Friday, 30 November 2012

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, born 30/03/1853 is a Dutch post-Impressionist painter who does his paintings from emotion and bold colours and died at the aged of 37 in 29/07/1890 from a gunshot wound. He used drawings, oil paintings, watercolours and prints to developed his paintings from portraits, landscapes and still lifes. He inspire his paintings from his surroundings, where he goes, the objects he use and who he talks to, E.g. Portraits of person, still life painting of sunflowers, landscape painting of fields, etc. He did his paintings with every details and tones he was looking at and makes the colour brighter and dimmer. his art movement was Post-Impressionism, Expressionism and Divisionism.

This is a portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a transcript i've done with oil pastel in my sketchbook. in the portrait he has painted a band aid covering his left ear showing how it got cut off by a painter, Paul Gauguin with a razor knife during their argument on 23th December, 1888. this portrait also shows that he was sad when his ear was cut off.

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