Vincent van gogh

vincent van gogh

January 1889

Painting portrait  with a bandaged ear

60CMx49CM

Portrait ,Oil paint

Courtauld institute art

Composition

• What is the main point of focus? Which part of the work draws your eye the most?
• The man in the portrait with the bandaged ear. The man jacket because it stands out the most

• Is the image complex or simple?
• Simple

• Asymmetrical or symmetrical?
• Asymmetrical

• How is it arranged? Vertical/horizontal, vertical/diagonal, or does it use a grid?
• It uses a grid

   

Colour

• Describe the colours - primary, monochrome, hot, cold, contrasting, realistic?
• It uses monochrome and a little of the cold side ,realistic

• What colours are dominant?
• The blue/green jacket

• Do the colours flatten the picture space, or do they establish depth?
• It flatten the picture space because there’s not a lot of shading.

Paint Application

• How has the paint been applied? Smooth/rough, thin/thick, gestural/mechanical?
• It's been applied as thick,rough

• What techniques are used - glazing, blending, scumbling?
• The techniques was scumbling

• What media is used - oil, acrylic, enamel, watercolour, mixed?
• Oil

• How has the paint been applied - brush, stick, roller, rags, palette knife?
• The paint been applied with a brush

Tone

• Describe the tonal values of the work - light, dark, contrasting?
• Light contrasting

• Is there a full range of tone?
• No full range of tone

• Is tone use to guide the viewer to any parts of the painting?
• The face if not no tone

• Where is the light coming from? Is it consistent? Is it a single light source? What effect does this have?
• The light is coming from the lift , it is consistent you can see this on the face ,lift slow consistent to the right.

Space

• Is the picture space deep or shallow? How has this been created?
• Deep because it's all focus there's no blur

• Is there a vanishing point? Where is it placed? Why is it placed there?
• There is no vanishing point in this painting

• Are perspective devices used - linear perspective, aerial perspective, overlapping, placement?
• Overlapping and placement is used in this painting

Line

• Describe the quality of line (the edges of shapes and forms) in this work - long/short, hard/soft, jagged/smooth, continuous/broken, straight/curved etc.
• In this painting the lines are long , short, a little jagged and curved.
• What emotional effect do the lines create? Vigorous and animated or controlled and technical?
• I think he used , a little vigorous and he used controlled

Surface

• How are the surfaces of objects treated - generalised or very specific detail?
• Very specific detail

• Are the textures differentiated (to separate parts of the picture) or mostly the same (to unify the picture)
• Mostly the same

• Is detail used to guide the viewer (more detail on the important parts of the picture)?
• The important part is his ear because it's call “ man with a bandaged ear”.

A wider context

• How has this work been affected by the artist's personal background, beliefs, experience?
• Vincent van gogh had his ear bitten  off

• How has the artist been influenced by social/cultural/historical/political/environmental events
• His ear bitten off because of his friend, they were in a fight

• Where/who did this artist get his/her ideas from.
• From his friend ,his friend bitten it off

Personal Response

• How do you respond to this picture? Do you like it? How does it make you feel?
• I do like because it make me feel like he is a brave man and hopefully after that fight they are still friends.
• What do other people you know think about this picture?
• They like that it's different , different style.
• Does society think this is an important art work? How do you know this?
• People think he is unfortunate man ,brave .I read an article.
• What aspects of this work would you like to use in your own work?
• He use  different colours to make the face , jacket and the picture on the wall.