Visual art have different kind of art forms one of them are painting which are usually common to people but sometimes people doesn’t understand the meaning behind the painting. Painting can be really interesting especially if you know what is the meaning behind the painting. There are types of painting that have different kind of style and this essay will be focusing on one of the style use by Vincent van Gogh which is Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. With that topic this essay will be focusing on a research question that is to what extend does Vincent van Gogh tenant in Paris influenced his painting. With that said this essay will be focusing on a research question on how the tenant of Vincent van Gogh in Paris influenced his painting. This essay are going to be explaining it by using comparison between his artworks before and after going to Paris and explaining how it is different between the artworks.
Art styles describe the way on how an artwork looks. Style is the way an artists illustrate his or her subjesct matter on their portrays and how the artist expresses her or his vision on their artworks.
Vincent van Gogh or Vincent Willem van Gogh which are one of greatest artists that is known worldwide because of his style and that is impressionism and post-impressionism. One of the famous painting that is known world wide or in the art world that was made by Vincent van Gogh is “Starry Night”, though he was unknown until after his death. Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands on March 30, 1853. All throughout his life he has been struggled with mental illnesss, remained poor and virtually unknown. The parent of Vincent van Gogh are Theodorus van Gogh and Anna Cornelia Carbentus. Anna was a moody artist whose love of nature , drawing and watercolors was transferred to her son which is Vincent. Vincent van Gogh was not the first in the family, Vincent was born exactly one year after his parent’s first son also named Vincent was stillborn and because Vincent was at a young age and his name and birthdate was etched at his dead brother gravestone, van Gogh was melancholy.
At the age of 15, van Gogh’s have to work at his Uncle Cornelis’s art dealership, Goupil & Cie a firm of art dealership in The Hague. Vincent was forced to quit school because of his family financial problems. Van Gogh was then transferred to Goupil Gallery in London where he fell in love with English culture and his landlady’s daughter, Eugenie Loyer. When van Gogh propose to the Eugenie and got rejected he suffered a mental breakdown. The breakdown caused him to lose his job because of getting mad to his co-worker and telling people not to buy the “worthless art”. After getting fired van Gogh work as a preacher and was hoping to be a minister and take the entrance exam to the School of Theology in Amsterdam.
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At first he work as an artist in the Netherlands and then was transferred from The Hague branch of the Goupil art dealership to their headquarters in Paris. After Vincent van Gogh goes back to Netherlands and work there for another six years, Vincent returned to Paris and this time it was his choice. After Van Gogh decided to move to Paris, van Gogh was helped by his brother Theo because van Gogh was suffering from financial problem his brother let him stay at his small apartment.
After moving to Paris van Gogh become inspired by Impressionism art because of the color and light. He began with studying Henry de Toulouse-Lautrec Camille Pissarro and others artists. Van Gogh use his friend as a model to save money instead of hiring a model.
One of the famous painting which is “Starry Night” is a example of post-impressionism style artworks. Post-Impressionism reacted against the naturalism of the impressionists to explore color, line, and form, and the emotional response of the artist, a concern which led to the development of expressionism. Post-Impressionism is an art movement that was developed in the 1890s. It is characterized by a subjective approach to evoke emotion rather than realism in their artworks. Van Gogh was one of the artists that formed the Post-Impressionism. Post-Impressionism have a characteristic of emotional symbolism which mean that their artworks are not focus on the style or aesthetic approach instead it focuses on how they can deliver a messages to the people looking at the paintings.
Van Gogh have influenced people through his drawing that have various of characteristics that is unique in the world and have not been copied by other artists. Van Gogh’s unique life also inspired people to be more active in art and influenced what most people today consider as artist persona. Eventhough van Gogh’s unique style is over a hundred years old nowadays people keep mimicking his style.
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