The Starry Night By Salvador Dali

There are several differences between Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Salvador Dali’s Summer Night, which include biography, Style, influences and paintings sold. The First difference between Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night and Salvador Dali’s Summer Night is biography. Biography means early life of the artist, career changes and when they became artists. Vincent Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Holland. Van Gogh was a child of a priest, brought up in a religious and refined environment

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

parts are solid concrete. The museum includes some of arts biggest names including, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, and Vincent Van Gogh. There seemed to be no specific theme to this museum due to the various amounts of artworks and artist, however if it could be categorized, the theme would be modern art. The painting I found most interesting is “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. The “Starry Night” is an oil painting on canvas. It was painted in June, 1889, a year before Vincent

a sense of serenity. Compared to other Impressionist paintings, Starry Night is somehow different: van Gogh used very expressive color and distorted form to give the viewers a very bright picture. Van Gogh wrote a letter to his brother to point out that compared to other Impressionist artists of that time, he utilized “exaggeration in terms of composition.” He uses techniques such as surrealism to draw those swirls. In Starry Night the landscape seems to be a way to convey the artist’s emotion. I

The night sky was fresh and starry. The wind held fresh. At midnight, when the boat was logging six and a half knots in a gentle sea. She remained on deck enjoying a juicy Mediterranean orange, before retiring to her berth. The next day, the skipper and Marci chatted. “So, will we be stopping first in Cadaqués?" He grinned and said, “Yes. I've reserved a birth in the port, there,” “I used to be fascinated with painters, so I hoped to spend, maybe a day there. They say Salvador Dali built his

Periods and their Artists * Chapter 3 Egypt * Old Kingdom (2700-2190 BCE) * Imhotep – Stepped Pyramid of Djoser * Chapter 5 Ancient Greece * Archaic (600-480 BCE) * Andokides Painter –Achilles and Ajax * Ergotimos –[and Kleitius] Fracois Vase * Euphronios –Death of Sarpedon * Exekias –Achilles and Ajax; Suicide of Ajax; Dionysis in a Boat * Polykleitos –Doryphoros * Classical (480-320 BCE) * Kalikrates