Norman Vincent Peale

• Reflect on project. For the dollar project, we decided to host a clothing drive to benefit the WRAP program. WRAP stands for Wo/men’s Resource and Assistance program. WRAP’s mission is to embrace adult and child survivors of domestic and sexual violence and to empower them to rise above their abuse and move forward with their lives. The planning to the project was difficult in the beginning. When the social work 400 class was brainstorming about what would be the best activity to help, there…

Vanitas paintings are symbolic, strongly linked to the bible and coincides to the meaningless of life. The paintings, human life by Harmen Steenwyk and Audrey Flack may seem different from each other but both both portray the same message in through two very different ensembles of objects. 'Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life' by Harmen Steenwyck is a typical example of a Dutch 'Vanitas' painting. Harmen steenwyck mostly painted fruits so this painting is a lot different to…

‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” This quote is from famous Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands to Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. He was named for his grandfather Vincent, who was also named for his uncle, a successful sculptor, also named Vincent Van Gogh. Unfortunately, van Gogh like many artists did not become famous for his artwork until after he died. Van…

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…

Expressionist Vincent Van Gogh created this painting in 1889, using oil on canvas. The Starry Night is considered to be one of the most famous works of art of all time and is the perfect idealization of Post-Impressionist Art. Post-Impressionism is the reaction of impressionists against the naturalism to discover line, form, color, and emotion. Van Gogh turned to art as an outlet for expressing his mental turmoil and depressed emotions, ideally represented in The Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh…

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…

Vincent Van Gough was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland on March 30, 1853. His father, Theodorus Van Goh was a Protestant minister, so he grew up in a religious atmosphere. A year before Vincent was born, his mother, Cornelia, gave birth to a son, named Vincent, who was stillborn. Throughout his childhood, he was haunted by the baby’s grave with his own name on it. He was the oldest of his siblings which consisted of one younger brother and three younger sisters. His mother encouraged him to draw…

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…

Vincent Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter who developed his works of art as a Post-Impressionist painter. He was a well known for his Western Art work; within a decade Van Gogh created around 2000 paintings that included landscapes, self-portraits, and still lives. When painting his famous artwork he used bold colors that were prominent in all of his artwork. Theses colors were always symbolic and dramatic. Van Gogh was a very closed man, meaning he loved to paint but he had no…

Colour became symbolic in expressing internal turmoil. Selfies can also be a form of control over Self-image, letting us choose how we’re perceived. The Dutch painters, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) painted over 40 self-portraits and Vincent Van Gogh, (1853–1890) painted over 30 self-portraits. An interesting aspect of Rembrandt’s self-portraits, writers talk about the quality and techniques, but never, about why there 's so many and the reason behind them. Nobody writes about, how…