' Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat', Winter 1887.
[ Oil on canvas, 44x37.5cm ]

Element of design

Line - Brush movements makes the photo like its moving and 'real'.

Shape- The picture shows a geometric shape (oval) like a ''egg''.

Direction - The lines on the picture is vertical ( feeling of balance and formality)and oblique ( movement and action).

Size - Just nice to see [picture balance]

Texture - This picture shows visual texture but if we are there to touch its surface, it might be rough and hard because of the oil paint.

Colour - bright colours [red, orange, yellow, sky blue, liliac and green]

Value - Top of the picture is light and the bottom of the picture is dark....so its lightness to darkness.

Principles of design

Balance - The pictures has balance because between the vitality of Van Gogh's colour and his energy of  his  brushwork.

Gradition - The above picture has gradition because of the lightness to the darkness. [ top to bottom].

Contrast - He uses bright colours. Example red, orange, yellow, white, sky blue, liliac and green [firework] to create the interest of the viewers.

Harmony- Both side of the picture has the brushstrokes lines.It makes it look similar.

Dominance- Is the white hat because its the center of attention.

Rhythm - Rhythm of brushstrokes. Example the face and the jacket. 

How to Paint Like an Expressionist

—  1st, go with your instinct, not your intellect.

—  2^nd, start by letting the subject matter of the painting determine the colors you select.

—  3^rd, limit the number of colors you use to five -a light, medium, dark, and two tones in between.

—  4^th, paint with them according to tone not hue.

—  5^th, use the color straight from the tube, unmixed.

Finally, don't second guess yourself until you've done quite a bit of painting, then step back and look at the result.

What must a painter have ?

  "1. Every artist, as creator, must learn to express what is personally characteristic. (The element of personality.)

"2. Every artist, as a child of his era, must express what is characteristic of this age. (The element of style in its interior value, consisting of the language of the times and the language of the people.)

"3. Every artist, as servant of the art, must express that which is characteristic of art generally. (The element of pure and eternal art, found among all human beings, among all peoples and at all times, and which appears in the work of all artists of all nations and in all ages and which does not obey, as essential element of art, any law of space or time.)"

Vincent van Gogh

Expressionism Artist

•Vincent van Gogh painted a lot of self-portraits, experimenting with various techniques and approaches (and saving money on a model!).

 

•Many, including this one, are not finished to the same level of detail throughout, but are psychologically powerful nonetheless.

 

Van Gogh's style of self-portrait (the poses, the intense brushwork, the introspective expression) influenced the portraits created by Expressionist painters such as Emil Nolde, Erich Heckel, and Lovis Corinth.

ART MOVEMENT -->>> EXPESSIONISM

Definition of “EXPRESSIONISM”

—Is a term used to describe a movement of the early 20th century (c.1905-20) that was most prominent in Germany & Austria.

Aims of an Expressionist

—To express emotions through the use of vivid colours & strong, distorted lines, rather than capturing a likeness or reality.

—Their work was characterized by intense, violent, and non-naturalistic colours, painted in a textural manner.

Influential Expressionism Artist

 

—The work of  Vincent van Gogh, Full Name: Vincent Willem Van Gogh, Born: March 30th 1853 in Groot Zundert, Brabant Holland. Died: July 27th 1890 in Auvers-sur-Oise, France.

—He had a lot of influence on artists who are now classified as Expressionists. Van Gogh's influence is evident in many Expressionist works as painters emulated his use of pure, bright colours, his emphatic brushwork, and his contrasting colour combinations in their own paintings.

—Museum directors and private collectors in both Germany and Austria were among the first to start buying Van Gogh's paintings & by 1914 there were more than 160 of his works in German & Austrian collections.

 

Categories of paintings

 

—Portrait

—Dark side of human

—Landscape

—Orchard

—Animal

—Tribal

—War

—Abstract

—Psychological & emotional