Essays on Van Gogh

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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium "'THE CENSUS AT BETHLEHEM'". Google Cultural Institute, https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/exhibit/zQKyGcrY3z1hKQ. The Census at Bethlehem (also known as The Numbering at Bethlehem) by Pieter Bruegel is a part of the collection of Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium as Bruegel was Flemish renaissance artist. The painting can be seen in great detail through Google Cultural Institute, which is very handy because, similarly to Bosch, Pieter Bruegel includes a lot of details and a diverse number of actions going on. Because of that the viewer may be looking at a painting for a long ...

Art is one of the most ancient aspects of history and there has been its evolvement over the years. Many of the artists in history use their art works having specific objectives and the main one being to express their thoughts. Art work varies widely but in our case we will look at painting works. We will not look at it in general terms but we will be specific and look at the movement that came up of post-impressionism and how Van Gogh and Gauguin used their artistic work as a reaction against the concerns that were raised by ...

The three impressionist paintings I have chosen include the works of Caillebotte, Monet and Conder. I chose these three artists as they are very different from one another in their styles and their use of color. I think that a variety in the office will give the office more life and leave an impression on visitors. Paris Street; Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte is one of my favorite impressionist period paintings. Caillebotte painted this is 1877. The painting depicts a rainy day in urban Paris. In the forefront of the painting is a man holding an umbrella with a ...

Introduction

Fauvism refers to all the artistic techniques employed during the early 20th century. These artistic techniques were characterized by free treatment of structure as well as vivid colors that resulted in a decorative and vibrant effect (Denvir, 1978). Fauvism artistic styles were first applied in Paris in the year 1905 at the Autumn Salon. After the exhibition of fauvist artwork, Les Fauves, who was an art critique named the style as Fauvism which meant wild animals. He argued that the technique used very strong colors that hindered the natural color portrayal of the object. Besides, he argued that these ...

Picasso lived in Barcelona and Paris in his adolescent period after being born in Malaga in 1881. He was recognized as a great talent and a genius at the Academy in Madrid and in 1904 he moved to Paris temporarily. His talent was fostered by his father who was also a painter of not much ability. Pablo Picasso became a painter because he was encouraged by his family to explore his artistic abilities. Picasso’s early life was unsettled as he moved through Europe. “His gradual transformation from adolescence to adult was manifested in change in his personal and ...

The essay discusses three famous artists, Louise Bourgeois, Andy Warhol and Vincent Van Gogh.

Louise Bourgeois The work of Louise Bourgeois is influenced by traumatic events from her childhood and manifested a feminist-inspired body art that carried a strong influence on other artists. It is the highly personal content in her artwork that relates to sexual desire and the body. Perhaps she sought a therapeutic process in her art and developed a highly personal visual language. One finds the use of archetypal imagery in her works based on the adoption of objects such as cages, spiders, medical tools, and spirals that symbolize the feminine psyche and psychological pain. Bourgeois juxtaposes her materials to ...

Vincent van Gogh was born as the son of a middle class family in 1853; his style of painting created a maelstrom of rejection, panic, and curiosity from the late 19th century public. The famous Van Gogh scholar named Zola previously stated that no other artist had ever exceeded Van Gogh; his immense popularity as a result of his insanely beautiful artworks made him a champion of the rejected artists who crafter genius masterpieces that are all timeless, hysterical, and eccentrically beautiful at the same time. (Naifeh and Smith Ch. 1, n.p.). Throughout history, Van Gogh is probably one ...

The goal of this essay is to provide artwork analysis of three contemporary paintings such as Whitney’s Cold Moon Dancer, Sheehan’s I Never Planned to Have You Here, and Dugas’ Wake. These three works of art exemplifies the influences of modernism due to the fact that artists explored different artistic styles in order to portray their subjects from a different perspective. From that point, the resulting paintings were brave, bolder, and revolutionary in a sense that these works broke the traditional art forms of either ‘humanizing’ or illustrating realistic and religious figures. For instance, Whitney’s Cold ...

Vincent van Gogh is a well renowned artist from his divse excellent paintings that he painted during the late 19th century. His works of Art have been appreciated throughout generations up to the current times; he painted different pictures ranging from the Starry Night, Starry Night over the Rhone, Sunflowers, The flowering Orchard among other works. His works have been applauded by many commentators across the globe. In this paper, I will critically describe the Starry Night over the Rhone painting painted in 1888.

Description of the Painting: the drawing is a landscape painting measuring 72.50 cm height, ...