Van Gogh stayed within what he called the
"guise of reality", and was critical of overly stylised works.
He wrote afterwards that the abstraction of Starry Night had gone
too far and that reality had "receded too far in the background".
Hughes describes it as a moment of extreme visionary ecstasy: the
stars are in a great whirl, reminiscent of Hokusai's Great Wave,
the movement in the heaven above is reflected by the movement of
the cypress on the earth below, and the painter's vision is "translated
into a thick, emphatic plasma of paint"
Color palette
When most people think of Van Gogh, the first
color that comes to mind is a warm, golden yellow. Yellow
sunflowers, yellow fields of grain, even the yellow moon in Starry
Night.But Van Gogh’s paintings didn't start out that way.
As late as 1885, roughly halfway through the short decade Van
Gogh spent painting, he was still in his Dutch period, painting
works like The Potato Eaters, which feature dark, muddled, grays,
browns, and greens. Curious about this shift from dark to light,
we decided to use data visualization techniques to better isolate
the moment of transition to a bright color palette.
Finding his style
Vincent seems to nearly always be in a state
of artistic and emotional exhaustion. As he arrives in Arles itself he finds a
vacant room in a local yellow house for himself. Vincent begins
to artistically contemplate the fleeting nature of many forms of
still life. He thinks about paintings dealing with seasonal flowers,
and thinks of making a defense of the artistic process which renders
permanent and eternal quality to the representation of flowers on the
canvas which do not wilt and wither with time.
Paintings.
«Starry Night Over the Rhône» 1888
«Harvest At La Crau With Montmajour In The Background» 1888
«Sunflowers» 1887
«Boats at Saintes-Marie» 1888
«The Sower» 1888
«Wheatfield with Cypress» 1889
«Starry Night» 1889
«Bedroom in Arles» 1888
Influencers.
El Greco 1.10.1541 – 7.04.1614
Doménikos Theotokópoulos most widely known as El
Greco ("The Greek"), was a Greek painter, sculptor and architect of the
Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" was a nickname,a reference to his
Greek origin, and the artist normally signed his paintings with his
fullname in Greek, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος.El Greco's dramatic
and expressionistic style was met with puzzlement by his contemporaries
but found appreciation in the 20th century.
french painter, a founder of French Impressionist
painting; the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's
philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as
pplied to plein air landscape painting.The term "Impressionism"
is derived from the title of his painting Impression, which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the
independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative
to the S. de P.
was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated
until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use
of color and Synthetist style that were distinct from Impressionism. Toward
the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of
his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region.
His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists
(Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse).
was an Irish-born British figurative painter known
for his emotionally charged raw imagery and fixation on personal motifs.
Best known for his depictions of popes, crucifixions and portraits of close
friends, his abstracted figures are typically isolated in geometrical
cages which give them vague 3D depth, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds.
His work typically focuses on a single subject for sustained periods, often in
triptych or diptych formats
- “As for me, I am rather often uneasy in my mind, because I think that
my life has not been calm enough; all those bitter disappointments,
adversities, changes keep me from developing fully and naturally
in my artistic career.”
Vincent van Gogh
"At Eternity's Gate".
Get to know Vincent van Gogh with 2018 movie directed by Julian Schnabel.
