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    1. Explain why The Starry Night is such a famous painting. If you think it should not be so popular, explain why. (1-2 ¶s) The Starry Night, by Vincent van Gogh, is a famous painting because he is using abstract art which makes it look different from other paintings. The painting is interesting because there’s a tree or giant bush object to the left of the picture, a town with rolling hills and the night sky. The night sky is very bright with the yellow crescent moon, the bright stars and the…

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    grade version of Vincent van Gogh’s painting, The Starry Night, is in my mom’s bathroom. When I painted it as a eight-year-old I enjoyed the piece of art for its simplistic bright colors and the mere fact that because van Gogh used paint to create it, I also got to use paint. Now my feelings are mixed and they’ve changed. I’ve experienced more life and more feeling since I was eight-years-old and because of that, the way I look at The Starry Night is different. I believe that people see this…

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    "A Starry Night" shows a lot of emotions and great piece of work by Vincent Van Gogh. With brush strokes of thick paint, called impasto according to the textbook, van Gogh invented rhythms that convey his intense feelings. In 1889, during the Post-impression movement van Gogh created one of the most famous pieces of artwork with his oil on canvas “The Starry Night”. The piece captures the best use of line, shape, mass, space, motion, texture and color. Van Gogh had a talent like no other, which…

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    Kingsborough Community College Art 3100 Descriptive Paper November 12th 2015 Vincent Van Gough is known for his very famous oil on canvas still life landscape painting “The Starry Night”, created in 1889, which can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art. Vincent Van Gough was an expressionist painter, and “The Starry Night” is definitely an example of the expressionist time period, which was known for exaggerating aspects of the form in a painting to attract emotions rather than reasons. Vincant…

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    The Starry Night painting by Vincent Van Gogh was painted in 1889. It was an oil canvas of the night sky. Van Gogh was a fanatic for night time and showed that in this painting. In Starry Night, the light is shining bright with energy and life, with a very quiet village below. Van Gogh put the cypress tree in his painting to connect the earth and sky, some say that he used the tree to reflect his own thoughts about death. Van Gogh depicted a lot of darkness in this oil painting, but made it seem…

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    works, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, and sketches. A few of his well known artworks include: 'The Starry Night' 'Sunflower' 'Self Portraits'. Vincent Van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night' in the asylum where he was staying in Saint-Remy, France, in 1889. The oils painting depicts an expressive swirling night sky and a sleeping village, with a large flame-lie cypress, thought to represent the bridge between life and death, looming in the foreground.…

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    Adorned today on everything from t-shirts to coffee mugs, “Starry Night” serves as one of (if not the) most famous of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings. Painted in 1889, under “a terrible need of religion” (Sund 673), the piece could very well be Van Gogh’s contemplation of death. Confirmed to have been completed sometime between June 16-18 (Whitney 356), the artist’s mental state could also have contributed to the creativity of the piece. The nature of this painting is slightly unusual for Van…

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    my research paper about is my all-time favorite football movie which is called Friday Night Lights and it is the true story of the Permian Panthers high school football team. The state of Texas is known for its size and even has its own sayings such as “Everything is bigger in Texas” and “Don’t mess with Texas. Well football is very well known in Texas and people really care about the sport. Every Friday night the small town of Odessa, Texas would be empty simply because everyone was at Ratliff…

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    Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. In chapter 1 of the novel “the curious incident of the dog in the night – time” written by Mark Haddon, right through the book Haddon explores how individuals are challenged by issues of trust and truth in the world. Haddon also explores the different personal challenges faced by people in the society for example Haddon explores a type of syndrome through the character of Christopher. The syndrome that he explores is called Asperger’s syndrome. Haddon…

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    Introduction This week digital field trip was a review of the artist Vincent Van Gogh. The painting of choice that was inspiring by Van Gogh is called The Starry Night painted in 1889. Content Vincent van Gogh painted Starry Night in 1889 during his stay at the asylum and used vivid colors for expression. Vincent painted this oil painting in France where it’s “plagued in the winter months by the mistral, strong winds that blow day after day out of the Alps down the Rhone River valley. The…

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