Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
Artist concept:
Van Gogh as a Dutch post-impressionist painter, his works are well known
for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color. Van Gogh's influence on
expressionism, fauvism and early abstraction was enormous, which can be seen in
many other aspects of 20th-century art. The most famous painting of Van Gogh is
the "Starry Night", he painted that with thick and curve lines and
create a very rough texture. Van Gogh said, "It is good to love many
things, for there in lies strength, and whosoever performs much, and can
accomplish much, and what is done with love is well done." The
application of colors in Van Gogh’s artwork create a lively image, and with the
strength of feeling in his works that resulted in a big achievement of him in
the filed of art. He influenced by Impressionism,
Pointillism
and other artistic style that helped him to achieve the higher level of
artistic expression and artistic practice. In his early works he worked with
bright colors and he painted many still life paintings of flowers,
experimenting with color, light and techniques he learned from several
different modern artists before moving on to other subjects.
Artist
techniques:
Van Gogh’s style changed immensely when
he moved to Paris in 1886 and was greatly influenced by the work of the
Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists.
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He began using a lighter palette of
reds, yellows, oranges, greens, and blues, and experimented with the broken
brush strokes of the Impressionists.
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Attempted the pointillist technique of
the Neo-Impressionists whereby the viewer optically mixes contrasting dots of
pure color into the resulting color.
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Dark outlines around objects, filling
these in with areas of thick color.
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Van
Gogh's emerging style saw him emotionally reacting to subjects through his use
of color and brushwork. He deliberately used colors to capture mood, rather
than using colors realistically.
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