Why Van Gogh cut his ear Van Gogh and Gauguin were sharing a small room in Arles‚ France. The evening before the ear cutting incident they were at a Cafe drinking absinthe‚ a known epileptogenic drink that is now illegal. For no apparent reason Van Gogh picked up his absinthe and threw it at Gauguin. The next day he couldn’t remember having done it. Gauguin told him he was going to go elsewhere‚ which upset Van Gogh. Gauguin went out for a walk... "Going to his mirror and taking up his razor
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Van Gogh vs Salvador Dali The focus of the paper is to make a comparison and contrasts between Van Gogh’s ’Starry Night’ and Salvador Dali’s ’Persistence of time’. While Van 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. The ’Persistence of Time’ is regarded as one of the most
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interpretation of the viewer. The language of Art is like the body language on a persons face‚ the story is shown and emotion conveyed through the textures‚ colours and composition. The artists‚ Freydoon Rassouli‚ Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn and and Vincent Van Gogh will be used to examine this principle. The works of these artists‚ are for them‚ a way of showing the self within. They take their emotions‚ influences and through a chosen topic in a thematic sense‚ splash it across a canvass with
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MWF Vincent van Gogh "As for me‚ I am rather often uneasy in my mind‚ because I think that my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments‚ adversities‚ changes keep me from developing fully and naturally in my artistic career." Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work‚ notable for its rough beauty‚ emotional honesty and bold color‚ had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. Vincent van Gogh was born on March
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A Study in Portraits – da Vinci and Van Gogh Two of the greatest artists of all time would have to be Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) and Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890). Da Vinci was an artistic genius‚ as well as an ingenious inventor and scientist‚ while Van Gogh was an artistic savant whose mental instability cut short a career of wonder and enlightenment. Both artists presented works that made people look both outside at the artwork itself as well as inside the individual viewer in order
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06/21/2013 W6A1 Case Study of Vincent van Gogh For this paper I chose Vincent van Gogh as my artist. He is one of the more interesting artists I have researched. I had a multitude of different artists that I was contemplating on using. In the end Starry Night managed to capture my attention the most. He had a very unique way of painting. It was very much so different than most of the others that I observed. Vincent Willem van Gogh‚ or simply know as Vincent van Gogh‚ was born on March 30‚ 1853. His
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I was first introduced to Vincent Van Gogh’s artwork through a YouTube video in my Art Appreciation Class. The video displays some of his more popular paintings. It is set to the tune of ‘Starry Starry Night‚’ a song written by Don McLean. McLean wrote the song as a tribute to Van Gogh and told the story of Van Gogh’s life through his own eyes. McLean portrays Van Gogh as somewhat of a tormented soul who took his own life. I could almost feel Van Gogh’s pain through the mixture of visual and
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Starry Night is created by artist Vincent Van Gogh and in my opinion the setting is something the public may relate to‚ the swirling affect in the picture directs the viewers eyes around the whole painting. Also the spaces among the curving contours and the stars creates a dot to dot effect. The painting is brimming with shining stars and a beautiful bright crescent moon and everything is surrounded by magical whirling clouds. The contoured forms in this piece of artwork convey emotion and are means
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Vincent van Gogh‚ the painter of such works as Irises‚ Wheat Field with Cypresses‚ and The Starry Night is one of the most influential and famous artists of all time. However‚ he suffered greatly with mental illness‚ including bipolar disorder‚ depression‚ and alcoholism. Throughout his life enigmatic life‚ van Gogh suffered with bipolar disorder. He was known to have “horrible fits of anxiety‚ apparently without cause‚ or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.…and
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"Le Café de nuit" which is French for "The Night Café" made by Vincent Van Gogh in 1888. Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch artist whose work was notable for its rough beauty‚ emotional honesty‚ and bold color. The movement that Van Gogh made this painting during the Post Impressionism Movement. Vincent Van Gogh is a unique and outstanding artist who had a dramatic life that affected his paintings. At the age of twenty-seven‚ Van Gogh decided to devote his life for art because he believed in the power of
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