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Vincent Van Gogh's The Garden Of Doctor Gachet

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Vincent Van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853. He followed his family tradition by joining the international art dealer Goupil & Company in the Hague as a junior apprentice on July 30, 1869. This way, he had branches in Paris, London, and Brussels. In August 1880, at the age of twenty-seven, Van Gogh decided to become an artist. He began to copy drawings, and reproductions after other artists. He enjoyed the work of Jean-François Miller, whose paintings were pleasant and neat. One of my favorite paintings by Vincent would have to be The Garden of Doctor Gachet. It was done in 1890. It has been said that Gogh painted in several times, but only on his final copy did he make an attempt to stylize the forms and outline the shapes of the plants. The red cottage in the back of the painting makes you wonder who it belongs to and what is in there. This painting is mysterious in a way. It also leaves you hanging …show more content…

This self-portrait was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s departure for the south of France, at a time when his mood was clearly on the verge of depression. He uses bright colors and lively brushstrokes. This painting makes me wonder what is on the canvas that he is working on. You can view the sadness in his eyes, and relate to his situation. This painting displays harmony because he looks very focused and in tune with his work. Lastly, many appreciate Gogh’s oil canvas painting, Starry Night over the Rhône River. It was painted in Paris in 1888. He completed this just a few months after his arrival in Arles. This painting displays the reflection of the lights of the town on the Rhône River, underneath a clear, starry night. This was one of the first examples of him working from the imagination. This reminds me of the Saint Joseph River in downtown Jonesville at night time. This painting displays movement because there are two characters walking and the river is flowing into the

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He was a post-impressionist artist responsible for “his own more bold and conventional style” (“Van Gogh Gallery”). He is, of course, most famous for his painting, “Starry Night.” Van Gogh was known to be “highly emotional, lacking self-confidence, and struggling with his identity and direction” (“Van Gogh Gallery”). When he finally decided to pursue art, he had already endured many hardships. He had gone through two unhappy relationships and worked unsuccessfully as a bookstore clerk, an art salesman, and a preacher, where he was “dismissed for overzealousness” (“Van Gogh Gallery”).

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Introduction Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most influential and famous painter in Western art history. In his lifetime he provided the world with over twenty-one hundred artworks a good portion were in his last two years of life. Unfortunately he was unsuccessful be coming famous artist during his life, and was demeaned a failure and a madman. Van Gogh’s artwork only became famous after his suicide in the year of 1890. He was largely self-taught; his paintings became famous for the unique way of creating his masterpieces.

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At around the age of 27, young adult van Gogh decided to dedicate himself completely to art. Early Years When Vincent first started drawing he sketched pictures using pencils or charcoal sticks. He also in fact used watercolors. Van Gogh really enjoyed drawing pictures of poor hardworking people.

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His love and passion for nighttime can be seen in Starry Night and other nocturnal paintings such as starry night over Café Terrace and Rhone at Night. In the painting Van Gogh depicted the night sky, brimming with whirling clouds, stars and a moon. These contours and fluidity of these elements for artist even though it’s not as significant for other impressionist at the time. The use of yellow and white colors creates a spiral effect which draws viewers’ attention to the night sky. Vertical lines like the cypress tree softly remove the composition without retracting from the night sky.

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Vincent van Gogh had one of the briefest careers in art history (Wallace 7). On March 30, 1853 in North Brafant, Holland, the now famous artist was born and he committed suicide on July 27, 1890 at the age of 37. His life was filled with many failures, disappointments, unhappiness, and depression (Wallace 7). Imagine being a child again and making art for your mother. You would expect her to pretend to love it even if it was really ugly.

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Some of these would include both his family life and career choices he would make in his upbringing and early life. First, and the more important of the two, is how his family ties to religion affected his life. The foremost and most obvious influence that affected Van Gogh was his father’s career as a protestant (or Lutheran, depending on the source) preacher (Davis/Van Gogh Museum). As can be assumed, this influenced his views as a child, and the Van Gogh museum accurately describes how this caused Van Gogh to consider following in his father’s career (Van Gogh Museum). The Vincent van Gogh museum, located in Amsterdam, is the global source for finding any documentation and paintings done by the artist.

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During late 1886 and early 1887 Van Gogh created a self-portrait of himself in a grey hat. This self-portrait was a lot different than the first one he created earlier in the spring of 1886. One of the main things that stand out from this portrait is the color. The pallet he used is a lot lighter compared to the one he previously used. It contains pure colors that resemble an impressionistic style.

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Van Gogh's Starry Night is considered his most famous work and it characterizes his individual technique. The style of this painting is another example of mixing abstract with realism. I can clearly tell what is the sky, what is a mountain, and what is a building, and yet all of these objects seem to mix and swirl into one another in a way that they seem connected. The artist use of thick and flowing layered lines made the sky expands beyond the place. In Starry Night Van Gogh´s unique, thick brushstrokes are very much evident and there is a consistency to his technique that adds even more depth and texture to this work of art and made it look like a dream.

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