Vincent Van Gogh and His Contribution to Art.
Art has been essential to civilization. It tells us what our culture is. Every artist in history has been writing, composing, and painting the stories of each culture. Master painters like Jaques Louis David painted Napoleon and other historical paintings during the Neoclassical Period. Master composers, such as Bethoven composed works like the Moonlight Sonata. Art defines who are we are, It is civilization, and artists like Vincent Van Gogh influenced the modern world. And even though he lived more than a hundred and fifteen years ago, his work is still altering the way we view beauty, persona and individuality.
Vincent Van Gogh is considered to be one of the most prolific Dutch painters of all time. He only lived to be thirty seven years and was little appreciated during his lifetime. He grew famous some years after his death. He started painting in his late twenties and one of the most unusual facts about Van Gogh is the span of his works. Most artists that uphold historic recognition spend their entire life producing the works that become classics but most of his famous works were made during the final two years of his life. He produced more than two thousand artworks, consisting of around nine hundred paintings and one thousand one-hundred drawings and sketches. And all of his work was done in a period of just ten years before he got mentally ill and committed suicide.
His pieces include landscapes, portraits, self-portraits and sunflowers and are the most recognizable works of art. His usage of bold, intense colors, his emphatic brushwork is what made him so unique. Contoured forms of his work are very expensive and even emotional. He used colors for expressing emotions; he was not like the other impressionists who used colors just for the reproduction of visual appearances. He painted what he saw, not the established view, he painted what he felt, not always what was in front of him, and because he was so passionate about his paintings and he valued
Vincent Van Gogh is considered to be one of the most prolific Dutch painters of all time. He only lived to be thirty seven years and was little appreciated during his lifetime. He grew famous some years after his death. He started painting in his late twenties and one of the most unusual facts about Van Gogh is the span of his works. Most artists that uphold historic recognition spend their entire life producing the works that become classics but most of his famous works were made during the final two years of his life. He produced more than two thousand artworks, consisting of around nine hundred paintings and one thousand one-hundred drawings and sketches. And all of his work was done in a period of just ten years before he got mentally ill and committed suicide.
His pieces include landscapes, portraits, self-portraits and sunflowers and are the most recognizable works of art. His usage of bold, intense colors, his emphatic brushwork is what made him so unique. Contoured forms of his work are very expensive and even emotional. He used colors for expressing emotions; he was not like the other impressionists who used colors just for the reproduction of visual appearances. He painted what he saw, not the established view, he painted what he felt, not always what was in front of him, and because he was so passionate about his paintings and he valued
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