Vincent Van Gogh And His Art

A person’s childhood could eventually lead them to either a success or failure. Two men, later to become widely known across the globe because of their success, have had situations that helped developed them during their childhoods. Two such men would be Frederick Douglass and Vincent Van Gogh. Both excerpts from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass and Vincent Van Gogh: Portrait of an Artist by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, the reader gets an insight into their childhoods. Frederick Douglass was born an American slave, and became an abolitionist. Vincent Van Gogh, lived a normal childhood in the Netherlands, and became a famous painter after death. The childhood of Frederick Douglass lead to his success while the childhood of Vincent Van Gogh did not lead to his success while he was still alive.

Vincent van Gogh is one of the world’s most well-known artists. He was the son of a pastor and was brought up in a religious atmosphere. He thought his true calling was to preach the gospel like his father. He became a preacher in a small coal mining town. This is when he starting becoming very interested in the people and things that surrounded him. He became an artist at the age of 27.

Vincent van Gogh battled with psychological and emotional problems beginning at a very young age in his life which eventually led to suicide at the age of 37. Exactly one year before he was born, his mother gave birth to a stillborn child with the same name. Growing up having to see his name and birthday on a headstone caused some real emotional distress is the young artist’s life. Van Gogh had his first mental breakdown after the woman he loved refused to marry him. Afterwards he devoted himself to God and dabbled in ministry for a little while until he refused to take the entrance exams into priesthood because he didn’t like the latin language, and forced to find a new occupation away from preaching. That is when he took up art as a profession. His brother, Theo, sponsored him as he was getting started.

There have been different art forms that have come and go over the course of time. Hence I will discuss, two significant movements like Post-impressionism and Pop art. Two important artists from these movements are, Vincent Van Gogh and Andy Warhol. There are many differences and very few similarities between these two movements and artists, although more differences. Van Gogh is one of the most captivating artists of post-impressionism. . Throughout his career Van Gogh has painted many works. One of those magnificent paintings is “Starry Night” by Vincent Van Gogh. In the other hand we will discuss one of the popular paintings “ Gold Marilyn” by Andy Warhol. Warhol is also the most famous of the Pop Artists and played a major role in making the art movement popular.

Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous painters of all time. His style was post-impressionism. He was a Dutch man, born in an averaged sized town called Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. The reason he became an artist, and the thing that influenced him the most to become an artist was actually his mother. His mother was interested in nature, she did a lot of drawing and watercolors and that really influenced her son heavily and got him into art. When he was fifteen years old, his family was really struggling with their finances. Because of this, he was forced to get a job and help them provide. It ended up that his uncle owned an art dealership, so he got a job there.

Visual opulence, creativity, inimitable vision, and a style that is highly influential are the many characteristics of an admired movement in art history, that being of the Post-Impressionism movement (1875-1892). This movement, which was a by-product of the Impressionism movement, is the bridging gap between the two movements known as Realism and Expressionism. Post-Impressionism takes on some of the stylistic characteristics of these movements; however, it does not contain the all too glossy visuals of Realism or the heavily fantastic visuals of Expressionism, rather it is the intermediary of these two poles. My paper will discuss why this link was absolutely essential to the history of art movements, and I will be specifically using the

Vincent van Gogh is now a well known artist even though he died way too soon before he could make more artwork. While he was alive he suffered from mental illnesses and lived a very poor life. He spent most of his time making artwork. It wasn’t until he died that he gained popularity for his artwork.

There were many great and famous artists in the world,, some of which weren’t famous until they were dead and the only thing that remained of them was the artwork, Like my artist Van Gogh. Van Gogh was considered a very dark artist. Most of his work was quite depressing to look at so people didn’t like his art until a later time when he started traveling more and started making bright pastel and colorful pieces. That was the first time he was noticed.

I do in fact think that this piece was a successful artwork for many reasons. First of all, it followed the principles of design perfectly as well as incorporated many elements of art quite well. Secondly, there were plenty of interesting forms and objects within the piece to capture one's attention quite quickly and keep one’s attention on the piece for at least a couple of minutes. Lastly, the piece was even featured in a full length biographical movie about the life of Vincent Van Gogh, so it was obviously important enough to be featured in front of moviegoers. In conclusion, this piece definitely is a successful artwork from my point of

Losing an individual who has endured and distinguished themselves has the same impinge on life as an eraser does. By using an eraser to expunge a component within a masterpiece, an element that indicated the integral contrivance of an artwork is lost. The aberration within the piece vividly disrupts the continuation and instead delineates an indistinguishable portrait. Pervasive deformities such as the Mona Lisa without her eminent smile, the Starry Night without the steeple of the church, and Van Gogh without his use of oil paints, are so anomalous that to a point they are beyond recognition. Similarly, as soon as someone passes away, normality changes and reconstructs itself antithetically.

1888- Vincent moves to Arles,France, to create an art school. Van Gogh paints the famous sunflower painting and starts suffering from mental problems. Van Gogh cuts off a portion of his ear and commits himself to a mental asylum in Saint Rémy.

Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in Zundert village. He was the eldest son and show no talent during his childhood. Van Gogh had intermittent education and had a bad luck as he failed in working as an art dealer, then as a preached, and even in his love he wasn’t lucky. So, he decided to become an artist with a financial aid from his brother Theo. It was obvious that he is charmed by the Japanese art. Therefore, he moved to Arles with the accompany of Paul Gauguin in the yellow house where he was suffering psychologically and cut off his left ear. He was entered in asylum and participated 6 of his artworks in an exhibition in Brussels. Yet, he shot himself in the chest and days later he died at age 37. During his whole life only one painting was sold which is the red vineyard (Vincent Van Gogh Biography, 2015).

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.

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 moved to Arles in 1888, where he wanted to start a colony of artists who would all live and create together (Department of European Paintings). This community did not actually come together because no one went to work with van Gogh. However, Vincent’s hero Paul Gauguin did visit and work with him. When van Gogh heard of this news, he became excited and optimistic. In preparation for Gauguin’s visit, he created a series of bright yellow sunflower paintings. It was his intention to decorate Gauguin’s room in the Yellow House which he had rented with the paintings (Sooke; Wiggins). The blue lines separating the different shades of yellow in the painting might be a reference to Gauguin’s work as this is similar to a technique he sometimes used (Sooke). Gauguin did stay and work with van Gogh for several months (Wiggins). He loved the paintings of sunflowers. These works impressed him and even asked Vincent if he could keep one (Van Gogh Museum). However, the two did not work well together, nor did they get along. Gauguin worked from his imagination and tried to convince van Gogh to paint this way too. However, van Gogh needed a reference to base his works off of and could not simply use his imagination. Van Gogh made paintings of sunflowers in vases in total, though three are copies of his own work (Wiggins). Of the four original paintings, one is in the Neue Pinakothek in Germany, the one featured here is from the National Gallery in London, one was destroyed in World