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    Starry night

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    BY PICASSO WEEPING WOMAN Composition and Brushstrokes The weeping woman portrays a woman who is in deep despair. Throughout the painting‚ we are able to see quite a lot of sharp edges and contrasting colours. The woman’s black piercing eyes are wide-opened‚ her tears running down in clear drops‚ and she is biting a handkerchief which she grips tightly in her hands. Placed on the top of her head is a black‚ yellow and red hat with a blue flower on top. Her shattered image reminds us almost of a

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    expression seems to present to the viewer as well. The grayish paint strokes represented in the negative space outside van Gogh’s image sharply contrasts with the orange‚ yellow and reddish colors in the facial area and hat‚ which adds to the overall boldness and vibrancy of the painting. In addition‚ the space appears to be illusionistic‚ as the painter depicts an illusion (van Gogh himself) of the three-dimensional spatial world on a two-dimensional

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    Starry Night A mono-toned starry night with twisty‚ long lines and cracked short lines unexpectedly generates a wonderful sight. It states darkness in the artist’s soul. The artist of the painting is none other than Vincent Willem Van Gogh‚ who is a famous Dutch post-Impressionist painter. He drew the painting in an asylum at Saint-Remy‚ France‚ in 1889. He cut off his own ear‚ and then he was sent to the asylum‚ which was the reason that he created the Starry Night in an asylum. This masterpiece

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    Vincent van Gogh’s piece titled Starry Night Over the Rhone‚ piece of artwork was made during late September of 1888 in southern France. The painting of the Arles at nighttime was painted at the banks of the river which was only a few blocks away from the house on the Place Lamartine where Van Gogh was currently renting his yellow house in Arles.. Van Gogh had went through dark times this piece of art work was actually created at some of his happier moments in life. Before admitting his self into

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    In the second half of June‚ Van Gogh decided to put his skills to the test. Not only did he work on size 30 canvases‚ but he set out to prove himself in the genre he considered superior to all others and produce a figure piece of his own invention. The outcome of his first‚ rather tentative attempt was ’The Sower’‚ now in Otterlo‚ which he painted around 17 June. ’The Sower’ and‚ later‚ ’The Night Café’ were among the few ’attempts at composite paintings’ he ever made‚ as he wrote subsequently.

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    Similarities FAS/202 The Scream by Edvard Munch was painted in Norway in 1893 and is a product of the Expressionism period. This piece measures 3’x 2’5” and was created using oil paint on canvas. Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh measures 2’5” x 3’ and was painted in France in 1889 using oil paint on canvas. This work is from the Post-Impressionism period. Both of these paintings have techniques that are individual to their periods‚ but they have similarities among them

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    A brief Summary: In this last section‚ I explore the memories and the past themes through different personal works. I create an original poem‚ and talk about how I made it‚ choose a situation in "The Kite Runner" and gave my response to it‚ talk about some present day current events and the past about art The haunting memories– written by Tony Minh Walking down memory lane. To see a haunting memory that you cannot change. The haunting memories are taunting and wanting you to plunge into a deep

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    Wormwood In the book The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis‚ one of the main character’s name is Wormwood. This character is a demon and its name assumably has a great deal to do with how this character interacts without the other characters throughout the story. The term “wormwood” is a plant that can be grown and dried out to use. It is also referenced to in the Bible when describing immoral people or perversion. Wormwood is defined as something grievous‚ bitter‚ or extremely unpleasant.

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    a glimpse of the object that is being portrayed. Impressionist artists use a lot of color. Most impressionist paintings are outdoors. The pictures are usually very bright and vibrant. 2) Claude Monet‚ Vincent Van Gogh and Alfred Sisley. 3) My favourite impressionist artist is Vincent Van Gogh because I really like the things he paints‚ and his ability to blend colors. He painted a lot of paintings of the water and plants. 4) This is an interesting site on impressionist water colours: http://emptyeasel

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    beholder‚ and how each person indiviually takes the artwork in. In this essay I will be analysing three pieces of art work and why they fit into the category simply coined art for arts sake. The first of the three will be The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh‚ and how each piece of art can be interpted completely different from one person to the other. The second piece will be the one that I mentioned eariler‚ Vir Heroicus Sublimis‚ by Barnett Newman‚ and why this piece of art is so important to the

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