Gardner's Art through the Ages Vincent Van Gogh and Eugene Delacroix For this paper I chose Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and Eugene Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People Both artists were extremely artistic in their own right and their art today is still looked at with awe and wonderment It is true what they say a picture paints a thousand words Van Gogh and Delacroix s exquisite works did just this Their creative work mesmerizes and encapsulates and has the ability to transcend one into their creative world Vincent Van Gogh painted Starry Night Fig 13 12 pg 367 in 1889 during his stay at an asylum where he was being treated for paranoia and depression Through this dark period his creative flair became prevalent This morning I saw the countryside from my window a long time before sunrise with nothing but the morning star which looked very big wrote Van Gogh to his brother Theo describing his inspiration for one of the best known paintings MoMa It was painted on a canvas using oil paints and is characterized as a landscape painting The array of colors tones and blends are exquisite The blue dominates the painting and the hills blend into the sky The village lays at the base in the painting in browns greys and blues The yellow and white of the stars and the moon stand out against the sky drawing the eye to the sky
