Stark Museum of Art

Response Essay Art is something all around the world. Not all artists are the same, they all have something unique about them. In art class, we watched a video about Vincent van Gogh who was a painter and drawer. The video showed his artwork and had the song “Vincent” by Don McLean playing in the background. We watched this video so we could learn about Van Gogh and to learn how to appreciate art. While watching, and listening to the video, it me feel at peace and gave me a feeling of joy…

Alanna Croysdale Mrs. Werner IB Lang and Lit SL I 15 September 2017 AZEK deck ad This print ad views a deck in the shape of a painter’s pallet from the top. It has colorful flowers placed around the edges of the deck and two people cooking a healthy, delicious looking meal in the center. It’s set on a field of perfect dark green grass and the lighting is focused on the deck. A short message, in white and gold, below the deck states “Create an enduring masterpiece”. At the bottom of the ad in a…

struggling financially. He worked at his Uncle’s art dealership. By this time, van Gogh was fluent in French, German, English, and his native Dutch. In 1873, van Gogh worked at the Groupil Gallery in London. He fell in love with Eugenie Loyer. Van Gogh suffered a breakdown when she rejected his marriage proposal. He devoted his life to God and threw away all of his books except for the Bible. He became angry and told customers not to buy the "worthless art". He was eventually fired. In the…

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…

Gogh was a very poor man living in Paris trying to develop himself as an artist, when he first began to paint he used peasants as models. After this stage of his art, he began to experiment with his use of color in painting landscapes and flowers because he could not afford to pay models. The fragileness of Van Gogh's life was told by his stark contrasts of color on canvas and his restless strokes with his brush. “I was thin and pale as a ghost,”(BBC) Van Gogh said when he described one of his…

Tampa Museum of Art which built in 1979 and debuted an award-winning new building in 2010. It is located in downtown Tampa, Florida. It exhibits modern and contemporary art, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities. I never been to an art museum before because I’m not a big fan of art and I don’t have interest in art. I think I lack interest in art because it’s hard for me to understand the meaning or the story behind the piece of art. I decided to visit Tampa Museum of art because this museum…

Van Gogh used all of the elements of art in “Starry Night”, but some call more attention to themselves than others. Line, for example is a prominent feature in this piece. Form, however must be searched for. See it? It’s hidden in the small houses tucked away under the night sky. I notice that color also dominates this piece, with strokes of blue littering the scene, with a beautiful contrast of yellow to represent stars. I see many organic shapes with the dark figure of the cypress tree, and…

Even though this was my first trip to the Museum of Fine Arts and second to any art museum, I could tell that it was a unique place. After walking through the thick, futuristic glass doors into the first exhibit, I was awestruck with the sheer amount of paintings on displays. In all directions, there were hundreds of paintings lining the walls. Even though there are so many paintings, each one was aesthetically pleasing and representative of mastery in the craft. Surprisingly, after taking a…

Picasso was traditionally trained by his father, José Ruiz y Blasco, a Spanish painter. A child prodigy that made a name for himself by departing from his traditional training and creating works of art that revolutionized the art world. Picasso’s most famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, broke from the traditional style of the time. The balance of classical paintings can be seen with balance with five figures represented—one in the center of the painting, flanked by two figures on each…

hedonistic. Considered one of the lowest types of art by the French Academy, Still Life with a Bottle of Rum, Shoes, and Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill are three still paintings that have managed to rise above the typical wave that have been produced by artists of varying skills for centuries. Though looking at each alone does not truly illuminate the reasoning…