This week for our writing we were told to compare and contrast two very famous artists, Van Goghs ‘Sunflowers’ and Henri Matisse’s ‘La Musique’. Van Gogh and Matisse are very different artists. Van Goghs style of art was Expressionism and Henri Matisses style of art was Fauvism.
Van Gogh was born in Holland. Most of his life he was miserable and even he cut his own ear off and sent it to his girl friend. He created lots of paintings but he only sold one for $1000 dollars. When he died his paintings became famous because his sister sold his art and convinced people to buy it.
‘Sunflowers’ has a lot of yellow in it. Yellow is thought of as a happy colour. When I look at this painting I feel happy because I like the colour yellow and I like flowers. Some of the flowers look dead in the painting because they are hanging down. I think Van Gogh felt sad when he was painting them.
‘La Musique’ This painting has more brighter colours then ‘sunflowers’. Unlike Van Gogh, Matisse used firm painting strokes instead of little solid strokes like Van gogh. What I like about this painting is it show’s some detail in it. The colours that he used in this painting were blue, yellow, red and a little bit of white. I think that Matisse felt very proud painting this picture.
Hi Aidan,
ReplyDeleteIt's great you've learnt to see the differences between two famous artists in the world. Did you know that Vincent Van Gogh worked hard, and produced more than 2,000 paintings, drawings and sketches in the last ten years of his life. That's a huge achievement. The Sunflowers painting is most famous for its vibrant colours, like yellow, brown and orange.
Here is another fascinating fact, two years before he died, Henri Matisse had a museum opened to honour his work and is now the third largest Matisse art collection in France. Must attract alot of art enthusiast from around the world.
Awesome writing Aidan, looking forward to more stories.
Love Mum (aka Taulagi Teleso) xxxx