Yeah seems like him

Commonly known as Starry Night Over the Rhône. This is my favourite. I've had it on poster in front of my bed for many years

Wait, there was a vegan that didn’t tell everyone they were vegan?

And yet, art is the least funded part of the curriculum in public schools, and the first to be cut.

YES

Too bad they can't replace tRump's head with a roll of bubble wrap

He was an amazing man in so many ways!

A prehistoric parent said Yeah my kid drew that even though I told him no painting on the walls

I always see Starry Night as Van Gogh showing us his impression (you know, being an impressionist and all) of what the wind and stars actually look and feel like—-painting them for someone who needed to physically see the swirls of the wind and feel the glow of the stars. All to make us feel them much more keenly. It just FEELS like a clear June night, with the wind blowing, the starlight glowing in the sky, and a village not far away. Maybe a better example of his work that explains what I mean more clearly is his Sunflowers. The chromium yellow paint he used to paint them makes you actually feel heat radiating off the canvas, as if you’re standing in a real field of sunflowers—-or rather, tiny suns giving off heat—-on a bright summer day. Even before I read about the man, Van Gogh’s paintings always inspired such reactions from me, as well as a huge amount of emotion. My belief is that THAT was what he strived to achieve. I wish I could tell him that he succeeded. Far far beyond even his own expectations.

All great minds are

Art is therapy

Apparently, it was a direct reaction to the Industrial Revolution. The romantics were great lovers of nature and despised the growing industrialisation of cities such as London and Sheffield

They figured out why the sky is red, too! Seems he painted it when there had been a major volcanic eruption a long way off, which made the sky look like that. Also I read that the guy in the foreground isn't actually screaming but covering his ears to blot out the sound of something else screaming.

Nobody expects the Spanish acquisition

I want a pet ocelot, not fair. Oh wait, I'm not rich.

His only other redeeming quality, after his art.

In his later years he would have an assistant tape a paintbrush up in his gnarled hand so that he could continue to be productive.

>I'd have been impressed if they had syntethic paints at that time

He sold a lot of paintings. He earned a living by selling paintings. Not his own paintings though, he worked in a shop selling paintings done by other people.

Not necessarily the creativity itself, but the understanding that it’s OK to let it loose TO BE creative. People, institutions, and society itself are guilty of suppressing a vast amount of talent, by making so many talented people feel embarrassed or paralyzingly insecure about letting their creativity flow and flourish. So don’t be an a*****e. Be careful of the words and tone of voice you use when a child shows you something they created (painted, wrote, composed, invented, etc). Same goes for the grades they worked hard to achieve in school. Realize and recognize the effort, not just the letter or GPA, ffs. Of course, that means you have to pay attention to your kids, to know how hard they worked to bring a grade up, no matter how far up they got it. Callous words and an insulting tone of voice can absolutely kill a child’s desire to explore, develop, and expand talents and intellect they possess.

And yet he painted one of my favourite paintings. His series of Water Lilies ... I just look at and feel a sense of calm. They're beautiful.

I wonder who reads them?

Yup! The statues served religious functions, if I remember correctly.

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If you look at paintings—-specifically those more like portraits of real people—-before and after Da Vinci, you’ll see the difference in proportion, as well as more, sometimes gritty, realism.

I'm in two minds about Rodin. He claimed a lot of Camille Claudel's works as his own...

Was the first pencil sharpener that wasn’t a knife (which is an overly difficult and really s****y sharpener) invented in 1566?

Industrial design, high couture, and cuisine can also be considered arts. “Martial arts,” “the Art of War” etc. may be a form of theater, but I’ll prefer not to attend

𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕒𝕥 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤!

I was looking at this painting in the National Gallery (Wash. DC) when an older man who was holding the hand of a woman about his age pushed his way as close to the painting as he could get. "That's her," he said to the woman. "The only girl I love as much as I love you."

And it was probably the least weird thing that guy was into.

His back must’ve been made of steel, because standing up while looking and reaching up to paint a ceiling would just totally f**k my back, neck, and painting arm up.

Wow, what is he holding his hand? An orb?

And yet we still won't fund it in our primary schools. Shameful and sad

The Warli people live in southwestern India.

The gap was smaller than they thought it would be

Many things existed before the United States

For any of you wondering how, he is a miniature artist, once creating a sculpture of the white house that could fit on the head of a pin. Look him up, he's really cool (edit) also he's hot