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    Who Is Vincent Van Gogh?

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    Vincent van Gogh displays a large transition in the composition of his works towards his late career. While his early works were composed of dark colors‚ with a focus in browns and blacks‚ van Gogh developed a more colorful palette‚ larger painterly strokes‚ and a more diverse array of content towards his late career. Julie York states in her article‚ “His penetrating self-portraits… lend insight to human character and to van Gogh’s uncompromising vision.” Between 1886 and 1889 his self-portraits

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    Paul Gauguin was born in June 7‚ 1848‚ Paris‚ France and died May 8‚ 1903‚ Atuona‚ Hiva Oa‚ Marquesas Islands‚ French Polynesia. He is one of the leading French painters of the Post-impressionist period‚ whose development of a conceptual method of representation was a decisive step for 20th-century art. From 1891 he lived and worked in Tahiti and elsewhere in the South Pacific‚ where his art work Under the Pandanus setting at. Under the Pandanus was painted shortly after Gauguin arrived on the

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    ¬¬¬ Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (Two Tahitian Women – 1899) Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an extremely influential Post-Impressionist French painter. He went on a trip to Tahiti in hope of inspiration‚ he turned his focus to the beautiful and serene native women and these paintings have become very famous. The one I have chosen is titled Two Tahitian Women and I think it is a good example of gender discourse. The Tahitian culture at the time was very accepting of the human body and people had no

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    The dozens of self-portraits by Vincent van Gogh were an important part of his oeuvre as a painter. Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) created many self-portraits during his lifetime. Most probably‚ Van Gogh ’s self portraits are depicting the face as it appeared in the mirror he used to reproduce his face‚ i.e. his right side in the image is in reality the left side of his face. Contents [hide] 1 Periods 1.1 Paris 1886 1.2 Paris 1887 1.3 Arles 1.4 Saint-Rémy 1.5 Auvers-sur-Oise 2 Remarks 3

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    Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Anh Le Humanities 1301 Professor Philip Noguere 02 December 2013 Anh Le Professor Noguere Humanities 1301 02 December 2013 Vincent Van Gogh’s Work of Art Vincent Van Gogh is a unique and outstanding artist who had a dramatic life that affected his paintings. At the age of twenty-seven‚ Vincent decided to devote his life for art because “Vincent believed in the power of art. To him‚ a work of art‚ whether drawing

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    Vincent Van Gogh Biography

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    Vincent Willem van Gogh Vincent Willem van Gogh was born March 30‚ 1853. He was born in Grout-Zundert Netherlands. He was a post-impressionist painter. He is commonly known as van Gogh. He was highly influenced by 20th century art (Vincent van Gogh‚ 2015). His works are known for their beauty‚ emotion‚ and color. He struggled with mental illness and was poor and unknown his whole life (Van Gogh’s Works‚ 2002-2015). He was very intelligent and even spoke four languages. He spoke French‚ English

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    Vincent Van Gogh: Woe is Me During the last twenty years of the nineteenth century a new form of artistic painting formed. Postimpressionism was a form of art where the artist was highly individual and expressive. Some of the most creative painters in history helped to make the style a success. Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne are two of the most creative and popular painters among the postimpressionists‚ but not the master. The master of the postimpressionist movement was Vincent Van Gogh.

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    self-portraits. These artists use color to emphasize the tone and mood of the art. Van Gogh uses various cool blue tones in “Self portrait with Bandaged Ear” to set the visual path and give rise to rhythm. Frida uses repeated golds and warm browns to harmonize the “Self Portrait Dedicated to Dr. Eloesser”. She also uses vivid colors to emphasize the flowers and “beautiful” things. As far of methods of application‚ Van Gogh uses a thick application of paint on canvas‚ called impasto. Looking at the painting

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    Monet Vs. Vincent Van Gogh

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    events. Basically Artists paint on the events based on their lives. Such as Cloude Monet and Vincent Van Gough‚ their artwork was based on movements of Impressionism and Post Impressionism. Their interest shows outdoor environment to show effect of natural sun light or atmospheric light on day to day life scene. Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” is the great example of outdoor paintings and Vincent Van Gogh’s “The garden of the poets” is based on two poets combining with the garden that he is referring

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    Joey Pelliccia Documented Essay 12/11/10 Vincent Van Gogh: Madman and Artist Vincent Van Gogh‚ from the words of many‚ is one of the most famous post-impressionist painters of modern art the world has ever seen. Van Gogh was a serious‚ smart thinking man that found art to be the passion of his life. Van Gogh was a driven artist‚ but inside was a fragile‚ ill man that was consumed by his sickness. One way to fully understand Van Gogh’s thinking about his art‚his thoughts‚ and his beliefs

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