Van Goughs House at Auvers

The frame of this painting is a very intricate gold leaf frame. It is in the Foster Gallery section of the museum. This piece stands a little more than two feet tall and is almost exactly two feet wide (29 ¾” x 24 3/8”). It immediately struck my attention with its brilliant colors and bold brush strokes. To me this painting stand out far more than any around it. I believe that Van Gogh selected the perfect format for this piece. If it were any larger it would have not been so easy to imply the texture that he did with his brush strokes. If he made it any smaller he would have taken away from the viewing experience by cluttering everything in the picture too close together. The light in this wing of the museum did not seem to

-Van Gogh uses subordination to his advantage in bringing out the focal points and thing of a more important nature.

-The implied lines coming from the house in the distance start the directional force. (Starting at the top right, and moving in a clockwise pattern.)

Van Gogh, who was born on March 30, 1853, was born in the Netherlands and was generally thought to be the most influential painter of Dutch descent since Rembrandt. Van Gogh suffered from a severe mental illness that cut his life and his artistic prime violently short. Before his life ended with a suicide, Van Gogh only spent about ten years of his life involved with art and still managed to become one of the most famous post-impressionist (expressionism) painters in history. This painting, Houses at Auvers, was one of van Gogh’s last. He took his own life about a moth after it was completed, in the same village that it was painted. “With Cezanne and Gauguin the greatest of post-impressionist artists. He (Van Gough) powerfully influenced the current of expressionism in modern art.”(External link, blackboard: web museum, Paris: Vincent Van Gogh). “Van Gogh moved in 1890 to the village of Auvers, near Paris, placing himself in the care of Doctor Paul Gachet, who had been interested in both Psychiatry and the arts. Here, Van Gogh depicted the street not far from Dr. Gachet’s house, creating a flattened tapestry of shapes in which the tiled and thatched roofs form a patchwork of texture and color. Although based on observation, Houses at Auvers- w

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