William Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch post- impressionist painter representative.
Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, a Protestant pastor rural family, the early years of his staff and the firm has done a broker, also worked as a missionary mine. He is full of fantasy, love extremes, repeated setbacks and failures in life; he devoted himself to painting the final determination " in the painting with his struggling." His early realist style, influenced by the Dutch and French realist tradition of painting school of painting. In 1886, he came to Paris and met lots of Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter, and exposure to the Japanese ukiyo-e works. The vision changes extend his style. ...view middle of the document...
It depicts fifteen simple sunflowers in a vase. Van Gogh broke all the laws of contrasting colors, created the ‘Sunflowers’ to shock the world.
From the formal analysis of this painting can be divided into the following three points. From the first composition, the figure is only a pot of sunflowers and sunflower largest area, indicating that sunflower is the theme of the performance; the whole painting is a visual center and the main thing. The whole picture is only one countertop and facade. And second, in this painting, Vincent Van Gogh used yellow and brown color tone to created earth tone. He used repainting technique to make the pigment very thick and outstanding of the canvas. 15 different patterns of sunflowers, or flourishing or wither, explicitly or implicitly, to used golden yellow as the background and orange as the main colors of sunflowers, while several flower used black to embellished stamens, give us the strong contrast color. Van Gogh Attached great importance to texture, many brush strokes are brought up, to create a feeling of a flower in full bloom. Especially in the background, cross brush strokes breaking the traditional rules of composition and strokes.
Van Gogh in southern France did “Sunflowers series”. In the French, sunflower means "the sun which was falls on the ground," people tend to see it as a symbol of light and hope. Van Gogh's Sunflowers is not a bright and lively,...
