Starry Night Over the Rhone

Painting the Starry Night Perched atop the living room fireplace, a replica of the Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece “The Starry Night” mesmerized my eyes and imagination. Overcoming the limitations of a 20”x30” dark frame, the hills rolled and the clouds swirled, immersing me within its third dimension. Inspired and amazed by power of rendering trivial scene into a creative art work“The Starry Night” , I challenged myself to create artwork as creative as Van Gogh’s, one that was deserving of the…

Vincent Van Gogh (1853-90), the Post-Impressionist artist, is one of the most famous of all modern Dutch Painters, but his emotional and disturbed characteristics sometimes overshadows his work. To fully comprehend the remarkable impact of 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…

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 together.” - Vincent van Gogh. The photo to the left is of Theo van…

interpretations that have been told are that starry night says that he painted this in June but a letter to Theo Van Gogh’s brother states that it was painted in September. The interpretations that are done on Van Gogh’s paintings are mostly from the letters that were sent from Vincent to Theo. There is another interpretation that is well known and that is that many people belied that Vincent Van Gogh painted starry night from imagination, which is completely false. Starry Night was painted from…

freely experienced and expressed without judgment by others. 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…

southern Scotland. The night sky portrays a sense of intricate detail covering the entire horizon as far as the eye can see. Nature’s vastness contains power and encompasses a sense of motion, especially when glancing up at the night sky. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh utilizes intricate brushstrokes to portray the nighttime. Van Gogh’s representation of the night sky utilizes colors and intricate brush strokes to portray a depiction of nature’s impact. “Such a painting as Starry Night… with…

landscape. Basically, I think of a landscape to make someone feel happy. My thoughts of a landscape are similar to van Gogh’s because he has buildings, houses and rolling hills in his landscape. My thoughts differ because his landscape is dark and also at night where as I picture a landscape being during the day or at sunset. Also, in his landscape I can’t tell if there is any grass which leaves me thinking if there was grass or not. When I think of a town without grass I think of a desert and a…

glittering, gleams.” The alliteration is not the only literary device that Shakespeare uses in those lines as “sunny beams,” is paradoxical when referring to a moon. To summarize, in Act 5, the moon’s bright light is what shines through the crazy night that all had…

Tooba Malik Les Orangers ART 01, Art Appreciation 24 October 2017 Les Orangers The Orange Trees a painting by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte is part of a collection donated to the museum Of fine arts, Houston. The picture portrays a daytime scene; this canvas was painted in Yerres in 1878. The person sitting in the shade of the orange trees with his back towards the viewer is Caillebotte sibling Martial and standing at one of the garden planters is his cousin Zoé, you can see them…

Though there were many styles of art presented in the lecture this week, the ones that fascinated me the most were realism, impressionism and post-impressionism. Interestingly, all three of these styles have their own way of illuminating the viewer/audience. While realism captures people and events of their own time, impressionism captures effects of light, fleeting moments of color. Post-impressionism, on the other hand, expresses emotions through quality of formal element such as color, line,…