Vincent Van Gogh Influences

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Vincent van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. Someone whose work was eminent for its comeliness, emotion and colour, Van Gogh was a post-impressionist painter who highly influenced 20th century art. Vincent van Gogh has passed for more than 115 years ago, and yet his artwork is still altering the way mankind views comeliness, persona, individuality, and style in art. His thousands of paintings and drawings have sundry characteristics that have been facsimiled by thousands and duplicated by none. Van Gogh's unique life has inspired millions to become active in art. In fact, what many people today consider to be the archetypical "artist persona" is largely a result of his influence. Perhaps the most impressive aspect is that artists perpetuate to mimic the style that Vincent van Gogh engendered over one hundred years ago.

I am genuinely astonished with his piece, Starry Night, and I …show more content…

All the lights are out and everybody's asleep, nescient of the night welkin that's bursting with life and the cypress bush writhing in front of them. This depicts some remotely alienation and ignorance. I feel that the somnolent village represents the rest of the world, nescient of whatever raging passions and agony Van Gogh was going through at that moment. Perhaps this is why the houses seem to appear so far away albeit they are genuinely more or less in the foreground.
My interpretation of Starry Night is just one of the many and it remains very much an elusive work to art critics. Nobody genuinely really knows Van Gogh's intention of painting this piece, everybody seems to be utilizing different codes to decipher what Van Gogh was endeavoring to bring across. Another academic thought this painting to be a convergence of historical forces as it was during this time when there was a public fascination with astronomy and astrology with people like Jules Verne inditing about travelling to the