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 audio art. I felt saddened that such a talented
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Vincent Van Gogh The Bold Painter The beautiful painting‚ Starry Night is the most popular‚ well known‚ and one of my favorite paintings of Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890). Some of the other famous paintings of his are Sunflowers‚ Irises‚ and The Potato Eaters. Van Gogh had always said; “There are two ways of thinking about painting‚ how not to do it and how to do it: how to do it - with much drawing and little colour; how not to do it - with much colour and little drawing.”(http://www.vangoghgallery
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down an aircraft in aerial combat. Lieut. Harvey-Kelly had spotted a German Taube below him ‚he dove on the lone craft armed only with a pistol. The art of aerial combat was born ‚ along with came birth to the Ace ‚ a premiere calliber of pilot who stood above the rest. Two of history’s most regonized aces from the first world war‚ are Manfred von Richthofen of Germany and Billy Bishop of Canada. Two very distinguished pilots and debated to be the worlds best but on April 30th 1917. To of the world
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her portrait to her specific and exact needs. Compared with Madame Recamier is the statue of Pauline Borghese as Venus by Canova‚ the technique used over artworks in this period in time‚ which emphasized highly finished‚ refined and polished works of art. Unlike the painting of Madame Recamier the statue of Pauline Borghese was finished. It was highly polished with wax which highlighted the marbles shiny surface and its quality. The highly polished surface portrays the style that was neoclassicism.
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through the Yale Art Gallery. While looking through the museum I stumbled upon a painting that really caught my eye like no other painting did. This specific oil painting was called "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
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Vincent Van Gogh: Woe is Me During the last twenty years of the nineteenth century a new form of artistic painting formed. Postimpressionism was a form of art where the artist was highly individual and expressive. Some of the most creative painters in history helped to make the style a success. Paul Gauguin and Paul Cezanne are two of the most creative and popular painters among the postimpressionists‚ but not the master. The master of the postimpressionist movement was Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent
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Allanah Rubi-Mooney TA Jaime Pagana ART-HIST 110 14 March 2014 The Tattered Sonata: A New Genre of Music Genre paintings have always made bold statements regarding the “everyday life” of whichever time period they were completed in. Scenes could range from parties in a domestic setting in France‚ to bitterly realistic views of street and slum life during the Gilded Age in the United States. In Alfred Kappes’ very real depiction of this time‚ Tattered and Torn was completed in 1886 and sheds light
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Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter‚ whose work represents the archetype of expressionism‚ the idea of emotional spontaneity in painting. Van Gogh was born March 30‚ 1853‚ in Groot-Zundert‚ son of a Dutch Protestant pastor. Van Gogh’s birth came one year to the day after his mother gave birth to a first‚ stillborn child; also named Vincent. There has been much speculation about Vincent van Gogh suffering later psychological trauma as a result of being a "replacement child" and
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Office Art Memo Jeffrey D Covington Hum 112 – World Cultures II Dr. Byron Wess Strayer University August 25th‚ 2013 Abstract In this paper I will be writing a memorandum to my “boss” about various pieces of art (s)he wants me to pick out to decorate the new corporate offices. I will be identifying three examples of 19th century Impressionist painting or sculpture and three Post-Impressionist works. In this memo I will explain how the six pieces of art fall into these two styles. Also I will
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The Starry Night is a post impressionist painting by Vincent Van Gogh that was created not long after he arrived at asylum in Saint Remy France in 1889. This is oil on canvas that measures 73.70” X 92.10”. This work is currently owned and housed by the Museum of Modern Art‚ which is located in New York City‚ New York. The work depicts the pre-dawn view from his room at the Saint Remy Lunatic Asylum. It features a bright‚ turbulent night sky‚ which is framed in the foreground by a small village
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