This work of art is a seascape painting‚ painted with oil and painted on canvas. The artist was Peter Monamy (1681-1749). The painting portrays three ships stuck in a storm. There is a main ship‚ a ship in the background‚ as well as‚ another ship behind that. Through research it is not known if the artist was depicting a certain event in time‚ but some say it was a depiction of “the great gale of 1703” or when Sir Cloudisley Shovell’s fleet was stuck in a storm in 1707. I chose this painting because
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This artwork is a realistic‚ but expressive painting produced in 1889 by Vincent Van Gogh‚ He painted it in single sitting after having a mental breakdown and injuring himself after a collapse. The portrait tries to convey his distress‚ how everything around him seems to be collapsing in on him and how his only escape from these problems is art. In this artwork the following can be seen: A pallet Paint Brushes Vincent Van Gogh himself A dark background In the middle of the artwork Vincent himself
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Church’s painting serves as an artistic response to war due to the depiction of the American flag on the sky. The ingenious use of the brush strokes to mimic the stripes of the flag is breathtaking. The Artist brings out the stripes of the flag with the thin clouds in the middle of a light blue sky. The painting also shows the stripes waving similar to those of a flag when blown by the wind (Burke 39). A further response to war can be recognized when Church includes a star in the large light-blue
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Why is there a tree in the middle of bedroom? When working with the work of Gregory Crewdson‚ an American photographer who often depicts homes and neighborhoods‚ the world may never know for sure. Rick Moody makes a valid point in the essay preceding Crewdson’s Twilight photo essay: “And that’s why the twilight photographs we have before us both seem to be easy to interpret and very difficult at the same time. If you could figure a photograph out in three minutes and forty-five seconds‚ you wouldn’t
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held a weight in which he could only in all the states‚ and world at that. The man was an astonishing‚ innate burglar‚ like a mouse through a pin hole. In his in New York he held some of the world’s most treasured items‚ such as: Picasso pieces‚ Starry Night‚ and King David. He returned home‚ and that’s where our story takes place. As he went home in the darkest corners and passed squalid huts‚ he wondered what he’d do next. As the burglar returned home he looked over his prizes and mumbled‚ "A
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Starry Nights Most people know Vincent Willem van Gogh‚ a Post-Impressionist painter in the 1800s‚ as the maker of The Starry Night. Fewer people‚ however‚ are aware that van Gogh first created The Starry Night Over the Rhone‚ which he painted during a happier period of his life. While both pieces employ the same style and portray a similar scene‚ the feelings evoked are entirely different. Despite the differences in mood‚ one cannot argue that van Gogh did not prove that “putting little white dots
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A Critique of Starry Night and Vincent’s Chair One of these Post-Impressionists was the Dutch artist‚ Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh believed that art was a form of expression. Painting was an emotional and spiritual experience for him. He painted not only how he interpreted his surroundings‚ but his sensations and feelings on his subjects. One of his most famous paintings‚ Starry Night‚ is a perfect representation of this Post-Impressionistic style of painting. With its swirling colors and
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1853 and died in France on July 29‚ 1890 from a self-inflicted gunshot. Van Gogh was influenced by color and light‚ and Japanese art. He was very passionate about works he would argue with other artist about their works. The artwork I chose is the Starry Night Over the Rhone‚ because it is based on the water with lights and stars in the background. This piece of
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Norris Freeman Art Appreciation Professor Gadson 20 February 2013 Critical Analysis: Starry Night Over the Rhone Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch artist from the mid 1800’s who was considered to have created approximately 2000 artworks. Growing up‚ he was classified to be highly emotional and having low self-esteem. Within those depressed emotions‚ it helped him pioneer the path of expressionism in his art pieces. But as he got more into him artwork he came more mature with his artwork and caused
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Sarah Cox Analysis of Two Visuals Sept. 23‚ 2012 English 112-95 The focus of 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
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