{"id":2535,"date":"2024-04-24T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:25:45","slug":"intro-to-western-art-4-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/2024\/04\/24\/intro-to-western-art-4-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Western Art 4\/22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Post-Impressionism style had two main focuses: form and personal expression. But constant through paintings was the emphasis of color driving all work. Paul C\u00e9zanne pioneered the use of form in his paintings, illustrated in <em>Mont Sainte-Victoire<\/em>. The colors focus on permanence and the harsh southern Italian lighting simplifies buildings and forms. An extensive landscape is depicted but has an overall flat composition as a result of the structured lines of the visible brushstrokes. The scene is an abstraction as you&#8217;re constantly reminded of that fact that the scene is a painting when viewing it.  C\u00e9zanne&#8217;s <em>Scene from Bibernus Quarry<\/em> is another painting that is abstract in subject matter. The think black outlines (often in box shapes) contribute to giving the scene a flat quality, along with the regularly visible brushstrokes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vincent Van Gogh painted artwork with the personal expression themes of Post-Impressionism. His painting <em>The Potato Eaters<\/em> works to illustrate the importance of all classes of people. The continued theme of flat compositions and the earthy tones of the painting shine a light on a scene that is represented as everyday and overlooked. <em>Night Caf\u00e9<\/em> is an extremely personal painting as Van Gogh&#8217;s self expression influences the solitary and alienating mood. The view of the scene from above was influenced by Japanese prints, giving viewers a new vantage point. The use of color conveys Van Gogh&#8217;s feelings, with red walls closing in contrasting with the central green pool table pulling away. Finally, <em>Starry Night<\/em> was painted by Van Gogh in the year before his death while he was committed in an asylum. He was struggling with his mental health and painted a study of the stars above a sleeping town, which he wrote could be reached through death. The thick application of paint makes the stars appear to shimmer and is reached for by two objects &#8211; the church steeple (religion) and a Cyprus tree (nature). A painting that once seemed to emit a tranquility to me now has a more desperate feel as it reaches to the sky for freedom. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post-Impressionism style had two main focuses: form and personal expression. But constant through paintings was the emphasis of color driving all work. Paul C\u00e9zanne pioneered the use of form in his paintings, illustrated in Mont Sainte-Victoire. The colors focus on permanence and the harsh southern Italian lighting simplifies buildings and forms. An extensive landscape [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}