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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difference of opinion‚ controversy‚ and many other contemporary issues. Art can also been viewed in many different mediums; such as music‚ paintings‚ the written word whether that be prose or poetry‚ photography as well as many more forms. I will be discussing the famous painter of Van Gogh and a painting that he described as ugly. Van Gogh described this painting as “…one of the ugliest I have done…” He then stated that he tried to show the fervor of the human race describing various colors when
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simulated textures goes back to classical antiquity in the paintings of the Hellenistic Period. • The term Hellenistic refers to the spread of Greek culture beyond Greece— especially to the East—as a result of Alexander’s conquests • Battle of Issus 333BCmosaic-detail Battle of Issus‚ from the House of the Faun‚
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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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Vincent van Gogh is one of the most important figures in art history. His works are recognized all across the world for their bright colors and his extraordinary style of painting. Vincent based his art off of his life which was filled with heartbreak‚ childhood troubles and mental disabilities. He lived a rough life of 37 years full of mental and physical health conditions. These conditions were not his only problem. He had many problems finding love‚ which he never did and he had problems growing
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Stated by Vincent Van Gogh‚ the quote “Art is to console those who are broken by life” is applicable to people who self-express through creativity. When suffering‚ a person’s mind is a cage of raw emotion‚ holding each dark thought hostage. People implode very easily‚ and feelings have a way of capturing people and can gnaw at their insides incessantly. However‚ creativity and self-expression through some form of art can be truly cathartic for those who need it. Putting emotion in the words of a
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During the Modern Era of the late 19th century and the early 20th century‚ many artists were turning away from the idea of painting realistic images. Photography‚ having just been developed for public use a few decades earlier‚ made artists of the day focus less on painting as an precise copy of what is seen‚ as had been done for centuries. Since the Middle Ages‚ most artists painted exact representations of life. Starting in the late 1800s‚ though‚ many artists were starting to embrace the theory
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The suicide note of Vincent Willem van Gogh “My dear brother‚ Thanks for your kind letter and for the 50-fr note in contained. There are many things I should like to write you about but I feel it useless. I hope you have found those worthy gentlemen favorably disposed towards you. Your reasurring me as to the peacefuless of your household was hardly worth the trouble‚ I think having seen the weal and woe of it myself. And I quite agree with you that rearing boy on the fourth floor is hell
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interpretation of the viewer. The language of Art is like the body language on a persons face‚ the story is shown and emotion conveyed through the textures‚ colours and composition. The artists‚ Freydoon Rassouli‚ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and and Vincent Van Gogh will be used to examine this principle. The works of these artists‚ are for them‚ a way of showing the self within. They take their emotions‚ influences and through a chosen topic in a thematic sense‚ splash it across a canvass with
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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 of all modern Dutch artists. He started painting in his
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