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Direction- A Poem

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DIRECTION

Direction
Interception
Mode of
Corruption

House of
Rapture
What a
Combustion

Counted
Passion
Mode of
Action

Direction
Completion
Reaction
Decomposition.

Teresa Lakier ©.

Vincent Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh

Dutch painter, Vincent Willem van Gogh, was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. Wikipedia
Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands
Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France
On view: Van Gogh Museum, Musée d’Orsay, MORE
Periods: Realism, Post-Impressionism, Modern art, Impressionism, Japonism, Pointillism, Neo-impressionism
Siblings: Theo van Gogh, Wil van Gogh, Cor van Gogh, Elisabeth Duqesne Van Gogh, Anna Cornelia van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
Education: Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1886–1886), Willem II College (1866–1868)
Quotes
Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Is it Van Gogh or van Gogh?

Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890) was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Aug 14, 2017.

Key Ideas

Van Gogh’s dedication to articulating the inner spirituality of man and nature led to a fusion of style and content that resulted in dramatic, imaginative, rhythmic, and emotional canvases that convey far more than the mere appearance of the subject.
Although the source of much upset during his life, Van Gogh’s mental instability provided the frenzied source for the emotional renderings of his surroundings and imbued each image with a deeper psychological reflection and resonance.
Van Gogh’s unstable personal temperament became synonymous with the romantic image of the tortured artist. His self-destructive talent was echoed in the lives of many artists in the 20th century.
Van Gogh used an impulsive, gestural application of paint and symbolic colors to express subjective emotions. These methods and practice came to define many subsequent modern movements from Fauvism to Abstract Expressionism.

Legacy

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Self-portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin(1888)

Clear examples of Van Gogh’s wide influence can be seen throughout art history.

The Fauves and the German Expressionists worked immediately after Van Gogh and adopted his subjective and spiritually inspired use of color.

The Abstract Expressionists of the mid-20th century made use of Van Gogh’s technique of sweeping, expressive brushstrokes to indicate the artist’s psychological and emotional state. Even the Neo-Expressionists of the 1980s, like Julian Schnabel and Eric Fischl, owe a debt to Van Gogh’s expressive palette and brushwork.

In popular culture, his life has inspired music and numerous films, including Vincente Minelli’s Lust for Life (1956), which explores Van Gogh and Gauguin’s volatile relationship. In his lifetime, Van Gogh created 900 paintings and made 1,100 drawings and sketches, but only sold one painting during his career.

With no children of his own, most of Van Gogh’s works were left to brother Theo.

 

For more information, please visit: http://www.theartstory.org/artist-van-gogh-vincent.htm

Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse

 

Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

BORN: Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse
(1869-12-31)31 December 1869
Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, France

DIED: 3 November 1954(1954-11-03) (aged 84)
Nice, Alpes-Martimes, France

NATIONALITY: French

EDUCATION: Académie Julian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau

NOTABLE WORK: Woman with a Hat (1905)
The Joy of Life (1906)
Nu bleu (1907)
La Danse (1909)
L’Atelier Rouge (1911)

MOVEMENT: Fauvism, Modernism, Post-Impressionism

QUOTES:

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
Exactitude is not truth.

Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor’s direct carving.

Seek the strongest color effect possible… the content is of no importance.

In modern art, it is undoubtedly to Cézanne that I owe the most.

 

LEGACY:

The first painting of Matisse acquired by a public collection was Still Life with Geraniums (1910), exhibited in the Pinakothek der Moderne.[59]

His The Plum Blossoms (1948) was purchased on 8 September 2005 for the Museum of Modern Art by Henry Kravis and the new president of the museum, Marie-Josée Drouin. Estimated price was US$25 million. Previously, it had not been seen by the public since 1970.[60] In 2002, a Matisse sculpture, Reclining Nude I (Dawn), sold for US$9.2 million, a record for a sculpture by the artist.

Matisse’s daughter Marguerite often aided Matisse scholars with insights about his working methods and his works. She died in 1982 while compiling a catalogue of her father’s work.[61]

Matisse’s son Pierre Matisse (1900–1989) opened a modern art gallery in New York City during the 1930s. The Pierre Matisse Gallery, which was active from 1931 until 1989, represented and exhibited many European artists and a few Americans and Canadians in New York often for the first time. He exhibited Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, André Derain, Yves Tanguy, Le Corbusier, Paul Delvaux, Wifredo Lam, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Balthus, Leonora Carrington, Zao Wou Ki, Sam Francis, sculptors Theodore Roszak, Raymond Mason, and Reg Butler, and several other important artists, including the work of Henri Matisse.[62][63]

Henri Matisse’s grandson Paul Matisse is an artist and inventor living in Massachusetts. Matisse’s great-granddaughter Sophie Matisse is active as an artist. Les Heritiers Matisse functions as his official Estate. The U.S. copyright representative for Les Heritiers Matisse is the Artists Rights Society.[64]

 

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