Starry Night presentation
Transcript: function fun facts: The monastery is an example of Provencal Romanesque art, while the 11th century cloister backs onto the chapel, in pure Romanesque style. The monastery is capped by a square bell tower in Lombard style. Lubin, A (1996) [1972]. Stranger on the Earth: A Psychological Biography of Vincent van Gogh. New York: De Capo Press. p. 186. Naifeh, Steven, and Gregory White Smith. "Van Gogh: The Life." Web. 20 Mar. 2017. The Trinity Forum Reading, comp. Ed. Nicholas Wolterstorff. ''Letters from Vincent Van Gogh.'' Juliet Miller, Van Gogh enthusiast content It depicts the view from the East facing window of his asylum room at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, with the addition of an idealized village. Above the village is a vivid scene of the night just before sunrise. The swirling motion is meant to express his turbulent emotions and attempts to overcome his mental illnesses. Vincent Van Gogh 1889 oil on canvas post impressionism Saint-Rémy, France context discussion questions: Juliet and her Van Gogh obsession form Starry Night Art Historian Robert Rosenblum wrote of Van Gogh: "Of the many marvels that make up Van Gogh's genius, one is his uncanny capacity to project his total visual and emotional attention into anything he painted, animate or inanimate, so that a shoe, a sunflower, a chair, a book could carry as much weight as the image of a human being." Starry Night was painted during the last few months of his life at Saint Paul de Mausole, a mental hospital. Van Gogh painted in the art therapy studios there. It is still in use to this day. By: Juliet Miller & Kathleen Parker Some of Van Gogh's most famous paintings were done there, such as: "The Irises", "Starry Night", "Olive Orchard ", "Wheat field with Cypress", "The First Steps", "Wheat field with a reaper", "La sieste", "The Roadmenders", "Garden in the St-Paul hospice", "Vase with Iris", "Vincent's Room in Arles" bibliography Singer/ songwriter Don Mclean wrote a song, ''Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)'' in 1971, as a tribute to Vincent. -Despite common belief, Van Gogh did not cut off his ear to give to a lover. He was in a bar fight and had it cut off. -Wheatfield with Crows was the last documented work of his before his death -He was a missionary before he became an artist. He would often stay with the people he was missioning too, and live their every day with them. The heads of the church found it outlandish, and told him to find a new profession. in pop culture Van Gogh painted this so as to visualize his otherwise hard to express feelings. While many of his paintings are emotional, this one is one of the more known because it is one of the last that he painted before his death. -do you think the asylum allowed him to paint better? -what is your favorite aspect of Starry Night/ what strikes you about the painting first? -do you think that his artwork justifies the hurt that he hato go through to create what he did? The vivid hues of the stars, sky, moon and cypresses have a near anthropomorphic quality lacking in the landscapes of the French Impressionists whose work influenced his style. He was exposed to Picasso and Monet and slightly influenced by them but tended to use brighter colors and experimented with more techniques.
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