Thursday, 28 March 2013

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincen Van Gogh was born on the 30th of March 1853 in Zundert, Netherllands; and then died on the 29th of July 1890 at the age of 37 in Auers-Sur-Oise France. Van Gogh was a Post-Impressionist painter, whose work is recognised from it's rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour. Van Gogh began drawing when he was a child, and continued drawing during the years, hens his decision of becoming a painter. He had made more than 2,100 artworks consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1.300 water-colour, drawings, sketches and prints.

Some of his works:

A landscape in which the starry night sky takes up two thirds of the picture. In the left foreground a dark pointed Cypress pine tree extends from the bottom to the top of the picture. To the left, village houses and a church with a tall steeple are clustered at the foot of a mountain range. The sky is deep blue. In the upper right is a yellow crescent moon surrounded by a halo of light. There are many bright stars large and small, each surrounded by intense swirling halos. Across the center of the sky the Milky Way is represented as a double swirling vortex.
The Starry Night, June 1889,The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 The top of the painting is a dark blue night sky with many bright stars shining brightly surrounded by white halos. Along the distant horizon are houses and buildings with lights that are shining so brightly that they are casting yellow reflections on the dark blue river below. The bottom half shows the Rhone river with reflected lights showing throughout the river. In the foreground we can see a shallow wave.
Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888,Musée d'Orsay, Paris.


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