Van Gogh 1st Person OverviewEssay Preview: Van Gogh 1st Person OverviewReport this essayMy name is Van Gogh. When I was young I worked in a missionary in a poor Belgian mining village. I was never good at any line of work, and the more that I grasped this idea, I found that I would turn to art. Some of my early paintings were done in a refined manner, compared to my later works anyway. One of my most famous early paintings was called “The Potato Eaters.” In this piece there is a poor, Belgian mining family gathered around the dinner table. The picture is painted in all browns, drab, or rather earthy colors. The people look like what nourishes them, and that is the potatoes.
Van Gogh 2nd Person OverviewThe second of Van Gogh’s paintings was on our family picnic table; one of them is called†The Potatoes of the Forest. This was a painting of four young people on their picnic table. The other two paintings show my family walking by a lake in a remote corner of the village. The first thing that stood out to me when visiting this picture was the way the children looked. They looked very much like how they looked, except their hair was much braided in red rather than blue or yellow. After a moment, all they looked like in the middle of the picture were them and the others on the picnic table. The water was bright as ever, yet their faces were in the exact right spots, their eyes slightly downcast. The other two pictures depicted a couple of people sitting in a very dark place in front of a white curtain. The background on the one of the pictures is very bright blue, while the background on the other picture was a rather dark red and dark green with white over large, deep spots of blue. It was difficult to read the pictures perfectly, I couldn’t make out the words, so I had to use a digital picture reader (aka earther) to read words correctly in the pictures. In each of these two pictures there is little change in the color of the background either, a lot of water and a few spots of orange. The same would be true of all Van Gogh’s sketches. Each of the two paintings did not have a distinct texture. However, the other two Van Gogh sketches, and many of his later drawings, are very similar to what I noticed in my observations about Van Gogh. One of my most highly prized possessions is a photo album of mine. Even though I love Van Gogh, I do not see him as good at drawing pictures. He had my back against the wall, but what if I said the people standing next to me were people I barely knew? Would I have a problem with that?! And what if the picture was so beautiful that I looked at it like the artist made art just for show?! In any case, I thought it was so pretty and beautiful that I was just going to make this a painting of a beautiful child. It is very easy to make a painting of people without any concept of what they would do with actual life. However, as I look at those paintings, I see their very real beauty and sense of their worth, which makes me want to take off my white shirt, draw something simple and artfully. I feel that most of
Van Gogh 2nd Person OverviewThe second of Van Gogh’s paintings was on our family picnic table; one of them is called†The Potatoes of the Forest. This was a painting of four young people on their picnic table. The other two paintings show my family walking by a lake in a remote corner of the village. The first thing that stood out to me when visiting this picture was the way the children looked. They looked very much like how they looked, except their hair was much braided in red rather than blue or yellow. After a moment, all they looked like in the middle of the picture were them and the others on the picnic table. The water was bright as ever, yet their faces were in the exact right spots, their eyes slightly downcast. The other two pictures depicted a couple of people sitting in a very dark place in front of a white curtain. The background on the one of the pictures is very bright blue, while the background on the other picture was a rather dark red and dark green with white over large, deep spots of blue. It was difficult to read the pictures perfectly, I couldn’t make out the words, so I had to use a digital picture reader (aka earther) to read words correctly in the pictures. In each of these two pictures there is little change in the color of the background either, a lot of water and a few spots of orange. The same would be true of all Van Gogh’s sketches. Each of the two paintings did not have a distinct texture. However, the other two Van Gogh sketches, and many of his later drawings, are very similar to what I noticed in my observations about Van Gogh. One of my most highly prized possessions is a photo album of mine. Even though I love Van Gogh, I do not see him as good at drawing pictures. He had my back against the wall, but what if I said the people standing next to me were people I barely knew? Would I have a problem with that?! And what if the picture was so beautiful that I looked at it like the artist made art just for show?! In any case, I thought it was so pretty and beautiful that I was just going to make this a painting of a beautiful child. It is very easy to make a painting of people without any concept of what they would do with actual life. However, as I look at those paintings, I see their very real beauty and sense of their worth, which makes me want to take off my white shirt, draw something simple and artfully. I feel that most of
Van Gogh 2nd Person OverviewThe second of Van Gogh’s paintings was on our family picnic table; one of them is called†The Potatoes of the Forest. This was a painting of four young people on their picnic table. The other two paintings show my family walking by a lake in a remote corner of the village. The first thing that stood out to me when visiting this picture was the way the children looked. They looked very much like how they looked, except their hair was much braided in red rather than blue or yellow. After a moment, all they looked like in the middle of the picture were them and the others on the picnic table. The water was bright as ever, yet their faces were in the exact right spots, their eyes slightly downcast. The other two pictures depicted a couple of people sitting in a very dark place in front of a white curtain. The background on the one of the pictures is very bright blue, while the background on the other picture was a rather dark red and dark green with white over large, deep spots of blue. It was difficult to read the pictures perfectly, I couldn’t make out the words, so I had to use a digital picture reader (aka earther) to read words correctly in the pictures. In each of these two pictures there is little change in the color of the background either, a lot of water and a few spots of orange. The same would be true of all Van Gogh’s sketches. Each of the two paintings did not have a distinct texture. However, the other two Van Gogh sketches, and many of his later drawings, are very similar to what I noticed in my observations about Van Gogh. One of my most highly prized possessions is a photo album of mine. Even though I love Van Gogh, I do not see him as good at drawing pictures. He had my back against the wall, but what if I said the people standing next to me were people I barely knew? Would I have a problem with that?! And what if the picture was so beautiful that I looked at it like the artist made art just for show?! In any case, I thought it was so pretty and beautiful that I was just going to make this a painting of a beautiful child. It is very easy to make a painting of people without any concept of what they would do with actual life. However, as I look at those paintings, I see their very real beauty and sense of their worth, which makes me want to take off my white shirt, draw something simple and artfully. I feel that most of
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