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 last ten years of life‚ however failed to sell any of his nine hundred paintings during his life. His drawings and oil paintings are now regarded as one of the best known and most expensive art-works in the world. Most of his pictures can easily be recognized from the broad brushstrokes of thick impasto paint. It was applied
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in his own mind. I want to dive deeper into the life of this brilliant‚ yet completely crazy man‚ who has produced more than 2‚100 artworks‚ made up of some 1‚300 watercolors and 860 oil paintings(Vincent Van Gogh Biography‚ quotes & paintings‚ The Art History Archive; retrieved 12 July 2011)‚ It remains a mystery what exactly drove him to this point‚ who and what were some of the people and things that
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The Carnegie Museum of Art houses many fine art paintings that span throughout the centuries‚ including famous works by countless artists in different styles‚ from renaissance to contemporary. One famous work includes a piece by Vincent van Gogh’s Wheat Fields after the Rain (The Plain of Auvers)‚ painted in 1890 in Gallery 8‚ Scaife Galleries of the museum. It was acquired through the generosity of the Sarah Mellon Scaige Family‚ and its acquisition number is 68.18. The painting’s dimensions are
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The (joy of life) and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon can be simultaneously seen as inspired by and breaking free of Paul Cézanne’s‚ because the joy of life It is a large-scale painting that has a brilliant colored forest which has been depicting an Arcadian landscape filled with‚ meadow‚ sea‚ and sky and populated by nude figures both at rest and in motion while Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon has sensual eroticism with these kinds of aggressively crude pornography that has a landscape
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it. People believe after his father’s death Gogh’s artistic talents were unbound due to his technique‚ and talents that changed miraculously. He painted people he knew‚ things he had seen‚ and pieces of art that would reflect personal feelings‚ and emotions. It is critical while admiring Gogh’s art to understand when and where he created it‚ the style he used‚ and why he choose to paint
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On March 30‚1853 in Groot Zundert‚ Netherlands a legendary artist who will forever change art is born;his name is Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh lived a tragic life facing many struggles and several triumphs‚but he will always be remembered in history for being one of the most inspirational artists. Growing up Van Gogh’s family was fairly big:his family consisted of his parents‚three sisters‚two brothers‚ and of course Van Gogh himself. Van Gogh was also a troubled child‚ however‚ he noticeably was attached
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In the Museum of Modern Art‚ many paintings are illustrations of nature portrayed in different ways. Vincent van Gogh’s The Olive Trees and Gustav Klimt’s The Park are clear examples of this. The Olive Trees‚ painted in 1889‚ and The Park‚ painted in about 1910 or earlier‚ are both from the Post-Impressionist movement‚ this explaining why they are painted in a realistic manner. The paintings of Gustav Klimt and Vincent van Gogh both illustrate the trees and nature and are oil on canvas‚ but in
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the elements and principles of art. While developing his techniques‚ Van Gogh was inspired by many artists such as Anton Mauve and Jean Francois Millet‚ adopting and changing his perspective into his style for his paintings. Other contemporary artists were inspired by Van Gogh‚ such as Henri Matisse‚ and Pablo Picasso producing an individual style‚ relating to different art movements. The discussion of Vincent Van Gogh explains the significance of his style in art‚ a brief‚ synopsis‚ of his medium
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Moore 1 Alexis Moore" Professor Braden" English 101" 03 December 2013" The Persistence of Memory! " In 1931‚ an artist by the name of Salvador Dali created one of his most famous painting to date‚ The Persistence of Memory. Dali did most of the painting one evening when he was alone waiting for his wife‚ Gala‚ to return from the movies. “He claims that the idea came to him when a headache triggered‚ that waiting for Gala seemed interminable and the distortion of time made him think of melting clocks”(Sperling
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The piece is oil on canvas‚ and is 73.7 x 92.1 cm. Starry‚ Starry night is home to The Museum of Modern Art in New York. “The curving‚ swirling lines of hills‚ mountains‚ and sky; the brilliantly contrasting blues and yellows; the large‚ flame-like cypress trees; and the thickly layered brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s The Starry Night are ingrained
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