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Vincent William Van Gogh was born March 30,1853 in Grootzundert, Netherlands. He was a wonderful artist, although he lived a deeply tormented life and felt that he l was a miserable failure. Dying by his own hands. Life was to calm for him as if he wanted more excitement, by the time he was 27, van Gogh had done a lot of thing and during the time with the miners, he painted the rough, miserable lives of the peasants with which he lived. The person that influenced Vincent Van Gogh the most was Jean-Francois Millet. To Vincent Millet was a great artist. And Vincent wanted to be jus like him but in his own way. So in the later years Vincent Started on a few project that would hopefully bring him wealth. So here’s a few painting he did the Potato Eater is one of them it was influenced by one of his artistic heroes and the sunflower, and Ravine. Are just some of the beautiful things he has created but there are many more where those came from. Van Gogh has even written books like Myra Schapiro it was one of the greatest, most readable, and art critic’s books that van Gogh has ever written in his lifetime. Know that van Gogh is gone his life is detailed in a series of letter to is brother which was published in 1959. I got this from: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/The-Bedroom-at-Arles-c-1887-Posters_i1099842_.htm //__ Artist Statement __//

The name of my artwork is called THE WONDERS OF MY ROOM.I gave it that named because there are so many memories in one room. That it can mean so much for you. The picture I made may not have a lot of things in it but each color represent something exciting or special that happened in my room. The media that I used is oil pastilles. Vincent Van Gogh is my inspiration. The vision I got for my room came from one of his very own pieces. My message to communicate with my viewers was that you don’t always have to full your room until can barely move in it with the things you love. But to use your imagination by using colors. That makes you remember a special time you had in your room. I really enjoyed working on this piece because I had a chance to work on something I always enjoyed doing. I used the disappearing point its one of my favorite techniques. I think I did pretty good. I used the oil pastilles because that’s what my artist were used for his piece even though I changed mine. By changing the way the bed is placed and the floor, walls, little pictures on the wall, I didn’t put the chairs in the room but I did put a dresser in the room. I added a plant, and my colors are so much different than his. That’s my artist statement. And I really did enjoy do this project because I got to learn about other artists that I never heard of before. While doing this project many ideas from Vincent van Gogh artwork ran though my head. That I wanted to create but I had not enough tome to but I just picked one an turned out to look really good that’s why I call it THE WONDERS OF MY ROOM