Van Gogh Accomplishments

Hampton Dixon

Challenge 2

Dr. Fox

Feb 28, 2023

The Greatest of all time

Vincent van Gogh, or his full name Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands. He died on July 29, 1890 near Paris, France. He was a Dutch painter. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters after Rembrandt van Rijn. The striking color, emphatic brushwork, and contoured forms of his work strongly influenced the current modern art of Expressionism. Van Gogh’s art became Greatly popular after his death, especially in the late 20th century. He was a great painter, but was he the greatest of all time. In this paper we will go through his early life, his paintings and the legacy he left for everyone to marvel at.

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In 1889 he created Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear. After cutting off a portion of his left earlobe during an episode where he went mental, he painted Self Portrait with a Bandaged Ear while reflecting on his illness. He believed that the act of painting would help restore balance to his life, demonstrating the important role that artistic creation held for him. The painting bears witness to the artist's renewed strength and control in his art, as the composition is rendered with uncharacteristic realism, where all his facial features are clearly modeled and given careful attention contrasting textures of skin, cloth, and wood. The artist depicts himself in front of an easel with a canvas that is largely blank and a Japanese print hung on the wall. The loose and expressive brushstrokes typical of Van Gogh are clearly visible; the marks are choppy. The strong outlines of his coat and hat mimic the linear quality of the Japanese print behind the artist. At the same time, Van Gogh deployed the technique of impasto, or the continual layering of wet paint, to develop a richly textured surface, which furthers the depth and emotive force of the canvas. This self-portrait, one of many Van Gogh created during his career, has an intensity unparalleled in its time. Van Gogh arrived at a truly unique mode of expression in his

He created this masterpiece from an asylum. Starry Night is often considered to be Van Gogh's best achievement. Unlike most of his works, Starry Night was painted from his memory, and not out in the landscape. The emphasis on interior, emotional life is clear in his swirling depiction of the sky. Here, Van Gogh followed a strict principal of structure and composition in which the forms are distributed across the surface of the canvas in an exact order to create balance and tension amidst the swirling night sky. The result is a landscape rendered through curves and lines, its seeming chaos subverted by a rigorous formal arrangement. Evocative of the spirituality Van Gogh found in nature, Starry Night is famous for advancing the act of painting beyond the representation of the physical