Theo van Gogh

José Vivas- Astara created an oil on canvas painting Catalan Scene in 1971 using oil paints. The painting is a landscape painting. The art piece shows the missions with a couple of houses surrounding it. All the houses are connected to each other but they are all different heights. The houses have red tiled roofs and white stucco walls. Close to the houses there is a body of water with trees and grass surrounding it. In the painting you can tell it’s a sunny day by how the painting depicts warm…

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio and Vincent Van Gogh were artist that painted work some 200 years apart. Each contributed many wonderful painting to society. Both were extremely talented and struggled to be discovered. To narrow one down as the bigger contributor to society, I would have to proclaim Caravaggio. The variety and stories depicted in his works are biblically and historically valuable images. Van Gogh’s seemed to paint at a fast rate turning out several paintings that were…

Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1879 he died in June 29, 1940. Klee style was influenced by surrealism, cubism and expressionism. He was a good violinist but as a teenager turned his attention from music into visual arts. In 1898 he went to the Academy of fine arts in Munich. On 1905 he developed his own signature techniques like drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass. Later on between 1903 and 1905, he did a set of etchings called Inventions that would be his first…

The Gross Clinic is a painting done by Thomas Eakins, an American realist painter, who also dabbled in photography. Eakins is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. Throughout Eakins career he had difficulties with the public and critics. The Gross Clinic, 1875 is an oil on canvas, 96" x 77" and was rejected by the art jury for the exhibition in Philadelphia, because it was too brutally realistic. The painting illustrates the prominent surgeon Dr.…

For this paper, I decided to compare and contrast two different styles of artwork that both have the same medium. The two pieces that stood out to me at Willards Art Center in Idaho Falls Idaho were Elise Wilding's tree painting and Bernadette Regnier's flower painting. Both artists, Wilding and Regnier, use the medium of paint to create their beautiful art. While they both use the same medium in their art, they have do have different styles. Wilding uses an expressionism style in her art to…

Edgar Degas was a French painter known for his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings. The painting The Dance Class, painted in 1874, was one of his most famous works because it was one of the most ambitious ones. Degas had used perspective to create an illusion of a three dimensional world. Light and shadow also play a significant role in introducing the painting as three dimensional. While the painting is static, one may focus on how gentle the movements are painted. For example, it…

I chose to write about Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci. I chose Van Gogh because I think that his art although it does have a dark meaning behind it is truly beautiful. My favorite painting done by Van Gogh is his painting titled The Starry Night. I am not a huge art fan but since I can remember this is one piece that I thought was done so incredibly well. The way he expressed the way he felt about death in this was amazing he took something so dark and scary to some people and made it…

In this essay I will be comparing and contrasting the artwork Web #8 by Vjia Celmins and Drapery for a seated figure by Da Vinci. First, we will start off with the differences between the two pieces of art work. The mediums for Web # 8 is a dry media, charcoal on paper while Drapery for a Seated Figure is a liquid media, grey distemper on grey linen canvas. Vija's piece Web #8 is a charcoal piece containing line work such as cross hatching and a gray scale. Her line work I considered cross…

Piet Mondrian was born March 7, 1872, as Pieter Cornerlis Mondriaan. He is well known for his involvement in the Dutch art movement De Stijl which “advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and color” (Neo-Plasticism and De Stijl). This means simplified shapes, ideally composed of just vertical or horizontal directions, and only primary colors in addition to black and white. From this concept, Mondrian produce many famous abstract paintings made up of…

Between the “Portrait of a Rabbi” and “Juno” the “Portrait of a Rabbi” looks to be the least finished of the two. There are aspects of both paintings that has caused some to claim that they are unfinished works. However, both works are completed works by Rembrandt. “Portrait of a Rabbi” demonstrates simple use of lines and economical use of paint. There are parts of his clothes in the bottom left corner that are indistinguishable and are made from a few brushstrokes. Rembrandt has used brush…