Vincent Van Gogh was an artist who self-taught himself to paint with emotion. He was a troubled person who was a skilled painter that used his emotions to battle his depression. He was famed for his technique and style with the brush strokes that used emotion and feelings to move his art work. He produced at least 2‚000 works of art in his 10-year career. However‚ Van Gogh sold one painting only in his lifetime and he did not become successful until his passing on. Van Gogh was inspired by the work
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Stated by Vincent Van Gogh‚ the quote “Art is to console those who are broken by life” is applicable to people who self-express through creativity. When suffering‚ a person’s mind is a cage of raw emotion‚ holding each dark thought hostage. People implode very easily‚ and feelings have a way of capturing people and can gnaw at their insides incessantly. However‚ creativity and self-expression through some form of art can be truly cathartic for those who need it. Putting emotion in the words of a
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Vincent van Gogh is one of the most important figures in art history. His works are recognized all across the world for their bright colors and his extraordinary style of painting. Vincent based his art off of his life which was filled with heartbreak‚ childhood troubles and mental disabilities. He lived a rough life of 37 years full of mental and physical health conditions. These conditions were not his only problem. He had many problems finding love‚ which he never did and he had problems growing
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THE NIGHT CAFÉ BY: VINCENT VAN GOGH AS A POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER‚ AND ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ASTIST OF ALL TIME VINCENT VAN GOGH has became an icon. Between November 1881 and July 1890 he painted almost 900 paintings. The Night Café in the place Lamartine in Arles 1888 (fig 2-47). This piece was him telling the world that this place is where one “can ruin oneself”. He tried to express it as it being a place where the atmosphere was of loneliness. The striking‚ bold‚ intense colors‚ the empathic
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The suicide note of Vincent Willem van Gogh “My dear brother‚ Thanks for your kind letter and for the 50-fr note in contained. There are many things I should like to write you about but I feel it useless. I hope you have found those worthy gentlemen favorably disposed towards you. Your reasurring me as to the peacefuless of your household was hardly worth the trouble‚ I think having seen the weal and woe of it myself. And I quite agree with you that rearing boy on the fourth floor is hell
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With only 13 years between the births of the two artists‚ we could say that Claude Monet and Vincent Van Gogh were born in the same period. They may have been born quite close together but both men discovered art was their vocations almost 20 years apart‚ which may have been why they are such different artists. Monet had a head start on Van Gogh as he was introduced to art at a very young age. Monet also had a mentor who taught him the tricks of the trade and pushed him from caricatures to landscape
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Witt and Vincent van Gogh are both talented painters from the Netherlands. De Witt‚ whose life spanned through much of the seventeenth century‚ lived through the Dutch Golden Age. This was a time of growth for all of the Netherlands‚ and in the arts‚ realism was heavily practiced. His paintings in particular were also quite influenced by the Protestant Reformation‚ where a backlash on artwork in churches – one of his most popular subject matters – left many whitewashed and bare. Van Gogh lived through
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Pablo Picasso did many great artwork paintings. One of the famous paintings was Starry Night by Van Gogh. The artwork consists of landscape night view of the sky. Stars‚ lights‚ mountains‚ places‚ regions‚ and the moon. The moon shined as a baking white powder and the stars twinkle in the sky. Also the lights illuminate the sky view of the town. The sky has a rhythm of wave’s direction going towards the moonlight. The archirture church has pointy steel it points in the steep hill mountainside. The
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painting and 1100 drawings. Some of his paintings today are the most expensive: Irises was sold for $53.9 Million and Portrait of Doctor Gachet was sold for $82.5 Million. Vincent Van Gogh suffered depression‚ and in 1889 was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. His depression worsened over time and on July 27‚ 1890 at the age of 37 Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. He died two days later. His last words were “the sadness will last
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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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