning on creating a multiple figure piece that would make his name respected in the artistic community. The piece he created was entitled The Potato Eaters and was completed in 1885. This piece proved to be success,…

When most people first hear the name Van Gogh, they think of the Van Gogh portrayed by popular culture – brilliant, tormented, and driven to insanity by his artistic dedication. Yet this portrayal of Van Gogh fails to acknowledge his role as a social critic – a critic considerably influenced by his socioeconomic circumstances. Even modern-day art historians, those people deemed most likely to consider Van Gogh from every possible viewpoint, often reject this facet of the artist. They instead…

Potato Eater was one of Vincent van Gogh early canvas and is considered to be his first masterpiece. Painted while living among the peasants and laborers in Nuenen in the Netherlands, Van Gogh wanted to depict the people and their lives truthfully (Vincent van Gogh-The Art Story). As he discovered impressionism, Van Gogh saw himself as a painter of peasant life. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo saying,” By continually observing peasant life, at all hours of the day… I have become so involved…

Vincent van Gogh Abdulla Al-Ubaidy Block: C An artist by the name of Vincent van Gogh has produced more than 2,100 art works. He was a very talented artist that is known in this day and age. One of his first pieces was “The Potato Eaters”. Many more of his art included oil paintings, water colors, drawings, sketches and prints. He helped develop art in a completely new way at such a young age, which has helped his art become prominent. At the age 27 Van Gogh infiltrated…

at twenty-five to twelve. Added up they make thirty-seven, the age of his suicide and death” (Nagera 33). Gogh made use of what little money he had which left him with cheap materials, however, he still brought realism into the painting. His financial situation left him often painting things that art dealers in Paris at the time would find his work as unappealing. “He was a painter of peasants, not for the sake of their picturesqueness-although he was moved by their whole aspect-but from a deep…

1a. The results from Figure 1 illustrate that the control treatment of the Tomato plant, has a maximum quantum yield of Photosystem II than chilled plants. It appears that over time, the average Fv/Fm seems to be constant with no drastic changes in the levels, with values staying between the ranges of 0.7 to 0.8 Fv/Fm. On the other hand, the chilled treatment of Tomato plants begins at 0.2257 Fv/Fm at time = 0 minutes, and the last plant has a Fv/Fm value of 0.6526 when time is at 150 minutes.…

While the Great famine could not have happened without the failure of the potato crop – something beyond the control of the British Government- their subsequent response, or there lack of, to the crisis greatly contributed to the devastation caused by the blight. As evidenced by Tony Blair’s 1997 apology to the Irish people, the British Government’s policies during the Great Famine toward a country it was, on paper at least, in union with, were unforgivable. Although the Conservative government…

There were many observable factors when investigating osmosis in potatoes. Four different solutions were created (distilled water, 1% salt (NaCl), 3% salt and 5% salt. The potatoes were sliced until they were 3cm long, each test tube contained 3 strips of potato cores and a different concentration. The potato strips were weighed and the results recorded. The potato cores were left in each solution for 24 hours. Once the test results were collected the data was averaged and placed into a graph…

The great famine or the great hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. [1] Mainly the Irish were farmers and their major dependent was on farming but what changed the situation is the number of historical reasons. During the famine, approximately 1 million people died and a lot of them emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. [2] The famine was caused by a potato disease commonly known as…