THE PAINTER

VINCENT VAN GOGH

PRESENTED BY: AUDREY PACANA
VINCENT VAN GOGH

ABOUT
THE
PAINTER

VAN GOGH IS NOW ONE OF

THE MOST WELL-KNOWN
POST-IMPRESSIONIST
PAINTERS, ALTHOUGH HE WAS
NOT WIDELY APPRECIATED IN
HIS LIFETIME.

THE PAINTER
VINCENT VAN GOGH
was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert in the southern Netherlands, the
son of a pastor.

In 1869, he took his first job, working in the Hague branch of an

international art dealing firm. **

Van Gogh's job took him to London and Paris, but he was not interested
in the work and was dismissed in 1876.

He briefly became a teacher in England, and then, deeply interested in

Christianity, he became a preacher .
In 1880, at the age of 27, he decided to become an artist.

In 1886, Van Gogh joined Theo in Paris, and met many artists including
Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Gauguin, with whom he became
friends. **

In 1888, Van Gogh moved to Provence in southern France, where he

painted his famous series 'Sunflowers'.

He invited Gauguin to join him but they soon began to quarrel and one
night, Van Gogh threatened Gauguin with a razor. Deeply remorseful he
then cut off part of his own ear.

VINCENT VAN GOGH

 VINCENT VAN GOGH

This was the first serious sign of the mental health problems that were to
afflict Van Gogh for the rest of his life.

He spent time in psychiatric hospitals and swung between periods of

inertia, depression and incredibly concentrated artistic activity, his work
reflecting the intense colours and strong light of the countryside around
him.

STARRY NIGHT
IS BELIEVED
Van Gogh created Starry Night in 1889
TO SHOW THE just thirteen months before his death
VIEW FROM
when he was staying in an asylum at
HIS BEDROOM
WINDOW. Saint-Remy.

THE PAINTER
 HIS DEATH
ON 27 JULY 1890, AGAIN
SUFFERING FROM DEPRESSION,
VAN GOGH SHOT HIMSELF. HE
DIED TWO DAYS LATER.
“IF YOU TRULY
LOVE NATURE,
YOU WILL FIND
BEAUTY
EVERYWHERE.”
VINCENT VAN GOGH
POST-IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
ANALYSIS
OF STARRY
NIGHT
A Presented: Andreanna Gadian
 Medium: Oil

Support: Canvas

Characteristics:

Post-Impression
The night sky brimming

with whirling clouds,

shining stars, and a

bright crescent moon.

contoured forms are a

means of expression

and they are used to

convey emotion
 white

and yellow
dark blues and greens
 main light

sources are the

bright stars and

crescent moon
 unique,

thick brush strokes

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Interpre
tations
presented by Myla Soriano
What is the meaning
of Vincent Van Gogh's
masterpiece painting
Starry Night?
 History has it that Van Gogh painted Starry Night
while in the mental hospital, and that the
INTERPREATIONS
landscape in the painting is the view Van Gogh
had from his window.

Van Gogh: Between Impressionism and

Expressionism

Art critics at the time were convinced that Van

Gogh's signature style, characterized by bright
and heavy brushstrokes, was sloppy, crude and
childish.

Van Gogh used his exaggerated and expressive

brushstrokes to visualize the way he felt inside
and reveal his personal impressions of whatever
subject he happened to paint.
INTERPREATIONS

While paintings like Starry Night were obviously

far ahead of their time and paved the way for
Expressionism

The feelings of isolation Van Gogh must have

experienced as a struggling and unappreciated
artist before and after he entered the asylum are
visible in Starry Night and literally color the
overall meaning of the painting.
 Starry night conveys strong feelings of hope
through the bright lights of the stars shining

INTERPRETATION down over the dark landscape at night

PRELIGIOUS

In the painting, the moon and stars in the night

sky are surrounded by large halos of light while
a church steeple stands out above the smaller,
less detailed buildings in the town below.

The number of stars painted in Starry Night

Van Gogh identifies Starry Night was artist identified with
himself with the painted during a this almost scary
looming cypress sad period in Van and uncanny
tree in the Gogh's life cypress tree
foreground of the
painting

VAN GOGH’S
CYPRESS
The third interpretation is the
hope Van Gogh depicts in
Starry Night
Presentations are communication tools
that can be lectures.

suggests that Gogh is contrasting life and death

with the stars and moon being the main light
sources.

This interpretation shows that Van Gogh knew he

was going to be at peace when he died this is
portrayed with the use of bold colours in Starry
Night
presented by Pamela Ledon

SONG ANALYSIS OF

VINCENT BY
DON MCLEAN
 "Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land"

VINCENT VAN GOGH

Don McClean is singing about beautiful sceneries, but the
beauty of nature and its colors are trying to conceal a kind of
melancholy feeling that no one can see.

Most people will only

appreciate the beauty of
the trees, and the flowers,
and the mountains, but
miss the parts where
Vincent is actually trying to
convey a message that his
paintings are just a way
for him to escape his
sadness and his demons.
 "Now I understand
What you tried to say to
me
And how you suffered for
your sanity
And how you tried to set
them free
They would not listen,
they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen
now"
This is a revelation and a
confirmation of the state of
Vincent’s mind: he is not
happy at all.

He is suffering because of his

mental issues, and he’s using
his art as a way to try and fix
himself. But just like a lot of
people suffering from mental
issues, hardly anyone can
understand what they’re
going through.
 "Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue"
This stanza shows Vincent’s shift of perspective as his
mental issues gradually get worse. From once beautiful
sceneries, they’ve transformed into sad, even almost
horrifying images.
 "Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber
grain
Weathered faces lined in
pain
Are soothed beneath the
artist's loving hand"
MORNING

FIELDS OF

AMBER GRAIN

presented by Anna Canoy

 ARTIST'S

LOVING HAND
THE WORLD WAS NEVER
MEANT FOR ONE AS
BEAUTIFUL AS YOU.
Portraits hung in
empty halls
CRUSHED BLOODY
ROSE
THEY COULD

NOT LOVE YOU,

BUT STILL

YOUR LOVE

WAS TRUE