I haven't posted anything related to art in a long time. Paintings I plan to finish are dormant, and I do not know when I'll start again. But preparing for this essay sparked my art-senses (hehe). I was reminded again on why I love painting.
So I'll just copy-paste and edit whatever's necessary to share the revival of my love in art.
Vincent Van Gogh, a man who was in touch with his emotions and expresses them through the colors in his painting.
Paragraph 1: (Historical Events)
The Second Industrial Revolution, became the 19th century’s progress in Industrialization. Scientific Knowledge continued guiding public to make technological advances. Darwin’s Theory of Origin of Species (Survival of the fittest) had contributed to the competition of industrialization. The change of lifestyle in society led to consciousness of differentiating “old” and “new”, thus developing modernism and modernist art. Photography was also introduced to the public, creating a freezing-time image, which is unlike the images for painting.
Paragraph 2: (Technical Innovations of Starry Night)
Starry Night is a post-impressionist painting by the Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh. The technical innovation provided by Van Gogh is the emotional sentiment that can be shown by color, line, shape and brushstrokes.
Paragraph 1: (Historical Events)
The Second Industrial Revolution, became the 19th century’s progress in Industrialization. Scientific Knowledge continued guiding public to make technological advances. Darwin’s Theory of Origin of Species (Survival of the fittest) had contributed to the competition of industrialization. The change of lifestyle in society led to consciousness of differentiating “old” and “new”, thus developing modernism and modernist art. Photography was also introduced to the public, creating a freezing-time image, which is unlike the images for painting.
Paragraph 2: (Technical Innovations of Starry Night)
Starry Night is a post-impressionist painting by the Dutch artist, Vincent Van Gogh. The technical innovation provided by Van Gogh is the emotional sentiment that can be shown by color, line, shape and brushstrokes.
(there's supposed to be a diagram of the breakdown of colors :p)
The diagram above shows the breakdown of the color system where Vincent Van Gogh applied pure colors of the colors shown in diagram when creating The Starry Night. The color he chose indicated his mood and feeling.
Paragraph 3 (continuation of Technical innovations)
The color Blue became dominant because it symbolizes oppression and calmness. The blue is applied in wild, wavy brushstrokes which is applied so thick you can feel the surface. This shows the extent of the artist’s emotional outreach on the painting.Van Gogh became the first man to break the system of impressionist and became the father of post Impressionism. He killed himself, thinking that he was a failure in painting.
Paragraph 4 Opinion:
Vincent Van Gogh indicated painting as a window for expressing our emotions, which I agree without any doubt. In the painting conducted in my Studio class, I explored the techniques of impressionism and expressionism and learned that each color has a psychological effect. The greens indicated envy, blue calmness, black despair and red anger. Where when put together in the painting produced, created a variety of emotional chapters to each parts and strokes. In a lot of Van Gogh’s paintings, the aura of his depressed nature combined with the brushstrokes he puts on the canvas.Every visible stroke on his paintings struck me as emotional sentiments, as if feeling his depression diffusing into my soul from merely looking at those paintings. Though achieving the title of father of post-impressionism, the pain felt by Van Gogh when he was alive will never be masked by new-age titles. As told from his last words, heard from his brother, “The sadness will last forever”.
The diagram above shows the breakdown of the color system where Vincent Van Gogh applied pure colors of the colors shown in diagram when creating The Starry Night. The color he chose indicated his mood and feeling.
Paragraph 3 (continuation of Technical innovations)
The color Blue became dominant because it symbolizes oppression and calmness. The blue is applied in wild, wavy brushstrokes which is applied so thick you can feel the surface. This shows the extent of the artist’s emotional outreach on the painting.Van Gogh became the first man to break the system of impressionist and became the father of post Impressionism. He killed himself, thinking that he was a failure in painting.
Paragraph 4 Opinion:
Vincent Van Gogh indicated painting as a window for expressing our emotions, which I agree without any doubt. In the painting conducted in my Studio class, I explored the techniques of impressionism and expressionism and learned that each color has a psychological effect. The greens indicated envy, blue calmness, black despair and red anger. Where when put together in the painting produced, created a variety of emotional chapters to each parts and strokes. In a lot of Van Gogh’s paintings, the aura of his depressed nature combined with the brushstrokes he puts on the canvas.Every visible stroke on his paintings struck me as emotional sentiments, as if feeling his depression diffusing into my soul from merely looking at those paintings. Though achieving the title of father of post-impressionism, the pain felt by Van Gogh when he was alive will never be masked by new-age titles. As told from his last words, heard from his brother, “The sadness will last forever”.
It may not be an official post on Great Music, but this post nevertheless is meant to be related to this Great Music #2
Title: Vincent
Artist: Don McLean
Artist: Don McLean
Starry, starry night.
Paint your palette blue and grey,
Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills,
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
In colors on the snowy linen land.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
Now I understand what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.
For they could not love you,
But still your love was true.
And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night,
You took your life, as lovers often do.
But I could have told you, Vincent,
This world was never meant for one
As beautiful as you.
Starry, starry night.
Portraits hung in empty halls,
Frameless head on nameless walls,
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the strangers that you've met,
The ragged men in the ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,
How you suffered for your sanity,
How you tried to set them free.
They would not listen, they're not listening still.
Perhaps they never will...
Oh and another interesting news I found
Van Gogh did not commit suicideI'll leave you guys to judge.
And here's a montage of Vincent's paintings + that song playing in the background :)
Van Gogh did not commit suicideI'll leave you guys to judge.
And here's a montage of Vincent's paintings + that song playing in the background :)
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