The artist I chose is Vincent van Gogh‚ because he is my favorite artist whose artwork always catches my eye. Van Gogh’s work is known for its beauty‚ color‚ and emotion. He influenced the 20th century a lot. Even though for most of his life he was poor and went unknown he continued to create beautiful pieces of artwork. Van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands on March 30‚ 1853 and died in France on July 29‚ 1890 from a self-inflicted gunshot. Van Gogh was influenced by color and light‚
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Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork ‘starry night’ is a classic example of the post impressionism movement. Post-impressionist were artist who rebelled against the limitations of impressionism. They developed person styles that focus on emotional‚ structural‚ symbolic and spiritual elements they felt were missing from impressionism. ‘Starry Night’ was created in 1889‚ earlier that year Van Gogh decided to enter the asylum at Saint-Rémy. ‘Starry night’ was inspired by the view from his window in the asylum
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Alex Montalbano Vincent van Gogh 1 In the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh‚ you see two prominent swirls in the background in the sky. One swirl flows into the second‚ smaller swirl. Both light blue swirls are flowing to the right through a dark blue night sky. In the upper right hand corner is a yellow-orange crescent moon surrounded by a yellow glow. Also in the background are eleven variously sized yellow-orange stars scattered amongst the blue sky. At the bottom of the background‚ right
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this paper is to make a comparison and highlight contrasts between Van Gogh ’s ’Starry Night ’ and Salvador Dali ’s ’Persistence of time ’. While Gogh ’s theme formed the basis of expressionism in twentieth century‚ Dali initially became a leader of the Surrealist movement and later on developed interests in psychology and science‚ both movements influencing their beliefs and formal approaches in distinctive ways. Vincent Van Gogh‚ the post-Impressionist artist‚ is the most legendary and well-renowned
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Van Gogh painted this piece in 1889 while he was in Saint Rémy seeking treatment in a mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to
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distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my understanding of the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy’s and the painting ‘starry starry night’ by Vincent van Gogh. This has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in Maestro and the use of colour‚ shading‚ lighting and placement in ‘starry starry night’.In saying this‚ this gives evidence as I do strongly agree with the statement ‘‘The visual image has a significant impact on the way the
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Starry Night Over the Rhone was painted along the banks of the Rhine River. What I first see when I look at this painting is the city lights reflecting off the water while a couple takes a walk on the nearby shore. The sky is filled with stars‚ including the Great Bear‚ commonly known as the Big Dipper. Van Gogh shifted the sky around in order to create an even more extraordinary display of stars. From his point of view the town of Arles lay to the south west; the Big Dipper he painted in the sky
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One of van Gogh’s main beliefs was that art was a direct representation of how the artist feels. Having grown up in a very religious family‚ van Gogh viewed the heavens as a beautiful‚ living thing. His heavy brushstrokes and vivid colors portray the night sky as crazy and chaotic and the village below as peaceful and serene. Van Gogh’s troubled life‚ which involved many failures in life‚ love and business‚ forced him
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Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30‚ 1853 and die on July 29‚ 1890. He was a post-impressionist painter and was notice for his beautiful and colorful art works that merged with his emotions. Van Gogh struggled with mental illness and was poor throughout most of his life. He even cut off his ear in a moment of instability and offered it to a prostitute that he had a complicated love affair with. Vincent Van Gogh was most known for his art piece “The Starry Night” in which he painted “in the asylum
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Hannah Cressy English VO1A Dickson-Lew April 9th‚2013 A Starry Night by Anne Sexton Anne Sexton‚ born on November 9‚ 1928 in Massachusetts‚ was an American poet known for her highly personal and confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer prize in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies‚ long battle against depression‚ and intimate details from her private life. Anne spent most of her childhood in Boston. On August 16th‚1948 she married Alfred Sexton and they
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