The Starry Night painted by Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most recognizable pieces of art ever painted. If you were to go around asking random people to identify a famous painter, you may hear the name of the Dutch artist more often than most others. Van Gogh is most famous for his landscape painting, "Starry Night" but to fully understand his works, you must know Van Gogh 's past, as his upbringing and life greatly influenced his art. On March 30, 1853 a woman named Cornelia Carbentus gave birth to a baby boy in Groot-Zundert, Holland. Vincent Van Gogh 's father belonged to the Protestant church and it was believed that Vincent would go on to follow in his father 's footsteps by being heavily involved in the evangelist movement, …show more content…
The height of the piece is 73.70 (cm) with a length of 92.10 (cm). The subject of the piece was landscape. The painting was done on an oil medium and was done on a canvas. It shows characteristics of post-impressionism. Post-Impressionism emphasizes structure and order as well as the use of vibrant colors to bring paintings to life. Post impressionist such as Vincent Van Gogh used the interrelationship between color and shape to illustrate the world as he saw it. The night as illustrated by Van Gogh in "a Starry Night" is filled with clouds that take the shape of like wind whirling, stars shining and a beautiful moon in the top right corner overlooking green pastures. Van Gogh made it so the whirling skies are the tour guide to the viewers eyes as you follow the whirls until you see the painting as a whole; this technique ensures that the painting is fluent with the eyes. Van Gogh used colors such as white and yellow to create the whirling effects that you see in the sky when looking at the painting. He used various types of blues and greens to show the reflection of the moon. The buildings at the center of the painting are the colors yellow, orange, and green, to bring attention to other color tones since the painting is dominated by
Vincent Van Gogh is one of the world’s greatest and most well-known artists, but when he was alive he considered himself to be a complete failure. It was not until after he died that Van Gogh’s paintings received the recognition they deserved. Today he is thought to be the second best Dutch artist, after Rembrandt. Born in 1853, he was one of the biggest artistic influences of the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh created a new era of art, he learned to use art to escape his mental illness, and he still continues to inspire artists over 100 years later.
This Starry night painting was created on a medium sized canvas, being 2′ 5″ x 3′ 0″. This oil painting is dominated by a moon and a star-filled night sky. This part of the artwork takes up three-quarters of the picture and appears turbulent, even distressed, with intense swirling patterns that seem to roll across the surface like waves. It is filled with bright orbs, including the crescent moon to the far right, and Venus, the morning star, to the left of center—surrounded by many circles of bright white and yellow light.
It is important to keep in mind that Van Gogh was born exactly one year after his brother, also named Vincent, was stillborn (“Vincent Willem”). This odd situation most certainly led to some of Van Gogh’s mishaps later in his life. Also, Van Gogh’s own mother was an artist, yet she never encouraged art in her children, nor did her or her husband support Van Gogh when he decided to study and practice creative thinking (“Vincent Willem”). Van Gogh’s father was a minister, and he and his siblings grew up in a very religious home, which led to some of Van Gogh’s life choices and also to some of his misfortunes along the way (The Van Gogh Gallery).
Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the rectory of Zundert in Barbant (Burra). His father was a soft-spoken Dutch clergyman. The only thing Van Gogh got from his father, was the desire to be involved in the family church. Even at an early age, Vincent showed artistic talent but neither he nor his parents imagined that painting would take him where it did later in life. One of his first jobs came at the age of sixteen, as an art dealer’s assistant. He went to work for Goupil and Company, an art gallery where an uncle had been working for some time. Three of his father’s brothers were art dealers, and he was christened after the most distinguished of his uncles, who was manager of the Hague branch of the famous Goupil Galleries (Meier-Graefe). His parents were poor, so his rich uncle offered to take him ...
Vincent was an influential post-Impressionist painter born in 1853, Netherlands. With Theo van Gogh’s association, Vincent met reputable Impressionist painters such as Émile Henri Bernard and Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin. Impressionism served as a platform for Vincent in developing his own style . He explored with colours, a stark contrast from his usual dark and sombre style. The influence of Japonisme charmed Vincent into residing in Arles where he began painting landscapes. Thereafter, Vincent voluntarily checked into Saint-Rémy sanatorium where his works reflected strong colours and lights of the countryside around him. His manic depression and epileptic condition, led to his suicide on July 27th 1890.
Vincent Van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 in the small village of Groot-Zundert, Holland, to Theodorus Van Gogh and Anna Cornelia. He had a normal childhood and was in no way distinguished from his peers by any uncommon character traits. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Goupil & Cie, art dealers from Paris with a branch established in Hague by his uncle Vincent.
Vincent van Gogh lived from 1853 to 1890 and is arguably the most famous painter of the post-impressionism era of art. His painting style was often
Overall, by analyzing The Starry Night I saw that it is more than just a simple painting
The paining ‘Starry night’ was made when Van Gogh was in a mental asylum after he had an episode that resulted in him cutting of his own ear. The painting depicts the view from his asylum room, which Bennett could incorporate into his feeling of being trapped in a society that doesn’t accept him.
31-40), there is a vast difference between his piece and Georges Seurat’s. Instead of using dots to create the effect for his piece, Van Gogh primarily uses small lined brush strokes heavy with paint giving a palpable appearance. Most visible is the predominant use of the color blue, ranging in different levels of intensity from a color so deep it appears to almost be black to the palest of blues, bordering on being white. Among these many shades of blues, yellow, white, black and a reddish brown are also visible. To balance the extravagant whirling skyscape located above the small village, Van Gogh includes in the foreground a large, gnarled looking tree, opposite side of the canvas to the imposing, glowing moon. Motion is noticeable within the sky, wherein the clouds and stars carry similar appearance to large waves. As though mimicking the movement from above, the mountains below follow along similar curvature as the clouds and stars, making it challenging for the viewer to determine where precisely the sky starts and the earth
Vincent Van Gogh never gave up his style and insight in his early work compared to his later work. I will discuss the comparison of the Potato Eaters and Starry Night and even though there are obvious differences, the core of his passion and eccentricities can be seen.
Vincent Van Gogh’s piece titled Starry Night, represents the artist’s insanity and isolation from the outside world. Van Gogh painted the view that was seen from the room, mixed with the emotions he felt inside. Starry Night is an oil painting on canvas and is two dimensional. The painting is found in the Museum of Modern Art located in New York. The variety of elements and principles of art, help to bring the painting to life, and help viewers understand what the art could represent.
Although these paintings are landscapes, their themes are quite different. Van Gogh’s starry night is a more peaceful quiet depiction of the town below. View of Toledo is a more ominous painting that depicts a town below an angry stormy
Vincent Van Gogh’s style is defined by the profuse brush strokes that you see in all his paintings. These brush strokes highlight the primary subject of a majority of his paintings which is nature. The texture in Starry Night over the Rhone is what gives the artwork an organic feeling. Vincent Van Gogh did an excellent job with handling the medium. Since the medium is canvas, it’s very heavily woven and compact. He does a superb job with utilizing thick brush strokes that allow the artwork to really stand out. The surface is not smooth, but rather textured like a light-sand paper. The texture is already rough due to the canvas medium; however these heavy brush strokes define the texture even more, making the piece of art really co...
In this essay will be talking about and comparing between the traditional painting Starry night by Vincent Van Gogh and the digital movie poster for Midnight in Paris designed by the company Cardinal Communications USA. Starry Night is an artwork that was painted in 1889 in an asylum at Saint-Remy-de-Provience, France while the Midnight in Paris poster is digitally made somewhere in the USA by someone in that company sometime in 2010. While both these artworks are very different, they have some similarities.