Inspired By Van Gogh

The flowers face many angles and are all different, most have contrasting shades of green leaves surrounding the petals and varying stem widths and lengths. This creates interest throughout the painting. To complement the bright yellow flower petals, Van Gogh has detailed a baby blue background with small, vertical and horizontal brush strokes. This contrasts well with the yellow flowers and helps to separate them from the yellow foreground. Also, to break all the yellow sections, he has cleverly used a lighted yellow tint on the bottom half of the vase, rather than shades, which he has used to outline the petals of the flowers. In doing this and by also adding light to the front petals and vase, Van Gogh has added a third dimension to his painting. Like Olley, Van Gogh has painted this artwork in warm colours to create a joyful and uplifting artwork to look at.

Flowers In a Vase was a painting that Ruysch painted after 1700. This composition balances a swirl of twisting blossoms along a diagonal axis (Chadwick 138). The variety of blooms and colors, and the painter’s subtle touch and impeccable surface treatment distinguish her work (Chadwick 138). Flowers lavishly spill out of the vase, filling the entire picture space. Some are in full bloom, others droop and wilt, as leaves and curving stems entwine throughout (Robinson). The lighting in this painting falls on the flowers from the bottoms left to top right, leaving the closed peonies at the edge in shadow. Complementary colors create harmony, as warm yellows and rose balance cool blues and greens. Against the dark background, her sophisticated palette creates a flawless sense of depth and three-dimensionality (Wieseman). And looking more closely, the viewer and depict several insects in the painting- caterpillars, ants, and a grasshopper are

This painting shows around five colors being used; red, green gold, pink and white. These colors mean so much in every day life. The form shows how lines play a big role in the body as they're symmetric all around the torso, but when connected to the head it seems to turn into scribbles that look like flowers

This oil painting displays great contrast between the lush, intense reds and pinks of the flower arrangement and the shadowy, dark background. There is almost no definite setting, as the background is not visible to the viewer, with the exceptions of the drapery hidden in the shadows and the sculpted pedestal that the flowers sit upon. It is

3. Color- Van Gogh's use of color in this painting is very simple since he mainly used dark cool colors such as dark blue, dark green, black, along with a hint of light blue, a couple or orange and red dashes, and some white. He also used yellow which out of all

After I spent most of the afternoon perusing the paintings in the online galleries, I finally selected an oil on canvas painting titled Flowers in a Vase. The artist is Rachel Ruysch and it is displayed at The National Gallery in London. There are many things that I find interesting about this particular piece, aside from its obvious beauty. The most prominent is being painted by a woman.

The overwhelming night sky takes up most of the background. Van Gogh painted the sky with overlapping, rapid, and curving strokes that created a great dynamic, swirling motion. It's the night sky that seems to function as the life force, providing joie de vivre (joy of life) to this masterpiece. Galaxies are in motion and the stars could very well plunge into this sleepy town at any moment. The celestial imagery possesses grandeur of emotional intensity portrayed thru a variety of strokes and colors, all merging together to form a "corkscrew" in the

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most recognized artists in the world. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was born into a family of six children in which his father was a pastor and his mother was an artist. He was named after his stillborn brother who died exactly one year before he was born.

Other Influences on Vincent Van Gogh’s Works As it was mentioned moving to Paris in 1886 had a great impact on Van Gogh’s works. Impressionism and post-impressionism also played a significant role in forming his unique style with usage of vibrant and vivid colors. Japanese printworks are also important to mention as Van Gogh adopt some of their aspects and elements which appeared in his works (Vieira et al. 119). Moreover, there were other artists and painters who played a vital role in shaping Van Gogh’s style. Among them, there are Pissarro, Bernard, and Gauguin, among others.

Lesson: Vincent van Gogh- Complimentary Colors Samples (The idea for this lesson was modified Shelly Pruitt’s art lesson Complimentary Color Leaves found on her blog “Drip Drip Splatter Splash”. This project was posted June 24, 2013 on dripdripsplattersplash.blogspot.com).

I think that your choice was a good one. In fact, it was one of my choices but you beat me to it. I appreciate your description of the painting. I also liked the fact that Van Gogh captured the night in such an image. He made it look brighter and cheerful than its usual dreary image. I enjoyed reading your post. Thank you for sharing!

!” In many cases individual artists make their own artwork. Michaelangelo Buonarroti did most of the painting. Vincent van Gogh painted all his own paintings, because as he wrote to his brother Teo, he valued the act of creation more than life itself. Eva Hesse made seventy sculptures during the few years of her life, even though she is very ill much of the time. She was driven to create work that seemed off balanced and expressed life’s absurdity and fundamental strangeness. Pieces lean against walls, spread across the floor, or hang on ceilings often made from materials that seem fragile or barely

Many artists uses experiences from their own lives to create their arts. This form of art which is called therapeutic or catharsis allows the artist to investigate their pain and create a path to healing their wounds. This practice was both used by artists Vincent van Gogh and Louise Bourgeois. Van Gogh who uses his artwork to (which are often seen in a colorful scene) expresses his emotional pain. During his lifetime, Van Gogh went through many love affairs and bouts of depression which he often cope with through his artwork. In comparison, Louise Bourgeois known as the founder of confessional art use the trauma of her early life experience to create abstract sculpture. This sculptures draws viewer to her parental issues and psychological

Poverty is considered one of the biggest issues in the world. Books, music, and art have strived to shine a light on it recently. Books write about how main characters struggle, steal, and suffer. In music, groups of musicians have been known to get together and sing a song for charities and to help others. Art has always had a political point of view and today we are going to discuss that. The Potato Eaters by Vincent Van Gogh highlights the struggles of living poor.

“Loving Vincent” was a vividly motion movie created by over one hundred artists that has master Van Gogh’s painting style. Each of the scene had Van Gogh’s famous paintings among with artists painting to help the movie move along perfectly with his work.. Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas. All of the painters did an amazing job at following the movement of Vincent’s painting and stay true about the choice of colors. The creator of the film had a deep personal level on Van Gogh and wanted to the film to be all in painting rather than be made on the computer. Some of Vincent’s painting was incorporated such as; Girl in White in the Woods, Lying Cow, A Girl in the Street, and many more. . You can tell that all of