THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT VAN GOGH - PROF. ERNEST NEWBRUN скачать в хорошем качестве

THE LIFE & WORK OF VINCENT VAN GOGH - PROF. ERNEST NEWBRUN

Dutch-born Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was one of the greatest Post-Impressionists painters. Today his art sells for astronomic amounts, yet during his lifetime he sold just one painting. He depended on his brother Theo for financial support. His striking color and emphatic brushwork influence the Expressionist movement. His artistic career lasted merely 10 years from 1880 to 1890. As he matured his art grew bolder and more assured, painting three types of subjects: still life, landscape and portraits. His personal idiom and style of brushwork developed using pure colors and broken brushwork. His subject matter became typically impressionistic, such as cafés and cityscapes. He moved from Paris to Arles in southern France, enchanted by the countryside. He was admitted to an asylum for the mentally ill after cutting off his ear following a quarrel. At Saint-Rémy, his art changed markedly. His colors lost the intensity of the Arles period: yellows became coppers; reds verged toward brownish tones. His lines became restless. He applied the paint more violently with thicker impasto, the application of thick layers. Van Gogh was drawn to objects in nature under stress: whirling suns, twisted cypress trees, and surging mountains. He experienced fits of temper and quarreled with his physician, ultimately shooting himself. In this course we will study his universally esteemed art.