Vincent Vega

their relatives, finding that bpd, or bipolar disorder, is more common in individuals with artistic professions including dancers, photographers and authors (Berman). Some of these neurodivergent creators include Ludwig van Beethoven, Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O 'Keeffe. Saying that they created magnificent pieces would be an understatement, these people were creatively…

Night and Day Hong is largely seen as a master of the essay art films. The film, Night and Day, follows an artist, Kim Seong-nam’s journey in Paris after escaping the Korean government and leaving his wife behind. The film references three common themes of Hong’s style; an artist as a protagonist, an aspect of rebellion, and travel as an excursion. In the film, the artist’s escape from Paris as a result of using Marijuana represents deviance. The film uses romance as a style to further augment…

William Morris was an English painter, designer fabrics and furniture, book designer, a developer of typographic fonts, poet and socialist. He was behind the concept of synthesis, the key concept of the new art. Morris was the founder of the "Arts and Crafts Movement," which took shape as an artistic style in the second half of the 19th century. All participants in the movement united in the belief that artistically designed human environment - pleasing to the eye of the building, artfully…

Cezanne, Picasso and Matisse Artists often are inspired and influenced by the people, places and circumstances surrounding them but artists each tend to imbue their own sense of personality and ideas into their works. For example, Matisse's Bonheur de Vivre (Joy of Life) and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne's The Large Bathers. Beginning with the prominent piece that is to have influenced the other two works,…

How to Be a Good Photographer? “Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art” –Ambrose Bierce. The perception of a beautiful painting is projected from the artist’s mind, feeling and mood; and a major part in completing the artists vision is the way he places the object in his art. Contrary to that some of the most beautiful pictures happen when objects naturally fall into place alas the natural movement of the sun from east to west can create many beautiful versions of…

The painting Number 11, 1949 by Jackson Pollock is one of Pollock’s paintings from his famous “drip period.” The painting is large but not huge, it is about 45 inches tall and 47.5 inches wide, so it is a little bigger than the size of an old TV. This painting does not depict anything in particular. It is an abstract painting, there are no figures present. Instead of containing figures, the painting contains forms. The forms in the painting are created by the many layers of different colored…

Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau was a naïve painter who lived from 1844-1910 but primarily worked from 1884 until his death. The works of Rousseau where distinct and unlike anything else that was being created, this was most likely due to Rousseau’s lack of formal training. Rousseau managed to create imaginative and brilliant pieces based solely on his own intuition and natural skill. There reality of Rousseau’s early life is a bit foggy due to the great mythos that surrounds the artist, in large…

In the mid-1800’s to the early 1900’s two artists are responsible for the modern art movement these two artists are Vincent Van Gogh and Claude Monet. These two artists have very distinct style of painting, however, they both helped to shape the direction of painting would go over the following century. Monet and Van Gogh painted their lives on a canvas and in their thoughts and words. Through both of the men’s paintings we can understand the struggle as artists during this time in history. The…

Gustav Klimt’s ornate, sensual, and decadent style made him not only the most prominent of the Vienna Secessionists but one of the most beloved artists of all time. In his own time, Kilmt was well known for creating paintings, murals, and sketches. One painting that he was most notable for is called the The Kiss. In this painting, his aesthetic sensibilities are not compared with any other artists because he created art that portrayed themes that include love and feminine beauty of the body. He…

The application of color and paint in a piece creates a noticeable surface texture within the work. This surface texture can be used to enhance the general chaos or conversely the straightforwardness of a work. The use of color within the image also has an effect on the overall mood of the painting and the viewer’s perception of the subjects. In Claude Monet’s Grainstacks (Snow Effect) the heavily textured surface of the painting and visibility of the separate brush strokes creates a sense of…