Vincent van Gogh

I decided to chose Object 1: Vincent van Gogh, Café Terrace at Night, 1888, oil on canvas, KröllerMuller Museum, Otterlo for my design summary/formal analysis. Two elements utilized in this piece of art are texture and color. Texture is the surface quality of a work (Dewitte, Larmann, Shields 62). Color is the optical effect caused when reflected white light of the spectrum is divided into a separate wavelength (Dewitte, Larmann, Shields 92). Implied Texture is displayed throughout this canvas.…

Vincent Van Gogh, Creative process, and the Painting Starry Star When people mention ‘Vincent Van Gogh’, we always think that he is a great artist. Nowadays, his artworks are displayed in many museums and appreciated by people in all over the world. Through the raise of his reputation after his death, his story and life are discovered and shared, which let people give him a new name, “mad genius”. Vincent’s life was not easy. Since he failed his careers as an art dealer, a preacher, and an…

their audience. Media describes the items that the artist used to make that particular art. Vincent Van Gogh is an artist who used two mediums; oil and drawing to create his work of arts, Irises, and Sorrow. Van Gogh also used different techniques along with the media to visually communicate his art works with his audience. Irises is a very famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh used with oil paint. Van Gogh used oil paints in this particular art work to get that perfect pigmented color. Compared…

Your Name Professor Name Subject Name 04 September 20XX Vincent van Gogh as a Mad Genius Vincent van Gogh is celebrated as one of the most influential Western artists in history, but he is also one of the most complex. Born in the mid 1800s in the Netherlands, van Gogh spent the first portion of his life intent on studying theology but turned to art only a decade or so before his death. While he created over two thousand pieces of artwork that are revered today, he was not considered a famous…

February 2016 Nocturne An Analysis of The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh “This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo. Fascinated by oil and water brush style painting, and brooding in a slow gloom of the mind, van Gogh remains the most well known impressionist artist around the world. Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night has risen now to the peak of…

about themselves and even bring their self esteem down. But some of those people don't let the others bring them down because they like to prove those people wrong, just like Vincent Van Gogh once said “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.” Vincent Van Gogh was a dutch post impressionist painter from 1853 to 1890. Boys try to bring girls down by telling girls that they aren’t good at sports. For example, when I…

Potato Eater was one of Vincent van Gogh early canvas and is considered to be his first masterpiece. Painted while living among the peasants and laborers in Nuenen in the Netherlands, Van Gogh wanted to depict the people and their lives truthfully (Vincent van Gogh-The Art Story). As he discovered impressionism, Van Gogh saw himself as a painter of peasant life. Van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo saying,” By continually observing peasant life, at all hours of the day… I have become so involved…

travel to meet Vincent van Gogh in the year 1890. During the episode, the writers used multiple symbols to add depth and meaning to the plot. Sunflowers, the Krafayis, and the color black were all used for a specific purpose in the 47 minute show. In one scene at Vincent van Gogh’s home, the Doctor, van Gogh and Amy all went in his backyard to visit together. When in his backyard, Amy notices that van Gogh had hundreds of planted sunflowers that were many shapes and sizes. She asks van Gogh why…

Assignment #3- Vincent VanGogh Nicholas Quehe Understanding Art – ARTL 2000-02 Fall 2014 Dr. B.Kowalsky PICTURES IN HARD COPY November 21, 2014 Assignment # 3 For this third assignment I had to do some research first to find an artist that was out of the norm and different. Sure, the one I picked is extremely famous and others might pick him as well but what he did in his lifetime and the meanings to some of his of his paintings/drawings are what that truly evoked me into picking him for this…

affected by Eastern culture and art. Famous artist like Van Gogh, Da Vinci and more all show signs of having converging cultures in their work, and especially in the 18th and 19th century when impressionism became popular. The painting I am going to be discussing that has cross convergence is Vincent Van Gogh’s Self-portrait with Bandage Ear. Impressionism was based off of eastern artwork with a western artwork twist to it. Vincent Van Gogh is known for impressionism and Self-portrait with…