Artist ProjectVincent Van Gogh

Vital Statistics

Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853 in Zundert, Holland Vincent’s parents were Theodoros Van Gogh and Anna Carbentus. He also had five brothers and sisters. Van Gogh died on July 29, 1890 in France Van Gogh died in the fields and shot himself in the chest with a revolver. Van Gogh’s national origin was Dutch Male impressionistHim and his paintings only became famous after his death

Influences: Personal

Van Gogh’s life was such a failure that he was never able to keep his friends or earn a living. He was brought up in a religious atmosphere and lacked self confidence

For Van Gogh, his paintings were a way to regulate the world and zone out reality because he was such a failure. These feelings made Van Gogh go through a Dutch period where all his paintings were sad and gloomy.

During his time with the miners, Van Gogh painted the rough lives of the peasants with which he lived. One of these works, The Potato Eaters (1885), is known as his early masterpiece.

Van Gogh only sold one painting in his life

Influences: Art World

In 1886, as he went to visit his brother Theo in France, he studied with Pissarro, Monet, and Gaugin and began to lighten his very dark palette also to paint in the short brushstrokes of the impressionists.

His subject matter changed, after he met Pissarro, from the world of peasants to a typically impressionistic subject matter, such as cafés and cityscapes around Montmartre, Paris. He also copied Japanese prints.

He relocated himself to Arles, where he began a frenzy of painting that showed his love for the town, countryside and sunlight of the area. Thus, came the paintings Bedroom at Arles (1888), The Night Café (1888), and Starry Night (1889).

Some of Van Gogh’s influences include Jean-François Millet, Rembrandt and Honoré Daumier.

Influences: Historical

During Van Gogh's Dutch period (1880–1886) he created works in which his overriding concerns for his fellow man were growing. His subjects were poor people, miners, peasants, and inhabitants of almshouses, or houses for the poor.

Shortly after his Dutch period Van Gogh was largely under the influence of the impressionists, a style of painting where the artist concentrates on the impression of a scene by the use of light and color. Especially influenced by Camille Pissarro, Van Gogh was persuaded to give up the gloomy tones of his Dutch period for bright, high-keyed colors.

During Van Gogh's stay at the asylum, his art changed a lot. His colors lost the bright colors of the Arles period: yellows became coppers; reds became brownish tones. He applied the paint more violently with thicker layers. Van Gogh was drawn to objects in nature under stress: whirling suns, twisted cypress trees, and huge mountains. In Starry Night (1889) the whole world seems engulfed by circular movements. This can also be seen in Cordeville(1890).

Stylistic Traits

Oil Pastels

Short brush strokes

Mainly uses greens, yellows, blues, and blacks for colors when painting

Waves/swirls

outdoors

Representative Artwork for Stylistic Traits #1

Stylistic Traits: -oil pastels -short brush strokes: this can be seen on the houses and sky -main colors are green yellow and blue: this can be seen in the sky and cypress trees -waves and swirls: this can be seen in the sky and the cypress trees -outdoors: this is shown because you can see the sky and it shows the outside of a house

Cordeville(1890)

Representative Artwork for Stylistic Traits #2

Stylistic Traits:-oil pastels-short brush strokes: this can be seen on the swirls in the sky and also the village-mainly uses yellow, green, and blue: this can be seen in the cypress trees, the moon and the sky-outdoors: this is shown because it is a painting on the outside of the village

Starry Night (1889)

Representative Artwork for Stylistic Traits #3

Stylistic Traits:-oil pastels- Short brush strokes: this can be seen in the sky and also the building-mainly uses yellow and blue: this can be seen in the sky, stars, and cafe-outdoors: this is seen because the painting is of an open area

Café at Night (1888)

Representative Artwork for Stylistic Traits #4

Stylistic Traits:-Oil pastels-- mainly uses yellow, blue and black: this can be seen in the color of the vase and also the color of the sunflowers-Waves/swirls: this can be seen on the vase and a bit on the sunflowers-Short brush strokes- this can be seen on the background wall

Vase With 12 Sunflowers (1888)

Representative Artwork for Stylistic Traits #5

Stylistic Traits:-Oil pastels-Short brush strokes:this can be seen in his coat and on his hat-Mainly uses green and forms of yellow:this can be seen on his coat and the orang/yellow wall-Waves/swirls: this can be seen in the smoke coming out of his pipe

Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

Stylistic Traits of my Original Art

Stylistic Traits:-Short brush strokes: this can be seen in the tree and also in the blue background-Mainly uses blue: this can be seen in the sky -Waves/swirls: this can be seen in the background sky and also the green in the tree-Outdoors: this can be seen because there is a sky, grass and a tree Before the Storm (2010)

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Conclusion

Vincent Van Gogh lived a bit of a depressing life, having only sold one painting and being mentally ill. Van Gogh today is one of the most famous artists and his memory lives strong. Most people don’t know the story of his life and how that has driven him to create magnificent pieces of art, not to mention getting sent to the asylum. Van Gogh’s life experiences, know knowing how bad they were, had driven him to create some of the most amazing artworks such as in the Dutch Period where he created The Potato Eaters. Also, shortly after being in the Asylum he created my favorite painting Starry Night and Cordeville. Looking back now you can see that sometimes things are not always as bad as they seem.

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