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    Paul Gauguin Danielle Arnold L. Scott Roberts Art Appreciation 11 November 2011 Paul Gauguin Like so many artists one studies‚ the life of Paul Gauguin was filled with internal struggles on daily matters and beliefs. Gauguin was not dealt an easy life from the very beginning. Born to French journalist and half Peruvian mother‚ Gauguin came to know the cruelty of life at a very young age. In 1851‚ he and his family moved to Peru due to the climate

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    1881 Vincent Van Gogh asked for his cousin’s hand in marriage and was turned down. He was very insistent on seeing her and took action on this by holding his hand in a flame and holding up the words “Let me see her for as long as I can keep my hand in the flame” (Wikipedia‚ Letter 193 from Vincent to Theo‚ The Hague‚ May 14‚ 1882). In 1885 Vincent’s father died (ArtBook: Van Gogh; A profound and tormented genius—his life in paintings‚ 1998). In December of 1888‚ Vincent Van Gogh had been living

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    Who is your favorite artist? For me‚ it is Paul Gauguin. Especially his creation of the Tahitian group of paintings was amazing. By researching‚ I will simply talk about Gauguin and the Tahitian paintings. After‚ describe‚ analyze‚ interpret‚ and evaluate the group of Tahitian paintings with the most representable one - “Tahitian Woman on the Beach”. Paul Gauguin‚ a French Post-Impressionist artist‚ was an important figure in Symbolist art movement of the early 1900s. He was recognized for his

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    Sunflowers by Vincent [b]Van[/b] "The sunflower is me in some way." -Vincent van Gogh Van Gogh’s "Sunflowers" are among his most famous paintings‚ but few realize that many sunflower pictures‚ not only the most famous "Vase with Twelve Sunflowers" and "Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers." These were canvases he decorate the Yellow House in Arles in anticipation of the visit of his friend Paul Gauguin‚ and hope that others will follow him and form a utopianArt community. Some of the paintings of Vincent’s

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    Vincent Van Gogh- Irises- 1889 Irises-1889 Vincent Van Gogh J-Paul Getty Museum Oil Pint During Van Goghs stay in the asylum at Saint- Remy‚ he devoted himself entirely to his artwork calling it the ’lightening conductor for his illness’ he believed that painting was the only thing that kept him from loosing his sanity. His painting ’the irises’ was the first completed work in the asylum‚ which differes from his later pieces as it does not show traces of tension and bad mood

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    Vincent van Gogh was a unique artist who worked with a sense of urgency which often caused him a great deal of stress. He was famed for his bold‚ dramatic brush strokes which expressed emotion and added a feeling of movement to his works. It´s thought that he often used paint straight from the tube (impasto) and in the 70 days leading up to his death‚ he averaged one painting per day. Early Years: Largely self-taught‚ van Gogh started his career copying prints and reading nineteenth-century

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    With only 13 years between the births of the two artists‚ we could say that Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh were born in the same period. They may have been born quite close together but both men discovered art was their vocations almost 20 years apart‚ which may have been why they are such different artists. Monet had a head start on Van Gogh as he was introduced to art at a very young age. Monet also had a mentor who taught him the tricks of the trade and pushed him from caricatures to landscape

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    and stationery. It was also the picture that Van Gogh was most proud of. Van Gogh‚ Sunflowers‚ 1888 It was painted during a rare period of excited optimism‚ while Van Gogh awaited the arrival of his hero‚ the avant-garde painter Paul Gauguin. The lonely and passionate Vincent had moved to Arles‚ in the South of France‚ where he dreamed of setting up a community of artists with Gauguin as its mentor. The ’Sunflowers’ was intended to impress Gauguin and was a gesture of friendship. The alliance

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    Kaitlin Moreno The College of Mount Saint Vincent English 110 Professor Jessica Rogers October 29‚ 2014 Escaping Through Ourselves In 1888 Vincent Van Gogh painted Vincent’s Bed in Arles a brightly painted oil on canvas‚ measuring to 72x 90cm‚ this was of his little bedroom in France. When one thinks of a bedroom it brings about emotions of safety. One’s personal sanctuary where the world does not exist‚ no pains of reality can touch you. It seems when one closes their bedroom door all mundane

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    Vincent Van Gogh

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    Vincent van Gogh Born on March 30‚ 1853 in Groot-Zundert‚ Holland‚ Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch-post impressionist painter whose work influenced art a lot in the twentieth century. His father was a pastor‚ so van Gogh was brought up in a religious matter. As a child‚ van Gogh was silent‚ serious and thoughtful; he was also emotional and lacked self-confidence. By the time‚ van Gogh decided to become an artist‚ he’d already had two unhappy romances‚ had worked as a clerk at a bookstore‚ was an art

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