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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Van Gogh Born: 30 March 1853 in Zundert‚ Netherlands Died: 29 July 1890‚ aged 37 Nationality: Dutch Van Gogh worked as missionary in Belgium (mining region) where he began to sketch people and study art but started drawing from early age which he then decided he wanted to become an artist. He started painting in his late 20’s. Van Gogh completed over 1‚000 drawings in total and regarded drawing as a basic task enabling him to grow artistically and to study form and movement. Drawing was also
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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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Art 101 Week 3 Assignment 2 When comparing the lines in the Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night painting and Sol LeWitt’s the Wall Drawing No. 681‚ the lines are the opposite. In the Starry Night painting the lines of the sky are very curvy and flowing‚ but the lines of the buildings are very straight. The artist in this painting is showing you a vision he has had during the time he was in the asylum. The lines of the sky are erratic‚ and it shows how the artist was feeling very unstable
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Van Gogh is a widely famous artist of the late 1880s. He is most famous for his work Starry Night. Born in 1853‚ Vincent’s artistic career started in his twenties after having many different types of careers (Living with Art 11). From being a student to a preacher to a bookseller‚ he finally found a life of art (Van Gogh Museum). He seemed to have struggled greatly with self-esteem and self-worth‚ as he struggled with many women in his short time and‚ as his work shows‚ his art follows his path of
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Despite my limited knowledge about art‚ its components‚ and the artists who create their masterpieces‚ Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night is probably my favorite piece of artwork in the textbook. I love this painting and chose it because to me‚ this piece of work is so serene yet captivating and stimulating at the same time. I believe that if a piece of art can evoke that many emotions in a person‚ then it is truly a masterpiece. I actually have a replica of The Starry Night hanging in my house
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Vincent van Gogh Vincent van Gogh is a famous artist‚ he had a very troubled life‚ his relationship with his brother was inseparable‚ and his works were the best ever. He was born on March 30‚ 1853‚ at Groot-Zundert in the province of Brabant. His father was a priest‚ because of that his father was a real serious‚ religious man that rarely expressed emotions towards Vincent. Vincent’s uncle was a partner in Goupil and Company art dealers. Vincent entered the firm at age 16‚ he went to London with
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Van Gogh’s Bedroom Van Gogh’s Bedroom also known as The bedroom at Arles‚ is one of Van Gogh’s later pieces accomplished upon his stay in Arles‚ France. The portrait of his bedroom there is done in oil on canvas‚ a favorite medium of Van Gogh. This representational piece of a bedroom gives the patron an altered sense of space and scale‚ as well as a restful dreamlike quality. The artist creates an asymmetrical world with evident visual weight. Subordination gives emphasis to the focal point of the
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Anne’s inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. It begins with a quote from a letter written by Van Gogh‚ which says that he has a deep need for religion‚ and that it is when he feels this need that he goes out and paints the stars. This is very profound because it is about man’s need for something everlasting and holy. Even though Van Gogh didn’t want religion in his life‚ he still had a need for the holy. By creating the painting of the stars‚ Van Gogh was‚ in effect‚ memorializing
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I chose to write about Van Gogh’s Starry Night‚ because I think that this painting is one of the greater pioneer forms of abstract art. Van Gogh’s rendering of the world the way that he perceived it‚ blended with his own stigmatic emotion‚ is evidenced by his abstract depiction of this small village in the south of France; Starry Night is aesthetically‚ artistically‚ and technically unique. Starry night is a depiction of an actual village that Van Gogh visited during his lifetime. At the risk
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