Many of his paintings were completed while institutionalized at the asylum. Two of his most well-known paintings, Starry Night and Irises, were among those paintings completed at the asylum. Each of these paintings, exhibits both the beauty and pain he truly felt. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Though he remained poor and almost unknown throughout his life, he is now considered the greatest Dutch artist aside from Rembrandt (Anderson 1-3). While living in Paris Van Gogh me and interacted with many great artists causing him to discover his true calling and a great love for painting. Thank you Drew His art often used bold colors and very expressive images. Van Gogh was known for his thick application of paint on canvas, which was called impasto. Impasto is a painting technique where paint is laid on so thickly Art has been essential to civilization. It tells us what our culture is. Every artist in history has been writing, composing, and painting the stories of each culture. Master painters like Jaques Louis David painted Napoleon and other historical paintings during the Neoclassical Period.

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Master composers, such as Bethoven composed works like the Moonlight Sonata. Art defines who are we are, It is civilization, and artists like Vincent Van Gogh influenced the modern world. And even though he lived more than a hundred and fifteen years ago, his work is still altering the way we view beauty, persona and individuality. Vincent Van Gogh is considered to be one of the most prolific Dutch painters of all time. Thank you Drew He only lived to be thirty seven. In Arles, he painted his series of sunflowers with vibrant splashes of yellow that created a vibrant affect in the eyes of his viewers. His work Starry Night was done at home in rural settings. The bizarre whirly affect of the rural night-sky was also the theme of the famous Don MacLean song Starry Starry Night. He loved doing self-portraits and each illustrated the various phases of his life. The common characteristic in all of them was the depth in the eyes that gave an insight on all the insanity and suffering he had to live through. Something very interesting was that Vincent Van Gogh made a lot of enemies while he was alive. He was very loyal to whatever he did and it ruled his life whether it was painting or preaching. In my opinion, he over-did things. And he did not care what other people opinions were; he would just follow through stubbornly. His bad temper caused him problems and he owed a lot of people money, especially his brother who financed him and kept him up. I think because of his attitude, most people never took him seriously.

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Most people never become famous during their life time anyway, at least, not world famous and back then, during the 1800’s, if you did not belong to an artist organization or famous art school, you could The Revolutionary Contributions of Vincent Van Gogh At least one piece of art has more than likely spoken to your soul or at least produced a feeling. This ability presented by powerful masterpieces is how artists are able to portray emotions to their audience. Portrayal of feelings through works of art has not always been the main objective for artists. Perceiving the passions of an artist was eventually recognized as a style of painting known as “postimpressionism” thanks to Vincent Van Gogh, a brilliant psychopath. Thank you Drew Vincent Van Gogh was one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century because of his ability to portray emotions through paintings, create a new understanding of creativity. Vincent Van Gogh shot himself in the chest and died in his brother’s arms on July 29, 1890. The ability to induce an emotion in an observer is the trait of an artist who puts his or her soul into their work.

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