The painting’s size alone does wonders to draw viewers
The night was cold and with every gust of wind someone shivered. The stars were bright enough to light up the night even without the bright full moon in the sky. I was standing in my normal spot in a short alleyway with a line of five
Once upon a time, a student named Majed started his day as a normal student. He was not the best at his studies, yet he had a passion for art studies. He had an imaginative mind that required time to accomplish his drawings. His art teacher recommended him to enter a national competition in art drawings. Majed was very happy as he was one step closer into reaching his dream.
However, the novel Starlight, written by Richard Wagamese, explores those abnormal sights, sounds and feelings created by nature. The story follows the lives of Starlight and Emmy. Starlight has a deep connection with the land and shows Emmy how to connect with nature as he can. Wagamese uses personification in his world-building of the earth. This makes nature in the novel feel as if it moves as one as if its own character.
Van Gogh made paintings that the brush strokes were most times obvious. They were what made the painting so unconventionally beautiful.
Flecks of ash intermingled with snow flitted before him, dancing, twisting, and drifting through the air as they fluttered to earth. The breeze was gentle but biting. His breath, opaque, came in puffs in front of him, clouding his vision from time-to-time. Reflected in his eyes were high flames, golden yellow, bright orange, and brilliant white, and at the very heart of all of these colors, ice blue.
It was a cold night, the moon peeking out from behind the clouds. Fireflies twinkled through the sky like stars, the only color in the gray scale forest. A young boy, Dipper as he went by, chased after them, laughing merrily, either not noticing that the world was only grays and blacks, or just not caring. He stopped, a slight smile on his face as he cupped his hands. He made a tiny crack, and peeked through to see if he was lucky enough to score one of the tiny lights.
Target by Jasper Johns stands 66 x 66 in the Art Institute of Chicago (Figure 1). The large size of the painting draws the viewer in. The scale also makes it so the viewer is forced to look at the painting, it is not something that can be ignored. Johns created this piece in 1961, and it was one of many works in his Target series. Target was his last major work in this series and it ended up being the largest as well.
Vincent Van Gogh’s only painting sold (recorded) in his lifetime is the “ Red Vineyard at Arles”. This was sold to Anna Boch, who is an impressionist and a great friend of Van Gogh’s. The Red Vineyard at Arles uses warm colors, unlike most of Van Gogh’s paintings which uses dark/cool colors (grey,blue, black)
Many canvasses are quite large which, at any proximity, seem to envelop the viewer in the artist 's distinct pictorial world."
He shows his focal areas with warm colors such as the vibrant yellows and reds. Then for the other parts of his art, he uses the absence of colors so that
I say his color choices were bold because he uses a mustard like yellow, a ketchup red, which is what makes the painting stand out, then he uses a pleasing baby blue for the walls. The pairing of yellow with the stark vermilion is the strongest note of color in the picture. These colors, unexpected, isolated notes, lie outside the prevailing luminous scheme of yellow, red, and blue. Within that system are interesting alternations of tones - the yellow and orange of the furniture, the green and yellow of the window: these remind us of primitive pattern of color. Just like his
As time moved closer to Van Gogh’s eventual suicide, cooler colors were used instead of the bright yellows he had used previously. The Starry Night being painted only a year before Van Gogh’s death, mostly contains dark, cool colors, such as blue and black, and very little bright and hopeful colors such as yellow. The article, Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night (2015) at one point states “it is possible to draw a parallel between the artist’s emotional state and a delicate egg: he is being poked and menaced by the cypress — dark, enclosing force representing a threat (or several threats)” (para. 3). Van Gogh chooses to use black to depict the jagged cypress tree that it seemingly stabbing at the sky.
In art, color is very personal and subjective, and gives different meaning to different people. However, in this Van Gogh piece, it is clear what the colors are used for. The blue found in the man’s overalls suggests uneasiness, melancholy and distress. Blue is unanimously associated with sorrow, and it is clear that in this piece, the subject is suffering immensely. The color is used to compliment the feelings the audience perceives from this artwork.
Art is expressed in many ways, such as writing, music, sculptures, paintings, and more. Vincent van Gogh 's "Starry Night" is known around the world. Van Gogh 's oil painting was completed when he was institutionalized in a mental asylum. He painted the dark sky right before the rise of the early morning sun. Gogh used shades of
