VINCENT VAN GOGH

VINCENT VAN GOGH

 

                                                                           

 SUBJECT MATTER

The subject matter of the artwork is self portrait
in the painting he looks very serious the feeling and emotion it convoy is sadness or melancholy you can see he is not smiling or laughing neither he is angry but he look sad or tired.

TECHINIQUE

The art work was painted with thick brush marks you can see the painting has very strong brush marks, I think Van Gogh used big brushes the marks were carefully applied.
The consistency of the paint is thick. The painting creates an illusion that some forms are further away you can see his face body looks 3D.
the use of colour does closely resemble the colours of the actual subject.
the tonal range of the painting goes from dark areas to light areas you can see around the head there is dark blue it becomes a lighter blue tint.
the texture to me seems rough.
ARTISTS CAREER

Vincent Willem van Gogh 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890 was a post-Impressionist painter of Dutch origin whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold colour had a far reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound generally accepted to be self inflicted although no gun was ever found  His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.


He said of portrait studies "The only thing in painting that excites me to the depths of my soul, and which makes me feel the infinite more than anything else."

To his sister he wrote "I should like to paint portraits which appear after a century to people living then as apparitions. By which I mean that I do not endeavour to achieve this through photographic resemblance, but my means of our impassioned emotions – that is to say using our knowledge and our modern taste for colour as a means of arriving at the expression and the intensification of the character."