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    The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh is an infamous work of art that many people find captivating (many for it’s vibrant colors and elaborate design, and some for the history of it’s creation). Van Gogh is an artist known for his elaborate works of art, those of which came in high demand after his death. As well being a mostly self taught artist, he produced over a 2,000 works of art, all of which are now praised for their beauty and design. Van Gogh, while brilliant, became mentally ill over the years, and admitted himself into a mental institution after numerous violent episodes. This work of art, The Starry Night, is inspiring to me because of it’s context: as a work of art created by van Gogh while he resided in the mental institution; it shows that no matter how taxing someone’s life is at the moment, they can still succeed in the things that they find comfort in, and can find beauty in times when only ugliness is prominent. Vincent van Gogh is an artist born in Zundert,…

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    To this day, The Starry Night still remains as an elusive work of art to art critics and students since its creation. Because Van Gogh's intentions of painting this piece were not known, critics tend to break down and analyze the painting through several different lenses. Some critics view this work as a religious piece depicting a story from the Bible. Others contend that Van Gogh was driven by the historical influences and public fascination with astronomy and astrology at the time. I,…

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    When Vincent Van Gogh created this painting he had to have thought out the design greatly because it is bursting with plenty of elements and principles of design. The design aspects of this painting are great and lead you all over the place to give you a story and understanding of the painting. Starry Night has many design elements and principles. Van Gogh used the primary triad in this painting. Blue is heavily used throughout the whole piece. Yellow is used mostly in the top part of the…

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    The Starry night by Anne Sexton is a lot deeper than you might think when you first read it. To really understand the way Sexton writes you must first know more about her back story. It explains in the beginning that she was a troubled housewife that later committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. IN which, If you know anything about Van Gogh (The artist of the painting Sexton writes about) her death is similar to how he also committed suicide. This poem is both simple and complex due to…

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    Final Art Paper What category does the art fall under? (Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramic, Metal Work, other) How can you tell? This artwork (Starry Night) falls under the painting category for art. You can tell this because because of the brush strokes visible and how the color is somewhat blended together. Turn your attention to the piece as a whole. Take a few minutes to look at the artwork in its entirety and answer the following questions. a. How does the artist use color? Are there…

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    Theme: Camping Literature Information: Rylant, Cynthia. Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night. New York: Scholastic Inc., 1998. Print. Curriculum Area: Language Arts Student Age: 7-9 year olds Group Size: 25-30 Students Measureable Objective: • Students should be able to ask and answer question about key details found in the test. (CCSS L.1.1) • Students should be able to recall information about character, places, and events found in Henry and Mudge and the Starry Night (CCSS L.1.4) •…

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    presence follows them whether in the inner city of Milwaukee or rural countryside of 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…

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    Kloss (2005) states: “Like most of his magnificent letters, which really qualify as great literature, this passage demonstrates that Vincent looked at Nature as intensely as Cezanne, but filtered it through different psyche; a personality so tenuously balanced on the brink; that the letter, like the painting that followed it, was created in a rush of emotion (L44). In 1889, Van Gogh painted The Starry Night. Kloss states: it is “majestic, expressionistic and unexpected. It is often cited as…

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    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 dry environment. After reading the biography of van Gogh, he suffered depression so I am assuming that is why his picture is…

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    A Very Starry Night Vincent Van Gogh created Starry Night in an asylum looking out his window. This is the way that Van Gogh depicted nature. The painting was the most famous of all the paintings he did. It was the only painting he sold. Van Gogh painted two pictures of Starry Night but they did not come out the way he wanted them to. The idea of Starry Night was over a “land scape and not a town.” (Soth) He wrote to his brother Theo about his vision of what he thought about what he saw outside…

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