Buchanan and Van Gogh Vincent Van Gogh, born in 1853, was a post-impressionist painter. Van Gogh struggled with a mental illness and remained fairly unknown as an artist throughout his life. It was not until after he took his own life at the age of 37 that his works came to light. Up until 1886, Van Gogh was strictly self-taught. He eventually decided he needed some professional training, so he enrolled in the Fine Arts Academy in Antwerp. His earlier works are more somber, whereas his later works are more vibrant and full of motion because of his short brushstrokes. This is because when Van Gogh visited France he met some impressionists and started to try and imitate their techniques. He was unable to copy this style though and ended up developing a more unconventional style. The themes for his paintings were usually the outdoors and being free because Van Gogh was determined to give happiness by creating beauty. He typically used vibrant colors in his works and used short and wispy expressive lines to promote movement throughout …show more content…
She originally was pursuing a career in health education, but soon found her calling as an artist. Buchanan became an artist to express herself and the images, stories, and architecture of her African American childhood. At first her works were abstract and evoked urban ruins, but later she began depicting shacks and vernacular architecture in her paintings, which she is most common for. Before painting specific structures, she often photographed them to serve as a memory aid. Buchanan like Van Gogh also had a very expressionistic style and often used loosely applied vibrant colors in her work to create texture. She also like to use diagonal lines to create motion and excitement. Most of her works are a tribute to improvisational techniques, resilience, and tenacity (“Beverly Buchanan
Georgia O’Keeffe was born to the parents of Francis Calyxtus O’Keeffe and Ida (Totto) O’Keeffe on November 15, 1887 near Wisconsin. Georgia was the second oldest child and by the age of ten she knew she wanted to become an artist someday. Her first aspiration was doing abstracts. She was selective about what she painted, but often times she would paint to please others and not herself. Her paintings were thought of as sexual paintings because of the way they were drawn and painted in which she would say is one’s own opinion. Georgia O’Keeffe was best known for her flower canvas and southwestern landscapes. Her husband who is a famous photographer by the name of Alfred Stieglitz used to paint nice portraits of her. She was very fond of him, they both liked what each other did as far as how they were making ends meet, and he just didn’t want her to sell any of her paintings. He would often times tell people “No” so they wouldn’t buy any of her paintings because he wanted them all to himself. She had an interest in nature and used bright colors in her paintings.
In my research / readings of my chosen Artist, I found a lot of information about them that I will descibe individually. Based on the biography, It has been stated that Vincent “was a most well known post-impressionism Artist, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, he was highly emotional, lacked self-confidence and struggled with his identity and with direction.” (Templeton Reid) In the late 1800’s is when Vincent basically made the decision to become an Artist, in which he wanted to provide some type of Happiness because he was able to create beauty (Templeton Reid). As you review the art chosen above by Vincent Van Gogh, you will notice the colors used were dark i.e. Greens, Oranges, Blues, with splashes of yellow to create the sun, which led me to believe that maybe this was when he was in the dark place of his life. In the Van Gogh painting, I see big trees with the nice bright sun shining over the blue water, while looking at the trees it makes me feel safe because of the openness of the surrounding space, also the brightness of the sun and the coolness of the water makes me calm and relaxed, it’s just something about being in nature that gives me a sense of peace and direction, nothing to distract or disturb me.
In the 1920's there was a lot to be said of how people made their money, had parties, and the love for one another. This was the era when the financial gain was good, at lease for the upper-class population. Even though some people made a living illegally, some bought up bonds and saved them. There were two men that had several similarities in this day and time, but also had a lot of differences. These men were Jay Gatsby and Tom Buchanan.
Not many people would argue with the fact that the Buchanans and Jay Gatsby are very different. Although they are both rich, they had dissimilar means of coming about their wealth and the ways they choose to use it. Tom Buchanan was born rich and has always lived a lavish lifestyle. Gatsby, however, worked hard and earned his money, albeit illegally. Despite both of them being wealthy, they come from two completely separate worlds.
On November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin an amazing female artist came into the world. Georgia was a scholar at the Art institute of Chicago. She was the greatest painter in the 20th century. She was well known for her canvases and landscapes. This was inspired by her moving, and seeing many different types of scenery.
Van Gogh's use of line really gives depth and character to the piece. The first line that caught my eye was the line outlining the bottom of the bed. The strong stroke really gives you a sense of distance between the bottom of the frame and the floor. Had it been a thin line like those to depict the floorboards, it would look like the bed was sitting directly on the floor. His use of brush strokes and the thickness of them vary immensely in the painting to create depth. The strong strokes of
Cecily Brown is an active and acclaimed painter born in London in 1969. She received a Bachelors of Arts in Fine Arts from Slade School of Fine Art in 1993. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1995 and has been exhibited in institutions across the United States and Europe such as Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Tate Gallery, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Her work can be described as tension filled scenes that drift over the border of figuration and abstraction, which often results in her categorization as a “Neo-Expressionist” or a feminist Abstract Expressionism.
