The artist Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) began his career as a priest and was sent to a small peasant village. He is not so successful as a priest because the peasants think the leader should be rich, Van Gogh wanted to be like peasants, wore shoes and wore clothes like the peasants, and the villagers did not like it they wanted someone rich so they expelled him. He went to Paris, he had a brother in Paris, a buffalo who would choose art. After a short time in Paris with a few paintings, Van Gogh travels to the south of France, he has about three years left to live and then in those years he paints the paintings that have become meaningful.
He paints the boat, the sower in his various versions. The prominent colors are yellow and blue, while in the left picture with the boats, yellow is in the first plane while in the blue sower it is in the first plane. In boats it is the yellow that occupies most of the substrate, the paper, while in the sower it is the blue that occupies most of the substrate. Van Gogh refers to the quality of the color, yellow is a warm color while blue is a cold color. The warm colors like yellow, orange seem closer to us while blue like the sky seem farther to us. In the painting of the sower there is a deeper space because of the blue, although the high horizon line the painting looks deeper. He draws a path that stops in the middle and leads nowhere. The top of the sower, is completely yellow, the wheat is blue and the sky is completely yellow. On the first level it is not a window to reality it does not paint wheat and sky, the same thing in boats, the boats are on the sand, the painting is a painting not a representation of reality. And since in this case the yellow is the one that fills most of the substrate - the painting looks flatter, there is no long stretch. All yellow is parallel. In addition what Van Gogh understands is that he can paint the whole painting and create a deeper or lesser space through the contrasts between yellow (a warm color seems to be approaching) and blue (a cold color that moves away from us). So that the blue field does not run away completely, he parallels it with the approaching yellow and vice versa so that the painting does not look completely flat with all the yellow rising up - it is a strong blue name that moves away. The space of the painting is not through colors that become brighter and then it seems distant, not through the size of the characters.
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Van Gogh creates the depth only by the blue. Compared to Posen who creates the depth by the characters, the farther away he is the brighter he looks like a window to the world, the story of Ruth and Boaz.
Van Gogh paints mostly in blue and yellow. Instead of everything being yellow he dresses the farmer in blue clothes, not really how a farmer was dressed, he uses blue because he wants the game of approaching and moving away. It gives emotional value to color.
Van Gogh's "Night Cafe", with lots of yellow and lots of red. When Van Gogh paints he writes to his brother Tau in Paris, he writes about the painting that he would not be surprised if a man who left this cafe went out into the street and murdered someone. The colors are very close, yellow, orange, very strong. The red that looks very red, and the green that looks very green because they are complementary colors. Not only the colors, the place for Van Gogh is unpleasant. All lines are diagonal are lines of running, we know that horizontal and vertical lines soak up more peace, rest. The table, the parquet, the angles of the tables and the great power of the colors next to each other.
Van Koch on the other hand paints his bedroom, he writes to Theo about how comfortable he feels in his bedroom, pleasant to him, orange and yellow, the blue of the wall, it inspires more serenity. Red is a blood color. It's not only that Van Gogh uses colors to build the space he is so empowering, he builds some emotion in the painting using the colors. Whether the room is cozy or not is another question, it also gets narrow, the bed is slightly diagonal, the table is diagonal, the pictures are crooked but for Van Gogh and we agree she is more peaceful.
The artist Vincent van Gogh took it from a Japanese painter, Roshiga, later Gauguin takes Moan Gogh. There is a madness of Japan, works of art are coming, Europeans are discovering Japanese art, buying it. A new perception is revealed. Roshiga did not imagine that the painting was a presentation of nature. Van Gogh somehow copies Roshiga's painting, the same tree trunk in another painting by Van Gogh's sower. Yellow looks closer.
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