Monday, October 28, 2013

Art One - Blog 2 - van Gogh

A mid to late 30s man gazing to the left with a green coat, gray tie and wearing a straw hat

Watch the following video.  It is a group of Vincent van Gogh's paintings set to Don Mclean's "Starry, starry night" song.  Van Gogh was a Dutch artist who lived in France for the most productive years of his life.  He was born in 1853 and died in 1890 - only 37 years old.  Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

Grab a comfy chair and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD1ih3Q9otE

39 comments:

  1. I have never even seen half of these paintings. I hope we learn more about them when we do this project! I'm not too sure about this song though...
    You can tell Vincent has many different ways of painting. Some looked very realistic, while others looked almost cartoon-like.
    -Haley Harden

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  2. That is good and special!
    Jack.Yang

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  3. These painting are really good. I think he is particularly well at nature paintings.

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  4. they are all amazing and some are very detailed while others seem to be more shape depicted and kind of blurry. his best are definitely his nature paintings. - Kendall Herron

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  5. His paintings are very detailed. He excels and paintings of nature and people.
    ~Meghan Chamlee

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  6. this are so beautiful and the song they paired with it is ironically incredibly accurate. I wish that I could paint like that... this is so inspiring.

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  7. Van Gogh is an artist. His paintings is great. he has many panintings, it's very beautiful. I like most of his works is the stars. i think it's fairytable.-Denny Deng

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  8. I have aready known Van Gogh. I love his picture named Sunflower. There are many beautiful pictures in the video. It's pretty.

    Jennifer.Jia

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  9. Before this time, I never see that, because I like anime than this. But this time I like those things. They sometimes looks like a people but sometimes lookes like a view.Those all are magic things. And i am surprise to know Vincent van Gogh is only 37 years old.
    ----------------Tia Ouyang

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  10. Before this time, I never see that, because I like anime than this. But this time I like those things. They sometimes looks like a people but sometimes lookes like a view.Those all are magic things. And i am surprise to know Vincent van Gogh is only 37 years old.
    ----------------Tia Ouyang

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  11. his paintings are good.
    - Torrian

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  12. These are all great works:) I enjoyed looking at them!!

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  13. this stuff is pretty great
    - allen leach

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  14. He is an amazing artist! i loved seeing all of them!
    -Stephen Dance

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  15. I liked the song. The pictures made me feel sad. I don't know why!

    Luke

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  16. He is an inspiring artist! I enjoyed looking at all the landscape paintings.
    -Megan Ingram

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  17. it was pretty cool - tommy

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  18. i thought it was really inspiring, and i think he is really good at nature paintings-Tristan Hilyer

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  19. I thought these paintings were really cool
    - Jackson

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  20. I like his paintings. Seems like he have a variety of styles
    -TJ Sams

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  21. He has an interesting technique to his painting. I like some of his art, and others not so much. Cool song for the video. Don Mclean is pretty awesome.
    -Hannah Colquitt

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  22. His paintings are very interesting. That song that was playing during the video was pretty cool. He has cool styles
    -wesley Hanson

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  23. very nice!
    daniel weaver

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  24. i like the way they used many different colors and did short strokes. it leaves a nice texture.
    -Evan Sapp

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  25. This was really sick. I hadn't seen even close to half of these paintings, and I really like a good portion of them.

    --Tucker Braddy

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  26. I liked his paintings. They showed a lot of detail, and I liked the song that went with it.
    -Laney Elliott

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  27. Those are great paintings.

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  28. Last comment was mine
    Connor

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  29. That song went well with the paintings that were being shown.
    Will Barkley

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  30. The video was great and the paintings were so neat!
    Rachel Buckland

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  31. I like the use of a bunch of colors and the amount of detail put into these.
    -Cameron Bardash

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  32. They are all quite magnificent and the art style is cool.
    -Blake Spires

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  33. It is retty, I hope i can drew a good picture as good as the picture
    -Kevin Zhang

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  34. I really like his work, especially the ones of different landscapes.
    Brynna Wilson

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  35. I like vans draw himself. it looks so cool. cherry wang

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