Vincent Willem Van Gogh was born 30th March 1853 in Zudert‚ Netherlands. He is generally considered the greatest Dutch painter after Rembrandt ( known for his Baroque style painting )‚ though he had little success during his life time‚ Van Gogh produced all of his work (some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings ) during a period of 10 years before he succumbed to mental illness ( possible bipolar disorder) and committed suicide. His fame grew rapidly after his death especially following a showing of
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Group: 1 // Word count : 448 words Date of submission: October‚ 6‚ 2015 Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists. He was born on March 30‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work‚ notable for its beauty‚ emotion and color‚ highly influenced 20th century art. He struggled with mental illness‚ and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29‚ 1890‚ at age 37‚ from a self-inflicted gunshot wound
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Vincent van Gogh displays a large transition in the composition of his works towards his late career. While his early works were composed of dark colors‚ with a focus in browns and blacks‚ van Gogh developed a more colorful palette‚ larger painterly strokes‚ and a more diverse array of content towards his late career. Julie York states in her article‚ “His penetrating self-portraits… lend insight to human character and to van Gogh’s uncompromising vision.” Between 1886 and 1889 his self-portraits
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Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Anh Le Humanities 1301 Professor Philip Noguere 02 December 2013 Anh Le Professor Noguere Humanities 1301 02 December 2013 Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Vincent Van Gogh is a unique and outstanding artist who had a dramatic life that affected his paintings. At the age of twenty-seven‚ Vincent decided to devote his life for art because “Vincent believed in the power of art. To him‚ a work of art‚ whether drawing
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things it can vary from color‚ mass‚ size‚ and shape. In addition the form‚ balance‚ background space‚ and value can all be not the same. Not just visible things can depart from one another also the overall feel and mood of the piece of art. Vincent van Gogh was born in the Netherlands where he spent his early life in various
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Joey Pelliccia Documented Essay 12/11/10 Vincent Van Gogh: Madman and Artist Vincent Van Gogh‚ from the words of many‚ is one of the most famous post-impressionist painters of modern art the world has ever seen. Van Gogh was a serious‚ smart thinking man that found art to be the passion of his life. Van Gogh was a driven artist‚ but inside was a fragile‚ ill man that was consumed by his sickness. One way to fully understand Van Gogh’s thinking about his art‚his thoughts‚ and his beliefs
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Vincent Van Gogh‚ genius or madman? ‘The connection between genius and mental illness is paradoxically both clearer and murkier than that between genius and high intelligence.’ (Published on March 31‚ 2011‚ Andrew Robinson) Van Gogh‚ possibly the most famous example of a known genius who beared the title of a mentally ill individual‚ had severe depression‚ inflicted serious injury on his own earlobe in the year of 1888‚ admitted himself to a mental facility‚ and shot himself in 1890‚ yet he is one
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Vincent Van Gogh The Bold Painter The beautiful painting‚ Starry Night is the most popular‚ well known‚ and one of my favorite paintings of Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890). Some of the other famous paintings of his are Sunflowers‚ Irises‚ and The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh had always said; “There are two ways of thinking about painting‚ how not to do it and how to do it: how to do it - with much drawing and little colour; how not to do it - with much colour and little drawing.”(http://www.vangoghgallery
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The dozens of self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh were an important part of his oeuvre as a painter. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) created many self-portraits during his lifetime. Most probably‚ Van Gogh ’s self portraits are depicting the face as it appeared in the mirror he used to reproduce his face‚ i.e. his right side in the image is in reality the left side of his face. Contents [hide] 1 Periods 1.1 Paris 1886 1.2 Paris 1887 1.3 Arles 1.4 Saint-Rémy 1.5 Auvers-sur-Oise 2 Remarks 3
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Colour recession & Negative space “The Sower” Vincent Van Gogh‚ painted in 1888. He uses a silhouette to represent the raising of ordinary people and the sun creating a halo over his head. He also uses colour recession because there are colour opposites present. Positive space is the tree and the sower‚ the background is the negative space. “Sunflowers” Vincent Van Gogh painted in 1888. It’s not necessarily big on positive and negative space‚ but it is great for colour opposites and recession
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