CompareContrast Van Gogh and Chagall - 806 Words

Comparte/Contrast Van Gogh and Chagall For this essay, I chose to compare and contrast Vincent van Gogh’s â€Å"Starry Night† with Marc Chagall’s â€Å"I and the Village†. The two pieces are lovely and most interesting to evaluate in relationship to one another. I personally love both artists and upon closely examining these famous pieces, I have noticed how similar yet different these works of art are. Vincent van Gogh was a deeply troubled, post-impressionist artist and his painting â€Å"Starry Night† is his most famous piece. Working from memory, he painted the oil on canvas passing the time in Saint-Remy-de-Provence located in southern France while undergoing treatment in an insane asylum. The piece is very energetic with eleven fireball†¦show more content†¦Marc Chagall and Vincent van Gogh are really quite different. They are from two different time periods, Chagall being a modernist and van Gogh a post-impressionist. They also have different cultural backgrounds. Ma rc Chagall was most emphatically a Jewish artist and he was Russian born. Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch painter who was called to be a Christian evangelist at one time. The two paintings differ in that Chagall’s forms are more geometrical, giving the impression of precision while Van Gogh’s figures are much more organic in nature containing lots of bright, swirly spirals. â€Å"I and the Village† is composed of blue, green, white and red colors while Van Gogh’s â€Å"Starry Night† contains blue, green, white and yellow. As this essay draws to a close, I can honestly say that it has been most educational. Now that I know a lot more about Vincent van Gogh and Marc Chagall, I am experiencing a heightened interest in studying their life histories and other works of art. I loved both pieces and feel a new relatedness to