Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night

Improved Essays
Vincent van Gogh painted over 900 paintings in his life time. My personal favorite is Starry Night. Van Gogh painted this piece after his ear incident in an asylum in Saint-Remy-de-Provence, France. Influenced by his mental state of mind, Vincent created this beautiful painting portraying his vision of the night sky. When I look at the painting, I see the gloom of Van Gogh’s mind and his perception of the after life. In my opinion, Starry Night shows the audience his emotions. He used different aspects of brush stroke and color to show people the world through his point of view. Several of his best pieces of artwork were created while he was having episodes. I feel that his expression of his psyche is extraordinary. Stepping away from the

Related Documents

  • Superior Essays

    Vincent van Gogh was an amazing post-impressionist painter who was poor and went practically unrecognized his whole life. Now, he is most known for the emotion, beauty, and color that he put into his work that extremely influenced 20th century art. While many know that Van Gogh was a tad bit on the crazy side, not many people have taken the time to understand why he was like this. Like almost everyone, his childhood had a major role in how he developed as a person. Then, in his late teens and throughout his 20s he was constantly moving from place to place trying to decide who he was in life.…

    • 1432 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Night Cafe Who was Vincent Van Gogh? And why the night cafe is one of his masterpiece and most famous painting? In the Modernist world there were so many fabulous and famous paintings but in this essay I want to focus in Vincent Gogh. Vincent Gogh was born on March 30 of 1853 in Netherland.…

    • 716 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I took Art Appreciation back in high school, my art teacher, Jane Huebner, also known as “Heebs had told us a quote that I can still remember to this day; I need da money to buy da gas to make the Van Gogh. From there on out I started to like this artist that had stood out to me. This artist was Vincent Willem Van Gogh. He is known as a post-impressionist artist still to this day (2). He had a not so great life and had only sold one painting (4).…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Vincent van Gogh (Vincent Willem van Gogh) known for many of his famous artworks, was a Dutch post-impressionist painter. Vincent van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, Netherlands. He was born exactly 1 year after his brother’s (Vincent), who was stillborn. With his name and birthdate carved onto his brother’s grave, van Gogh was already feeling sadness at a very young age. Growing up with a pastor, van Gogh thought he was bound to become gospel.…

    • 323 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gerardo Martinez Visual Arts Extended Essay How did Vincent Van Gogh’s art style evolve through the years 1886-1890? Vincent Van Gogh is known for both his paintings and for his troubling life. Many of his paintings can be seen in museums all across the world and he has several famous paintings such as ‘’ The Starry Night’’, ‘’Café Terrace at Night’ ‘Irises’ ‘as well as several others. His work continues to inspire many artists including my self.…

    • 498 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853. He was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. “He was named after his grandfather and stillborn brother who died a year earlier than Van Gogh’s birth” (Riter). He was the oldest child of Theodorus van Gogh, which was a pastor in the Dutch Reformed Community, and his mother was Anna Cornelia Carbentus.…

    • 1145 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Van Gogh has suffered through many things but still believed in himself that he would make it through and sell his paintings that he thought inspired the world around him. These two characteristics, abundant and enthusiasm helped him begin on how to be an artist. Also he switched from place to place and carried his work and confidence in his mind. His mental health and body damage helped him reveal some masterpieces that he thought weren’t that good and . Van Gogh went through so many things that were rough, cruel and difficult but never stopped believing in himself.…

    • 617 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature,” Eric Hoffer. Yes this may be random, but so is life. You can still learn from random things in life. These topics are just that random but you can always learn something. "Dessert began from the French word desservir, signifying "to clear the table."…

    • 451 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    As a post-impressionist painter, Vincent Van Gogh's work of art is notable for its beauty, color, emotion, and has influenced many 20th century artists. "I want to paint what I feel, and feel what I paint" from Van Gogh himself, is a feeling that any artist may experience through the expression of his or her own art. His legacy has endured through the course of time and represents what difficulties life can present to one pursuing the love of art. Art is powerful, emotional, imaginative, dramatic, and can be so intense that it boggles the mind. However, Van Gogh for all his struggles was able to portray the spiritual essence of man and nature to canvas with the flick of the hand and a…

    • 125 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Vincent Van Gogh

    • 1160 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Vincent Van Gogh Context Vincent Van Gogh on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert. Van Gogh was born exactly one year after his parents' first son, also named Vincent, was stillborn. At the age of 15, Vincent van Gogh's family was struggling with money, and he was forced to leave school and go to work with his Uncle At his art dealership. In June of 1873, van Gogh was transferred to the Groupil Gallery in London. There, he fell in love with the English culture.…

    • 1160 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Being able to experience the artwork The Bedroom by Vincent van Gogh was truly incredible. A person should take the opportunity to be able to experience a visit to an art museum because it is incredible to see so many different types of artwork. A person simply can not get everything out of a piece of artwork by simply look at their phone. There are many important visual and design elements that are incorporated to this piece of artwork. Each of them have a specific role on what they achieve to the viewer.…

    • 1450 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to.…

    • 1010 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Description There are various shades of blue and black, splashes of yellows, a textured cypress tree, yellow stars, a crescent moon glazed in its own yellow light, a blue mountain range, fields of blue, a town, buildings was a dash of orange in the windows, a church with a large steeple, vertical and horizontal lines, black lines in the tree, small trees in the town with curly tops, reflections of the yellow moonlight on the tops of the buildings and the small trees. Analysis There are five striking elements and principles of design throughout Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh. The first is the use of composition, the second is the use of color, the third is use of line, the forth is the use of movement, and the fifth is the rhythm of the painting. Also, there is a good use of overlapping and detail throughout the painting.…

    • 1029 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When Vincent Van Gogh created this painting he had to have thought out the design greatly because it is bursting with plenty of elements and principles of design. The design aspects of this painting are great and lead you all over the place to give you a story and understanding of the painting. Starry Night has many design elements and principles. Van Gogh used the primary triad in this painting. Blue is heavily used throughout the whole piece.…

    • 993 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Almond Blossoms Art Analysis

    • 2466 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Is mental illness a common theme in successful artists? Many artists in the twentieth century suffered from mental illness, but went undiagnosed because there was not as extensive research there is nowadays. Some artists that have been suspected of having a mental illness are Marina Abramovic, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, and Vincent Van Gogh. Those suffering from mental illness think very differently than those without. This could be the reasoning for why these artists have created works that are so unique from others at the time and have been deemed as masterpieces.…

    • 2466 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Improved Essays