Starry Night By Van Gogh

In art, there are qualities that speak louder than words. It expresses many different messages and emotions and each person has an experience different from the next. In this paper, I will be discussing two artworks I encountered. The piece is a good example of how people can encounter different experiences in one piece. I attended the Orlando Museum of Art a while back with family and overall enjoyed my experience. On my visit, I found the museum quite impressive and felt a deep connection with specific pieces.

The life span of 37 years saw Vincent Willem van Gogh (Vincent) in creating beautiful works he dearly loved. Painting was an avenue, which allowed him to express his inner thoughts or vent his struggles. My decision to research on Vincent’s painting, Starry Night (1889) came with the inspiration from Don Mclean’s Song, Starry Starry Night where his lyrics spoke about Vincent’s life that further intrigued me in writing this paper.

For this essay, I chose to compare and contrast Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” with Marc Chagall’s “I and the Village”. The two pieces are lovely and most interesting to evaluate in relationship to one another. I personally love both artists and upon closely examining these famous pieces, I have noticed how similar yet different these works of art are.

Art History is the study of objects of art in their historical development and stylistic contexts. The history of art, we feel, can sometimes be confused with art criticism. However, Art History is concerned with finding the value of the artistic piece in respect with others in the same category of art or movement, and art criticism is more of an evaluation of art. The art examined best represents the culture during the time period, visions the artist imagined, and history behind an event. It also represents society in a specific area, beliefs the people may have, writing that tells a story, the natural world and environment, conflict between people and areas, and the human body. With these representations, artwork overall represents the life in which we live (d). Each piece has its own genre, design, format and style to it. This makes each piece extremely different, yet pleasing to the eye. They also vary between paintings, sculptures and architecture. These different types also make a variety of artwork to be seen by all people. The art pieces that I chose, Jar, Bottle and Glass by Juan Gris, The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dalí, and Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh, seemed interesting to me and I believe to best represent the context in which they were created, along with the major artistic movements of the time. I went on to research them more thoroughly to better understand the history behind them,

Upon entering the museum I was bombarded by this 12 x 45 ft. architectural painting. Almost resembling the museum building itself. With sharp horizontal and verticals lines, this multi colored piece reminded me of our last piece from project 8. Using a variety of colors with no obvious correlation, the clash of colors instantly made me reflect on how I could improve future and previous projects alike. The amount of straight lines in different lengths and widths, also reminded me of our piece from project 1. With no curves and lines going every which way, its amazing how a piece made entirely of lines with no figures could be so captivating.

Romanticism and The post impressionism era are two major periods on the time line of art history. Different forms of art including paintings, music, and architecture showed tremendous growth, and ended up making history. This essay compares and contrasts pieces of work such as Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night and Joseph Mallord William Turner’s The Slave Ship. These two pieces both represent their own individual time periods, yet have similar characteristics. Both of these paintings have a way of uncovering a story without using a single word.

There were many paintings in the museum which caught my attraction. One of the painting I

Coming into this Art Appreciation class, I knew very little about who Vincent Van Gogh was as an artist, and as a person. I feel I’ve learned a great deal about him after just a few short classes, especially after listening to the heartfelt song written to him by Don Mclean, titled Vincent. I now realize that the struggles Vincent experienced from his mental disorders were communicated through his many paintings, and there’s much more to the artwork than the painting itself, of which I already find very impressive. I think Don Mclean does a phenomenal job at capturing these feelings in his song. Even though I’m already a fan of his music, Vincent really moved me on more of an emotional level.

The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art trip was amazing, I have the pleasure of seeing numerous art work that I have heard about. But going there give me a real taste of the struggle as well as the accomplishment of these artists like Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Fernand Leger and so much more. These paintings were the expression of the free liberty of their imagination where the artist did feel have the freedom to portrait anything that he was please to. But the two ones that attract my attention were from the same artist Vincent Van Gogh; these painting were really different from what you could have actually seeing from the reality. The starry night painting portrait the raise of the sun on a sleeping village,

Throughout ancient period, there have been plenty of pieces of art that are appalling, shocking, and created quite an abstract reaction, yet they are great works of Art. In addition, there are pieces of Art sculpture with quality in which immediate impression you have upon seeing, hearing, and touching will reflect emotional response within you. This takes place before your instinct recognizes the content of the work and starts to work out meanings and messages.

No, I was unable to readily understand or identify the theme of the art work in Amanda’s collection. At first I was able to see a theme with the Representational art pieces The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh and the Trolley by Robert Frank. The next three pieces of art doesn’t follow the same theme the Free Stamp by Claes Oldenburg, and New Shelton Wet Dry by Jeff Koons are both sculptures which don't follow the same theme as the first two. The last art piece in the collection is The Crossing by Bill Viola which is a video and doesn't follow the theme as the others.

One of the most renowned paintings around the world, Starry Night, created by none other than Vincent van Gogh, inspired many artists to produce a form of artwork that somehow relates back to the actual painting itself. No matter what form of art, Starry Night is a major influence on the works of many. The painting, Starry Night, connects to “The Starry Night” by Anne Sexton and the song “Vincent” by Don McLean because of the imagery and tone being used in these pieces of art. In the painting, poem, and song, imagery is being expressed to show the importance of the contrasting colors.

It is important to see both close-up views, and faraway views to fully understand the world around us. Close-up views show us the detail that makes up the big picture. On the other hand, a faraway view shows us the whole thing, which may help us understand how things really are. For example, when you see the ‘Starry Night’ painting by Vincent Van Gogh, you see a moon with wind swirls around it, and at the bottom of the painting you see a small city. But if you look at the little detail under a magnifying glass, you see a whole new meaning to ‘detail’. In it you see each individual brush stroke, which faraway, just looks like swirls of color. Also, you see all the different colors put into let's say, the moon, and the waves. So in many

In 1889 Vincent van Gogh painted 'The Starry Night' from his room in an asylum. Most artists paintings have something to do with their lives. This painting has a lot of different brush textures with a lot of little details. It looks like a calm quiet night by the tone of the colors, but somewhere there is something going on, hence the flames. By just glancing at this it may seem like there is not much going on but by looking at some parts closely, it is noticeable. In the painting The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh there is a bunch of different textures added to the painting with details of a small town during the night time.

“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul,” said William Maugham, a British playwright from the 19th century. Vincent Van Gogh, an artist who is considered by many one of the most inspirational artists in history, was no stranger to depicting his struggles in life or feelings in his work. Van Gogh’s piece Starry Night, designed in the year 1889, shows this to be true in that it was the result of his experiences in an asylum that encouraged this piece. Despite this work has being so well known, many critics and observers of the piece have differing views on what he was trying to communicate through it. Two prime examples of this can be seen by the views expressed in the poems entitled, “Vincent” and “The Starry Night”, written by Don McClean and Anne Sexton, respectively. While the poem “Vincent”, has a depressing tone to it, “The Starry Night”, by Anne Sexton, depicts Starry Night as having a more lively mood, which more accurately represents that of the painting, by Vincent Van Gogh.