Philbrook Museum of Art

A fine example of beautiful art is, Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night Over the Rhone was created in 1888. Other than this particular piece Van Gogh created large assortment of night paintings because “…before he became an artist, Vincent van Gogh was fascinated by the cycles of nature and human life and the times of day.” (Van Gogh and The Colors of the Night. 9) He was looking to capture the emotions and feelings of the times. Gogh’s work appeals to us not only for it being pleasing to…

Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck are both famous paintings that were painted during the Post-Impressionism era and the Early Renaissance era. Each piece is unique and display different artistic composition. Starry Night portrays a glowing night sky over a village and The Arnolfini Portrait portrays a wealthy couple holding hands in a bedroom. The differences in time period and the artists’ experiences influenced the aesthetics of both artworks. Vincent…

Van Gogh has had on art history and our culture, it is important first to examine the artistic and cultural environment in which Van Gogh was acquainted. Van Gogh’s religion was central in shaping both the images he painted and the artistic techniques he used. This paper will examine the influences of his philosophy of faith and how it progressed in his work by subject matter and style. Van Gogh’s paintings of humble peasant in Nuenen Netherlands dramatically influenced his art from subject…

One of my favorite paintings from the Revolution of the palette: The First Synthetic and their Impact on French Artists exhibition was the Happy Lovers, c. 1760-65, oil on canvas by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. The painting size was 35-1/2 x 47-3/4 in. (90.2 x 121.3 cm). The painting depicts a happy couple, sitting in a nature, smiling, looking at each other with love, and enjoying their time together. On the background behind the couple the branches of leaves bended over and created a round shape…

Museum/Gallery Paper I went and visited the Wichita Art Museum for this assignment. Going into this assignment I was apprehensive as it had been well over a decade since the last time I have ever been to a museum. From what i did recall I remember finding myself seeing pieces of art and not understanding how that is even considered art. I was, however, looking forward to seeing how my perspective had changed since becoming an adult and after reading the first several chapters of course now…

The Stolen Kiss – Hermitage Museum The Stolen Kiss by Jean Honore Fragonard from the State Hermitage Museum is an oil on canvas painting Museum Introduction The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia is the largest museum of arts and culture in the world and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collection consists of six buildings, five of which are open to the public, that include over three million items, with only a small portion remaining on permanent display. Among the…

By wondering among rooms each with a specific style of art, I found the room showing Cubism, introducing Pablo Picasso and Georeges Braque especially fascinating. After leaving the museum, I realized that I spent most of the time watching at the paintings related to Cubism, because the ideas from the paintings were obscure in forms of patterns, I needed to stop and watch for a while in front of the paintings to understand them. The paintings performed just as the introduction suggested: cubist…

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…

Vincent and Theo were living together, there was no need for them to write letters to each other. With no letters to look back on we have no way to know much about Vincent’s time in Paris. We do know that during his stay he collected more japanese art work with the bright vibrant coloring. In his two year stay, he painted over 200 pieces. Once van Gogh thought he had captured Paris as best he could, He moved. “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought…

Sir Anthony van Dyck, a young Flemish master in art of his age after working under Peter Paul Rubens and well known for his paintings working under said artists and on his own. With his prodigious skills and high demand, he was well known as a portraitist ¬and church painter in parts of Europe. Having traveled to difference countries for individual works, van Dyck developed a more mature style within portraits which was noted to be his strongest point as per suggestions by his mentor, Rubens…