Expressive Paintings
Art & Design - Expressive Essay – Paintings
In this essay I will be looking at three different styles of paintings; two paintings from the famous Vincent Van Gogh and one from the artistic Maurice Vlaminck. I will talk about the seven visual elements – texture, shape, colour, tone, line, pattern and form - and if they are used in each painting. Also I will talk about the brushwork and if they use small brushstrokes or large brushstrokes. These three paintings are all different and show different situations but they are the same as well because they are all pictures of landscapes. I will talk about how much detail is in each painting.
‘The Harvest at La Crau’ is the first painting that I am going to talk about. It is by Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post- Impressionist painter. Post – Impressionism is a style that artists would use including using vivid colours, thick use of paint and unique brush strokes. He was born in 1853 and died in 1890. His work was beautiful and emotional with its bold colours and rough textures which no one was impressed by at the time he was alive. However, many people today still love Van Gogh’s work of art and would pay millions for his work. He didn’t fit into any painting school because of his unique colour sense. In his life he produced 860 oil paintings. When Van Gogh was a child he loved to draw and until the day he died, his love for art got stronger and stronger. Unfortunately he had a problem; he had depression because no one appreciated his work and he gave up his life and committed suicide in 1890.
“Harvest at La Crau” was painted in 1888 and the size is 72 x 92 cm. The painting shows a farm life in the French countryside during the harvest season. The painting is divided into three, the foreground, the fields and the workers in the middle ground and the mountains and skies in the background. The foreground shows a fence and the start of the wheat field. The pattern of the fence is effective because
In this essay I will be looking at three different styles of paintings; two paintings from the famous Vincent Van Gogh and one from the artistic Maurice Vlaminck. I will talk about the seven visual elements – texture, shape, colour, tone, line, pattern and form - and if they are used in each painting. Also I will talk about the brushwork and if they use small brushstrokes or large brushstrokes. These three paintings are all different and show different situations but they are the same as well because they are all pictures of landscapes. I will talk about how much detail is in each painting.
‘The Harvest at La Crau’ is the first painting that I am going to talk about. It is by Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post- Impressionist painter. Post – Impressionism is a style that artists would use including using vivid colours, thick use of paint and unique brush strokes. He was born in 1853 and died in 1890. His work was beautiful and emotional with its bold colours and rough textures which no one was impressed by at the time he was alive. However, many people today still love Van Gogh’s work of art and would pay millions for his work. He didn’t fit into any painting school because of his unique colour sense. In his life he produced 860 oil paintings. When Van Gogh was a child he loved to draw and until the day he died, his love for art got stronger and stronger. Unfortunately he had a problem; he had depression because no one appreciated his work and he gave up his life and committed suicide in 1890.
“Harvest at La Crau” was painted in 1888 and the size is 72 x 92 cm. The painting shows a farm life in the French countryside during the harvest season. The painting is divided into three, the foreground, the fields and the workers in the middle ground and the mountains and skies in the background. The foreground shows a fence and the start of the wheat field. The pattern of the fence is effective because