During his ‘Dutch’ period, Van Gogh’s subject matter was primarily focused on the lifestyle of the poor and the bible (Dubecky). In his ‘French’ period, Van Gogh had begun to shift his focus to drawing nude figures and portraits. Monet, conversely, liked to paint his subject matters in series. He would paint “the same subject at different times of the day in different lights” (Brown 1536). Some series that he painted included water lilies, bridges, and haystacks. Something that Van Gogh and Monet both really took passion in is basing their art on their life experiences. They both painted their surroundings such as landscapes, seascapes, and people around them. Van Gogh would also draw still lifes of food and would paint paintings based on his emotions during his recovered bouts of mental illness.
On the other hand, Vincent van Gogh did not do any cubism work during his time as an artist, however, had more of an interest in drawing. Pablo Picasso had an interest in drawing too, but unlike his work, Vincent van Gogh’s drawings are appreciated without the need for bright colours, drawings such as his depiction of figures, light and landscape. Van Gogh drew using a lot of different media, such as chalks, red pen and charcoal, although he often mixed mediums as well when it came to drawing. He drew on not just paper, but a variety of paper types, and materials. However, Van Gogh’s methods of ‘drawing’ are very different to Pablo Picasso’s.
Throughout their lives, both Monroe and van Gogh have been tormented by mental illness, however, have turned out to be among the most influential in their fields. van Gogh was known to have depressive episodes, anxiety, and symptoms of bipolar disorder, which ultimately led him to take his life in 1890. Similarly, Monroe was diagnosed to be a “borderline paranoid schizophrenic.” This diagnosis is not used anymore, however, and is now known as borderline personality disorder. Her family also had a long history BPD (borderline personality disorder) and schizophrenia.
In his work, many interpreters noted that it was his experience in life that motivated him into painting. Van Background and Influence on Painting Van was born in 1853 in Groot-Zundert in Southern Netherlands, which was a predominantly catholic; he grew up with a striking attraction of painting and beauty. He was the son of Theodorus Gogh, a minister at the Dutch reformed church. He took his grandfather's name Vincent, whose work as an artist had been largely sculptor. As a young boy, he was a serious, thoughtful and silent, this astonished many children who grew together.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853, in Zundert, The Netherlands. Van Gogh spent his teenage year’s working for a firm of art dealers; however, he did not embark upon his art career until 1880. Originally, he worked only with dark and gloomy colors, until he came across the art movements developed in Paris known as, Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism (Meier-Graefe 4). Van Gogh than included their brighter colors and unique style of painting into his very own creations. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life (Meier-Graefe 10). However, most of his best-known works were produced in his last
Van Gogh achieved the mood of sadness depression and despair in his piece of art through lines. The use of lines in his piece of art represents depression, sadness or dark times. By how the artist created his main characters-prisoners. Van Gogh created them all curved and created their poses look despair and doomed. Besides poses the artist created some of the faces of prisoners. Their facial expressions look tired of jail and their countless
The one close relationship Van Gogh had with his siblings was with his brother Theo who supported him not only emotionally but financially. (Letters to Theo from Van Gogh are big parts in understanding Van Gogh’s life and the troubles he faced. published in 1959.) Van Gogh was largely self-taught as an artist, although he received help from his cousin, Mauve. His first works were heavily painted, mud-colored and clumsy attempts to represent the life of the poor (e.g. Potato-Eaters, 1885, Amsterdam), influenced by one of his artistic heroes, Millet. He moved to Paris in 1886, living with his devoted brother, Theo, who as a dealer introduced him to artists like Gauguin, Pissarro, Seurat and Toulouse-Lautrec. In Paris, he discovered color as well as the divisionist ideas which helped to create the distinctive dashed brushstrokes of his later work (e.g. Pere Tanguy, 1887, Paris). He moved to Arles, in the south of France, in 1888, hoping to establish an artists' colony there, and was immediately struck by the hot reds and yellows of the Mediterranean, which he increasingly used symbolically to represent his own moods (e.g. Sunflowers, 1888, London, National Gallery). He was joined briefly by Gauguin in October 1888, and managed in some works to combine his own ideas with the latter's Synthetism (e.g. The Sower, 1888, Amsterdam), but the visit was not a success. A final argument led to the infamous episode in which Van Gogh mutilated
Van Gogh was a Post Impressionist artist who painted expressively to portray emotions subjectively, like Gauguin, rather then