Van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh’s canvases are sharp and unrestrained, these traits are also attributed to the artist himself. Vincent van Gogh, the eldest son of a Dutch Reformed minister and a bookseller’s daughter, pursued various vocations, including that of an art dealer and clergyman, before deciding to become an artist at the age of twenty-seven. Over the course of his decade-long career (1880–90), he produced nearly 900 paintings and more than 1,100 works on paper. The Artist behind the iconic Starry Night was not so famous in his day, only years later did his brilliance/ madness get recolonization from the public. His work is iconic, displaying rapid movement and emotion through his gestural brushstrokes. He implied a technic known as impasto. The term Immpasto is used to describe a painting technique where paint (usually oil) is laid on so thickly that the texture of brush strokes or palette knife are clearly visible.Van gogh was a master of this.
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Brushstrokes
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Vincent van Gogh is known for working at feverish speed and laying on thick slabs of paint creating a very visible brushstroke. His application of brushwork is careful and considered. The thick marks sit side by side in series of lines with differently colors indicate both form, movement and value.
We know through our work with hatch lines and complex contour lines that lines can indicate and describe more than just a outline. By clustering lines we can indicate value and shadows, like with out hatch lines. Or the direction of the line work can indicate the curvature of a form. "Line follows form". Van gogh knew these tricks and used them to his advantage when creating his artwork. Consider his Starry Nigh , without his directional brushstrokes would you know the direction of the air or the tilt of a roof? Look at his famous no ear self portrait. Notice how his brushwork curve around his cheek bones to give form or drape downward around his gauze. |
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Practice Assignmentusing the concept of "Brushwork" or line follows form create a piece or fuit or vegetable painted in the style of van gough that displays form, using evident brushstrokes. Try to make it make it fun... go ahead... i dare ya.
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PORTRAITS of a Shoe
This painting of a pair of down-at-heel shoes prompts speculation on a variety of psychological questions. They have been seen as symbolizing Van Gogh's difficult passage through life.
A fellow student in Paris reported that Vincent bought these workman's boots at a flea market, intending to use them in a still life. Finding them still a little too smart, however, he wore them on a long and rainy walk. Only then were they fit to be painted.
Van Gogh made a number of still lives with old shoes. To him, as to several of his contemporaries, they may have been symbolic of the hard yet picturesque life of the laborer.A portriat of their life so to speak.
https://www.vincentvangogh.org/a-pair-of-shoes.jsp
ASsignmentIn the style of van gogh create a portrait using shoes! who is the wearer? You can tell a lot about a person by the type of footwear they wear and have.
The majority of the composition must filled Non human to help convey your person. Requirement
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