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    Several scenes compose this film of Vincente Minnelli called Lust for Life. The action of these scenes develops in city of Arles, which is located in the southeast of France. Highlights include scenarios surrounding a summer countryside view with rivers, small hills, and agriculture fields. It is this time of year that Vincent Van Gogh preferred to capture the effects of light and color tones in his palette. The main character is Vincent Van Gogh with thirty-five years and a scruffy look. In the

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    Mood Of Starry Night

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    The Starry Night: Focuses on the movement aspect. The Starry night is characteristic of Van Gogh as a representation of a transfigured night sky. Its rare visionary pictures inspired by religious mood. Bringing along personal meaning and as well a familiar place to him. The piece Starry Night commemorates the view Van Gogh had from his window when he was sent to an asylum. The piece conveys what I believe a reflection of Van Gogh's mental illness. Starry Night Over the Rhône: The painting can be

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    Vincent Van Gogh Essay

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    Biography of Vincent Van Gogh What drove Vincent Van Gogh, born March 30,1853, to his mental illness and suicide? Could it have been the many things he tried, but failed at in his life? He failed in many different careers, in love, and even his artwork. Van Gogh sold only one painting his entire life. Because of his mental illness, he was considered a crazy person. At the age of sixteen, Van Gogh went to go work with his Uncle Vincent, whom he was named after, as an art dealer at the Goupil and

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    Vincent Van Gogh is a well-known artist to people because of one of his paintings, The Starry Night. Van Gogh has painted many other pieces during his lifetime including one that is currently on display at the Minnesota Institute of Art, Olive Trees. This painting is part of a series of olive tree paintings consisting of a total 18 pieces of art. The one at the Minnesota Institute of Art was painted November of 1889 and is known as “Olive Trees with Yellow Sky and Sun”. Through a contextual analysis

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    lines and brilliantly contrasting blues and yellows and the thickly layered brushstrokes of Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night are engrained in the minds of many. Starry Night was painted in June of 1889 and was inspired by an image of the French city of Arles at night; van Gogh completed this work outdoors with the help of a gas lamplight. Starry Night is an oil on canvas painting and which depicts the view from the east-facing window of his asylum room at Saint Remy-de-Provence. CITATION Van Gogh brilliantly

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    Art piece number 1 The Starry Night was created by Vincent Van Gogh in the year 1889. As Post-Impressionist piece of art, it is clear Van Gogh expressed personal feeling and displayed original techniques and colors that traditionally had not been displayed in art. It was also, a time when science was making breakthroughs in research and new theories were developed, writers and painters sought out fresh new styles. The Starry Night is believed by many to be the view from his room while staying at

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    Ingeniously Insane It has been more than a century since Vincent van Gogh daubed his last piece of art. While his fame as an artist did not come during his lifetime, his revolutionary use of color may have possibly been the most crucial feature of his work. He had the capability of evoking deep emotions just using the simplest of subjects, proving that his mind was in a constant state of change. Although he faced many struggles within his lifetime, possibly the removal of his own ear, caused great

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    Desmond Tutu says, “Hope is being able to see there is light despite all of the darkness.” HOPE. That is the first word that entered my mind when I saw Starry night painted by Mr. Van Gogh. Even Mr. Van Gogh mostly used dark colors to his art, the sky which dominated a lot of space in the canvas brings peacefulness in the painting. The dim light coming from the houses in the village and the church standing in the middle of it added to the peaceful glow of the painting. The painting reminds me of

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    Vincent van Gogh was Dutch post-impressionistic painter who ended up own life by own hand. His paintings are notable for its power of touch in painting, colour and emotion. By picking up some words from his life that influenced his mind and painting style, were “religion”, “Paul Gauguin” and “Japonism”. (Brooks, 2016) (Vangoghmuseum.nl, n.d.). Also those words are related to the turning points of his life as well. In 1853, Van Gogh was born in a highly religious Dutch family, both his father and

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    Vincent In my art appreciation class this spring, we watched a slide show of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting. There was a song playing during the slide show, it was called “Vincent” by Don McLean. We learned that Van Gogh was a sad artist. He would paint whatever he was feeling. In the middle of the night when he was sad and couldn’t sleep, he would go outside and just paint to get rid of any depressing thoughts. I saw his art the first time when I was in the doctor’s office. In my opinion, Vincent

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