HISTART 180C Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Langlois Bridge, Latin American Art, The Red Vineyard
14 Nov 2016
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History of art 180c lecture 19 van gogh & catholic gauguin. Dichotomy between van gogh being a protestant and gauguin being a catholic. Van gogh was a dutch protestant working in france and he hated the way art was moving toward subjects of mysticism and religion. Van gogh cared about art that heals, a consoling art . Van gogh, the sower, 1888: the open brushwork was common to the impressionist style but van. Gogh used sets of weird, emphatic marks wholly dissimilar to other artists: he attempted to create wheat out of thickened, obsessive, intense paint. Emile bernard, breton women in the meadow, 1888: signs of modernity: umbrella, small children, modern dress opposed with nuns" habits, he acknowledges the space as modern without strict homogeneity. Comparison of self-portraits: van gogh, self-portrait, dedicated to paul gauguin, 1888, gauguin, self-portrait: les miserables, 1888. Gauguin created many self-portraits (spanning different mediums) Van gogh, portrait of joseph roulin, 1889.
