Van Gogh's Starry Night and Salvador Dali's Persistence of Time: Comparison
Sarah Cox
Analysis of Two Visuals
Sept. 23, 2012
English 112-95
The focus of 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 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 by Van Gogh like a sculptor slapping clay on to a relief. Among his most influential models of 'Expressionism ' his masterpieces comprise; 'The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, and various sunflowers ' along with many self-portraits. He left a huge collection of almost nine hundred paintings and more than one thousand sketches and drawings, most of them painted in his last years. (Thomson, 2008)
The 'Starry Night ' is considered as the most famous oil painting of Van Gogh. It shows a typical moonlit scene in Saint-Remy asylum 's neighborhood where he stayed for more than a year during his last period of life. It is pertinent to mention that a comparison of Starry Night has been made to a photograph of a star branded as V838 Monocerotis that was taken in 2004 by the Hubble telescope. The clouds of gas encircling the star are similar to the swirling patterns used by van Gogh in this painting. 'Starry Night ' is regarded as the most famous images in modern cultures. It is also considered as one of the most
Analysis of Two Visuals
Sept. 23, 2012
English 112-95
The focus of 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 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 by Van Gogh like a sculptor slapping clay on to a relief. Among his most influential models of 'Expressionism ' his masterpieces comprise; 'The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters, and various sunflowers ' along with many self-portraits. He left a huge collection of almost nine hundred paintings and more than one thousand sketches and drawings, most of them painted in his last years. (Thomson, 2008)
The 'Starry Night ' is considered as the most famous oil painting of Van Gogh. It shows a typical moonlit scene in Saint-Remy asylum 's neighborhood where he stayed for more than a year during his last period of life. It is pertinent to mention that a comparison of Starry Night has been made to a photograph of a star branded as V838 Monocerotis that was taken in 2004 by the Hubble telescope. The clouds of gas encircling the star are similar to the swirling patterns used by van Gogh in this painting. 'Starry Night ' is regarded as the most famous images in modern cultures. It is also considered as one of the most
Cited: Thomson, R (2008) Vincent Van Gogh: The Starry Night, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Lear, A (1987) Persistence of Memory: A Personal Biography of Salvador Dali, National Press Books