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    known artists who played major roles in the art world. Van Gogh’s painting called The Starry Night is known to many people as being very eye catching and interesting. Leonardo da Vinci’s painting called Mona Lisa is said to be one of the most famous paintings in the world. Both paintings have a significant meaning behind them along with many rumors. Vincent Van Gogh did a painting that he called The Starry Night that was a post-impressionism style of art. It was created in June, 1889 in Saint Remy

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    painted, Van Gogh was staying in an asylum at Saint-Remy-de-Province. He painted the view from his east-facing bedroom window, just before sunrise. Today, the painting can be found at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The Starry Night has more meaning today than it did when it was first painted in 1889. Art critics, at that time, thought that Van Gogh’s style was sloppy and childish. They thought it wasn’t as good as other more photographic and realistic paintings

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    ask multiple people what their definition of art is, all the answers will be diverse.There are a variety of different types of art. For example, there are paintings, sculptures, photography and many more. Different types of art can have nothing in common with the other types. Art can be so many things. There are even different styles or movements of art. To elaborate, impressionism, cubism, expressionism, and many more are all different styles of art. Can Vincent Van-Gogh and Jackson Pollock which

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    when he painted The Large Bathers (Harris & Zucker, n.d.). Comparing the paintings Matisse’s Joy of Life and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon to Cezanne’s The Bathers, we can see both similarities and differences. They are all remarkable works of art in their own right, but it is clear that Cezanne post-impressionism sets the foundation for Picasso’s and Matisse’s later work in Cubism through Cezanne’s innovative abstract depictions of nudes. During the Renaissance, the human body was studied

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    Elisabeth later published a booklet of poetry detailing his life. This brought forth the attention of many others who knew Van Gogh to then write about him as well. Later, in the Municipal Museum in Amsterdam, hundreds of his drawings and paintings were displayed. After 1914, many publications of letters, art, and biographies were published in remembrance of Vincent Van Gogh’s work

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    issues to art assumes that art represents “the thing” one way or another. But there can be a more interesting perspective, which is looking at the field of art as a place of work. Basically look at what it does not what it shows. Amid all other forms of art, fine art has been associated with post-Fordist ideology. Post-Fordism is a popular system of economically based on production, consumption and has been in most industrialized countries since the late 20th century. Contemporary art is not an out

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    flare on the scene created by Cézanne, he should not have been enraged for having been mocked in any form, but honored to be the inspiration behind equally respectable pieces. Paul Cézanne, The Large Bathers, 1906, oil on canvas, (Philadelphia Museum of Art) (Harris & Zucker, 2014) Matisse’s Bonheur de Vivre is notably

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    This one of a kind painting illustrated by Van Gogh in the Starry Night is full of shining stars, swirling clouds, and a very bright moon. Although the village seems to be painted in some different dark colors, there is a sense of comfort in a way that it evokes the sensation of warmth in the home and family by the lighted windows. Although one can sense the silence of the night in the painting by the night sky, the entire village seems rather peaceful than the night sky even though it is painted

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    Vincent van Gogh Post-Impressionists left behind the Impressionist doctrine of truth to nature. Rather, they chose “in favor of restless feeling and intense color, as in this highly charged picture, van Gogh made his work a touchstone for all subsequent Expressionist painting” (WikiArt, 2016). Vincent Van Gogh’s, The Starry Night, is Post-Impressionism oil painting on canvas. He created it in 1889, during the time he was committed to the mental asylum in Saint-Rémy, France. The Starry Night

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    Vincent Van Gogh while he was in an Asylum at Saint Remy de Provence. It portrays the view of the sunrise and the small village from the east facing window in Van Gogh’s room. The Starry Night is one of Van Gogh’s finest works, displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York since 1941. Van Gogh during his stay at the Asylum, is where he began producing some of his well-known paintings of his career, and The Starry Night is one of them. He was permitted with a ground floor studio which he produced his

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