Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Self-Portrait, 1887 Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1888

Who Was Van Gogh?

• A Dutch Post Impressionist artist• A poor artist who was born in the

Netherlands and later lived in France from 1853 to 1891.

• He tried many different jobs before becoming a artist: Art dealer, minister, and bookkeeper.

• He never sold a painting in his life, but is now one of the most famous painters in the world. And his art work sells for up to as much as $82.5 million.

Post Impressionism

• Intense colors• Apply paint thick• Visible brushstrokes

Van Gogh was influenced by Paul Gauguin. Gauguin was a leader of Post Impressionism.

Sunflowers

• Vincent began painting sunflowers to decorate his friend, Gauguin's, bedroom.

• The majority of Van Gogh's sunflowers in vases were created in Arles, France during 1888-1889.

• He wanted to show the stages and life of sunflowers.

What is the different about these two paintings?

Artist: Diego Rivera

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Which sunflower painting do you like better? Why?

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What warm colors do you see?

What cool colors do you see?

There are neutral colors in this

painting, too.

Can you find them?

Color

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What is a tint/shade?

• Tint=Mixing white with a hue (or a color) to make it appear lighter.

• Shade=Mixing black with a hue to make it appear darker.

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Space

• Positive Space=The space occupied by and object.

• Negative Space=The space around an object.

What is the positive space? What is the negative space?

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• http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

• www.google.com

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

References

• http://www.vangoghgallery.com/

• www.google.com

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

• http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html

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