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    Museum Trip From my Museum visit Research Paper I went to the Art Institute of Chicago. When I got there I saw the Van Gogh’s Bedrooms exhibit. It was there main exhibit at the time I thought I would interesting to see his work in person. They were the bedroom in Arles the second versions to be exact not the sketches. The Art Institute had all three of the paintings there. I was drawn to this because I like to see what he tried differently form painting to painting. I wanted to see what he

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    FAS-202 02/04/2017 Artist 's Name: Jan Havicksz Steen Title: The Merry Family Style movement: Baroque Date: 1668 Location: Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Origin: Leiden, Netherlands Artist 's Name: Vincent van Gogh Title: The Potato Eaters Style movement: Postimpressionism Date: 1885 Location: Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam Origin: Nuenen, Netherlands Artist 's Name: Jeremie Fischer Title: Is the Family Dinner Overrated? Style movement: Post Modernism Date: 2012 Location: New York Times Origin: New York

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    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. Beverly Buchanan was adopted as a child by her aunt and uncle, Marion and Walter Buchanan. She grew up in South

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    At first I wasn 't sure how the stories of Van Gogh and Ravel 's stories applied to leadership in any way. But when I thought about it more they were leaders in their respective fields. With they they inspired and motivated countless individuals to pursue and emulate their work. And that is a leader by example if I have ever heard of one. Vincent Van Gogh 's ability to see turbulence in his paintings is quite remarkable. Not only how realistically he typed this to what really happens in physics

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    The Potato Eaters is a naturalistic oil painting by the reputable Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, in the collection of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. The painting was completed in 1885 and as is widely considered as Van Gogh’s first masterpiece as the artist himself has regarded it as his most successful painting. A horizontal composition about 82cm x 114cm, the painting depicts a family of peasants, four woman and a man around a square table having potatoes for supper. Somber and earthly tones are

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    Van Gogh: A Simple Job

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    Netherlands, steal one of Van Gogh’s most prized paintings, go home, and sell it. I’ve done this type of job so many times, I could do it blindfolded and with one hand tied behind my back, but that was before I knew there was another person after the painting, or should I say organization. They were highly trained thieves, specialized in stealing the world’s most beloved paintings. I was only a common thief, just trying to make enough money to live, but if I got one of Van Gogh’s paintings, I’d never

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    Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch painter born on March 30, 1853 in Groot-zundert, Netherlands. Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter whose work was a high influence in 20th century art. He was the son of his father Theodorus van Gogh, an austere country minister, and his mother Anna Cornelia Carbentus, whose artistic passion was inherited to van Gogh. His parents had a stillborn whose name was also Vincent van Gogh. He had a brother named Theo van Gogh who accompanied him in adulthood. His

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    Chuck Close is a wonderful and talented artist, and he fought his way to where he is today and still doing a great job in his art. Chuck Close was born on July 5th 1945 and is currently 77 years old. When he was 11 his father passed away, but with support from his mom, he used art to make his way through life. In school he had dyslexia and it was incredibly hard for him to finish school, but with hard work and perseverance he got his B.A. and his M.A. from Yale. He uses inventive techniques to paint

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    The Potato Peeler (1885) (Fig. 1) (reverse: Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat) (1887) (Fig. 2) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of many paintings that lack highly saturated hues and colors by van Gogh. Many have a misconception that his darker and less saturated paintings come from a short time in his life when he experimented with dark colors; the reality is that his more saturated paintings were not developed until the last four years of his life and his less saturated pieces come from a longer

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    Essay On Mosa Museum

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    The museum I visited in a virtual tour is MOSA (The Museum of Modern Art NYC). The building is enormous and stunning, stretching two stories high. The exterior of the building is constructed almost entirely of glass and some 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,

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