Van Gogh Art And Art - 1161 Words

Vincent Van Gogh, born on March 30, 1853 and died on July 29, 1890, at age 37, became the most highly regarded Post Impressionist artist of his lifetime. Van Gogh’s works became notable for color, emotion, and beauty, influencing 20th century artists. When Van Gogh turned 27 he decided to start painting, but started showing signs of insanity. His work didn t fit the tradition of art at the time. When Van Gogh started reaching his most influential years, society at the time declared him unstable. After Van Gogh committed suicide, his art started getting noticed. Van Gogh the artist, ignored in life, painted art that people didn t consider fit at the time. Later after Van Gogh passed on, people started to see his work as art. When Van†¦show more content†¦Even though Van Gogh, the first artist to have mixed impressionism and expressionism, sold only one painting in his lifetime, he remained a true genius. Some would say that Van Gogh failed to use impressionism to its correct form, but he wasn’t doing things by the book, he mixed two types of art and made a new style that we use today, known as post-impressionism. Look at â€Å"Starry Night† painted in June 1889, with oil paint on a canvas, sizing at 2†² 5†³ x 3†² 0†³. He painted an obvious masterpiece, a mixture of impressionism and expressionism. He painted what he saw this out of his window at the asylum, it all seemed realistic to him. His art has changed modern art by the way we use his techniques to pull the view into the paintings, to make it seem like they are in the painting themselves. It helps to involve the reader. We see his work as inspiring, eye opening, even mind opening. He didn t always try t o impress people; he didn t care that people didn t notice his work most of the time. He just painted because it made him feel better, like the story where he would eat yellow paint because it was a happy color, and he thought it would bring him happiness. The painting â€Å"Irises† painted in 1889, using oil paint on a canvas, sizing at 2†² 4†³ x 3†² 1†³, helped him with his hallucinations (Harrison). In this same year he painted three of his sunflower paintings, these pieces are well known, just not is