Alex Montalbano Vincent van Gogh 1 In the painting Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh‚ you see two prominent swirls in the background in the sky. One swirl flows into the second‚ smaller swirl. Both light blue swirls are flowing to the right through a dark blue night sky. In the upper right hand corner is a yellow-orange crescent moon surrounded by a yellow glow. Also in the background are eleven variously sized yellow-orange stars scattered amongst the blue sky. At the bottom of the background‚ right
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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
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I. Introduction Attention Getter: " First I dream my paintings then I paint my dreams" Van Gough Reason to listen: What makes an individual unique is their passions. Painting has been one of my passions since I could hold a paint brush. Even though I am not great at painting‚ it still is apart of who I am. I have many passions‚ but painting is the one thing I can do when all else fails to make me feel better. It is a visual of how I feel and showing that‚ to me‚ is easier than speaking
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Van Gogh painted this piece in 1889 while he was in Saint Rémy seeking treatment in a mental asylum. Interestingly enough‚ he painted this piece from his memory and it was supposed to have been based on a constellation arrangement he had seen earlier on in the night sky of Provence. Starry Night is perhaps one of his most famous and yet most elusive works. The first thing that I noticed was the overwhelming night sky‚ which takes up most of the background. Its swirling‚ flowing lines appear to
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distinctively visual features has had a positive effect on my understanding of the novel Maestro by Peter Goldsworthy’s and the painting ‘starry starry night’ by Vincent van Gogh. This has been done through distinctively visual features such as descriptive and emotive language in Maestro and the use of colour‚ shading‚ lighting and placement in ‘starry starry night’.In saying this‚ this gives evidence as I do strongly agree with the statement ‘‘The visual image has a significant impact on the way the
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Starry Night Over the Rhone was painted along the banks of the Rhine River. What I first see when I look at this painting is the city lights reflecting off the water while a couple takes a walk on the nearby shore. The sky is filled with stars‚ including the Great Bear‚ commonly known as the Big Dipper. Van Gogh shifted the sky around in order to create an even more extraordinary display of stars. From his point of view the town of Arles lay to the south west; the Big Dipper he painted in the sky
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Vincent van Gogh produced a masterpiece in June 1889 called The Starry Night. This oil on canvas painting gave van Gogh recognition after his death. The art inspired people all around the world. A poet‚ Anne Sexton developed a poem that was influenced by The Starry Night with extra interpretation and meaning of her own behind it. Although these aspects may differ‚ there are a variety of similarities between literature and art. The Starry Night painted by Vincent van Gogh associates to “The Starry Night”
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One of van Gogh’s main beliefs was that art was a direct representation of how the artist feels. Having grown up in a very religious family‚ van Gogh viewed the heavens as a beautiful‚ living thing. His heavy brushstrokes and vivid colors portray the night sky as crazy and chaotic and the village below as peaceful and serene. Van Gogh’s troubled life‚ which involved many failures in life‚ love and business‚ forced him
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perceived as a form that is a false way of knowing‚ as Picasso described‚ “Art as a lie that brings us nearer to the truth.” Meaning art is a lie because it expresses one’s personal imagination and creativity. For example take Vincent van Gogh’s painting of “The Starry Night”‚ it depicts the view from a east-facing window of his asylum at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence‚ just before sunrise‚ however‚ with an addition of an idealized village. This painting follows Picasso’s definition as with the addition of the
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Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30‚ 1853 and die on July 29‚ 1890. He was a post-impressionist painter and was notice for his beautiful and colorful art works that merged with his emotions. Van Gogh struggled with mental illness and was poor throughout most of his life. He even cut off his ear in a moment of instability and offered it to a prostitute that he had a complicated love affair with. Vincent Van Gogh was most known for his art piece “The Starry Night” in which he painted “in the asylum
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