Throughout our lives, we encounter many people, groups and ideas who leave a sort of impression on us, both positive and negative. Similarly, in art history there have been multiple preceding artist movements like the impressionists, who have impacted artists that were a part of other subsequent movements, like the fauvists or expressionists. The similarities between Maurice de Vlaminck's "Chatou Bridge" (1907) and Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night" (1889) reflect some impressionism qualities that have positively influenced Vlaminck when composing this fauvist painting. Vlaminck reinforces this notion when he declares "I love van Gogh more than my own father", after visiting one of van Gogh's exhibitions in 1901. Maurice de Vlaminck was
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It is currently located in the "Neue Nationalgalerie" in Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany). It is a ground level perspective painting of the Chatou bridge on a late summer morning, portraying a consistent rhythm through the visible paintbrush strokes of color, that convey a strong sense of motion. Maurice paints a white and pomegranate red sailboat peacefully sailing in the aqua blue Seine, deep green-yellow trees blowing in the wind, and a Parisian fishing next a bunch of brown cattails. It appears as though Vlaminck uses only one size/ thickness of paintbrush throughout the painting, as the strokes remain so consistent. His technique causes the images to look more flatter and layered. Similar to that of an image that you would see in a scene from a film, where it would be out of focus, and as the narration would begin, the photo would begin to focus. It captures the calmness and relaxed aura one would feel when sitting by the …show more content…
It is currently located in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in New York City (U.S.A). It is a "bird's eye view" or "from a tower" perspective, as Van Gogh watches the early morning sunrise from his designated art room in the 'Saint-Paul de Mauscole' Asylum, which he signed himself into after experiencing a psychotic episode and mutilating his own ear. Oddly enough, the iron bars in his window are not included in the painting. "Through the iron-barred window, I can see an enclosed square of wheat [...] he wrote to his brother Theo in May 23rd, 1889" (Wikipedia 1). Perhaps Van Gogh did not see himself as locked up, rather in a space to gather his thoughts and calm his mind through constant drawing and
It is currently located in the "Neue Nationalgalerie" in Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin (Germany). It is a ground level perspective painting of the Chatou bridge on a late summer morning, portraying a consistent rhythm through the visible paintbrush strokes of color, that convey a strong sense of motion. Maurice paints a white and pomegranate red sailboat peacefully sailing in the aqua blue Seine, deep green-yellow trees blowing in the wind, and a Parisian fishing next a bunch of brown cattails. It appears as though Vlaminck uses only one size/ thickness of paintbrush throughout the painting, as the strokes remain so consistent. His technique causes the images to look more flatter and layered. Similar to that of an image that you would see in a scene from a film, where it would be out of focus, and as the narration would begin, the photo would begin to focus. It captures the calmness and relaxed aura one would feel when sitting by the …show more content…
It is currently located in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in New York City (U.S.A). It is a "bird's eye view" or "from a tower" perspective, as Van Gogh watches the early morning sunrise from his designated art room in the 'Saint-Paul de Mauscole' Asylum, which he signed himself into after experiencing a psychotic episode and mutilating his own ear. Oddly enough, the iron bars in his window are not included in the painting. "Through the iron-barred window, I can see an enclosed square of wheat [...] he wrote to his brother Theo in May 23rd, 1889" (Wikipedia 1). Perhaps Van Gogh did not see himself as locked up, rather in a space to gather his thoughts and calm his mind through constant drawing and