“Both these northerners were set alight by French impressionism and both admired Gauguin’s abstract, symbolic boldness. Munch’s nightmarish lithographs of lonely souls and depraved sexuality owe more to Gauguin than Van Gogh does…” (Jones). Through nature, hues and motion they had set a new kind of art. The type of art reaching beyond the minds and souls of our culture. Swirling or spiraling motions in the paintings points to both their emotional ties of their minds. In fact, they both suffer some form of disease, which makes you wonder if people with mental disabilities have some capability to see beyond the lenses of the world or could it possibly be an overwhelm emotional imaginative state of mind? The hues contrast each other, showing the powerful of emotion through blues, reds, yellows, dark colors and cool colors. In paragraph three of this essay I reference the river as a place of draining sorrow. If you were to compare the river to the stars, they both represent the same things- the hope of something more in life. In Starry Night and The Scream, references of both the artists’ pasts of pain, sorrow, death, family, hope and …show more content…
Each color represents the emotions of our life. Just as Van Gogh and Munch used color and motion in their paintings to express their internal feelings. We as the viewer should look beyond the actual painting into the minds of the artist. I choose artists and styles because they make me gain a better understanding of their thoughts during that time. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. But what if I told you there is no limited to what art can express. Every tiny detail has some meaning, even the most insignificant object could change the whole meaning of a painting. As can be seen, these paintings make me feel free and gives hopes and dreams of more than pain, sorrow or worry. Both Van Gogh and Munch suffer some form of lose, everyone else does too in one of their life. But I was very young when my aunt died. I was devastated and couldn’t believe this happen. As I sit here now thinking about that moment, I realized I need to look beyond the sorrow and tears. So, inclusion these paintings have taught me that death is not the end of the world. You may become lost in your, but you shouldn’t ever lose sight of your dreams. Death stops the heart, but will not ever stop the thought of