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Digital artist Petros Vrellis created an interactive version of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Starry Night. The brushstrokes movie and activate music. Vrellis tells more about the project at Creative Applications. Link -via The Daily What
See also: Starry Night is Everywhere!
What's so special about this print of Vincent van Gogh by artist Phil Hansen?
Just zoom in a bit ...
... a bit more and you'll start seeing some letters ...
... and finally, a story:
Phil asked his viewers about an experience that shocked them, and wrote over 1,000 of such stories with sharpie to create the image of Van Gogh.
The making of video clip is amazing:
[YouTube Clip] - via Information
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Previously on Neatorama: Artwork by Phil Hansen
I’ve seen Van Gogh paintings recreated with a variety of things, from food to plants to LEGOs, but this series by photographer Kelly McCollam seems to best capture the Impressionist feel.
That’s because she used spices and other ingredients for cooking to recreate the scenes, and the textures feel much more like the original paintings than most recreations i’ve seen. And when she’s done snapping pics of the scenes she’s created, she can cook up a tasty meal!
Link –via DesignTAXI
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Starry Night is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh that has proved to be an enduring iconic image. Painted in 1888, the scene shows a night sky filled with stars swirling over the French countryside, which includes a view of the village of Saint-Rémy. Since 1941, the painting has been at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. But everyone wants their own copy, or some version of Starry Night. We’ve seen a lot of them.
Suzy Myers used quilled paper to recreate Starry Night. You can see the process and closeup views at her site.
Back in April, Mattel unveiled a set of “fine art Barbies.” The collection includes a Da Vinci Mona Lisa model, another honoring Gustav Klimt, and this Barbie honoring Vincent Van Gogh with a Starry Night dress. See them all at If It’s Hip, It’s Here.
Tabitha Ballard made an award-winning cake that reproduces the Van Gogh painting.
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Van Gogh / Genius
by Huy Lam
At a glance, the artwork of Toronto-based artist Huy Lam look like their original pictures and photos, but when you take a closer look, you'd be delighted to see that the details are made with text painstakingly colored and shaped into the images.
Here's what Lam said about his art:
Link - via Laughing Squid... From afar you see a portrait of Nelson Mandela which looks like it could be a pencil or charcoal drawing. But as you come closer and closer, you realize its created from a different media. After farther inspection, parts of words start to emerge on top of layers of other fragmented words until you finally come across the completed words, 'my hero'. