My task was to choose four artists whose particular journey in life has influenced their artwork as a way of finding meaning for their pain, life experience or heightened emotions. The four artists I picked were Vincent Van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso and Claude Monet. In the assignment to come, I have attempted to compare and contrast the way the artists approach their subjects and mentioned how their working methods and styles differ by referring to different examples. Also, I have offered interpretations of the paintings by arguing whether the art is between the artwork and the world (global) or just artwork and the artist (personal) and then concluded by stating how these art works comment on, or increase our knowledge of our world and ourselves.
Vincent Van Gogh's particular journey in life heavily influenced his artwork as a way of finding meaning for his pain, life experiences and heightened emotions. Van Gogh has often been hailed as the essential expressionist painter, where ¥Expressionism' "is an art form in which the very style itself and the symbols that the artist uses are meant to express his innermost feelings on the sub
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