Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh

Background Information

• Art dealer, missionary, figure drawer, Impressionist painter, tortured artist

• Born in 1853 in Holland, the Netherlands; later moved to France

• Van Gogh mixed mediums and mainly drew with pencil; black, red, and blue chalk,

reed pen, and charcoal.

• Had difficulty with relationships

• Suffered from epilepsy, manic depression, mental illness, and delusions

• Cut off part of his own ear and spent time in a mental hospital

• In 1890, after producing 900 paintings, Van Gogh shot himself and died two days later.

What is Impressionism?• An 1800s art movement originating in Paris

• depicts realistic scenes of everyday life and unusual visual angles

• uses visible brush strokes, layers of paint, and natural light

Renoir Monet Degas

WHERE VAN GOGH LIVED AND PAINTED

The yellow house in Arles, France

VINCENT VAN GOGH’S ARTWORK

Landscape Drawing

Pencil, reed pen, and charcoal

drawings

Landscape Painting

Vincent van Gogh’s Potato Eaters based on peasants in Belgium

Vincent van Gogh’s The Old Tower in the Fields

Vincent van Gogh’s Harvest in Provence

VINCENT VAN GOGH’S “HIGH YELLOW NOTE” (painting in the blazing sun)

Vincent van Gogh’s Harvest at le Crau (painted in full sunshine from a hill)

Vincent van Gogh’s Fishing Boats on the Beach of Saintes (1888)

Flowers

Portraits

More Portraits

Vincent van Gogh’s masterpiece, Starry Night

What did you notice about van Gogh’s techniques?

Impact of van Gogh’s Techniques: the van Gogh Gallery

Android app

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/"Vincent Van Gogh Paintings." Vincent Van Gogh Gallery. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2013.

http://www.arthistory.net/artists/vincentvangogh/vincentvangogh1.html"Vincent Van Gogh and Art History." Vincent Van Gogh and Art History. ArtHistory.net, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2013.

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Andy WarholBackground Information• Printer, photographer, painter, Pop Artist, silk screener, public icon

• Born in 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; later moved to New York

• Parents: Julia and Ondrej Warhola (immigrants from eastern Slovakia); Ondrej

died in a car accident when Andy was 13

• While working at his art studio, The Factory, in 1968, Warhol was shot 3 times

by Valerie Solanas (member of S.C.U.M. [Society for Cutting Up Men]); he

underwent emergency surgery for 5 hours

• Died in his sleep in 1987 while recovering from gallbladder surgery

What is Pop Art?• A 1960s modern-art movement

• depicts objects or scenes from everyday life

• employs techniques of commercial art and

popular illustration (dark outlines and vivid colors)

ANDY WARHOL’S ARTWORK

Product Box Designs (1964)

Campbell’s Soup Cans inspired by mass production and commercialism

Andy Warhol’s

Dollar Bills (series of repeated images)

print ads by Andy Warhol

Magazine Covers by Andy Warhol

Flower Series (1965)

Album

Cover

Designs

(1970s)

MTV,

Saturday

Night Live,

and rock

band videos

(1980s)

Animals and Landscapes

Pop-Art Portraits movie, music, and political icons (1960s-1980s)

Elizabeth Taylor, actress

Michael Jackson, singer

General Mao, founder of People’s Republic of China

Queen Elizabeth II Muhammad Ali, boxer

Elvis Presley, singerPrince, singer

Truman Capote, author

Death & Disaster Series

Electric Chair

Car Crash

Example of “The Suicides”:Marilyn Monroe, actress

• Shows Warhol’s fascination with death and how he could capture everyday life and tragedies within a frame.

What did you notice about Warhol’s techniques?

How does the silkscreen process work?1. Take a photograph. 2. Tightly crop the photo.3. Transfer it onto acetate (clear plastic film). 4. Expose the image. 5. Underpaint the canvas with bright paint. 6. Create the final print by applying silk screen and

black ink.7. Make multiples with different colors.Materials Used: photographs, acetate, silkscreen canvas, squeegee, paint, brushes

Example of Warhol’s Silk Screening

Original Image Pop-Art Silk Screen

Impact of Warhol’s Techniques: the Andy Warhol wallpaper Android app

http://www.arthistory.net/artists/andywarhol/andywarhol1.html"Andy Warhol and Art History." Andy Warhol and Art History. ArtHistory.net, n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2013.

http://www.slideshare.net/jtrip/andy-warhol-5-1Eder, Molly. "Andy Warhol." Andy Warhol 5 (1). SlideShare, 4 June 2012. Web. 30 Sept. 2013.

http://www.stencilrevolution.com/profiles/andy-warhol/"Andy Warhol Biography - Life, Death, and Inspiration."

RSS. Stencil Revolution, n.d. Web. 01 Oct. 2013.

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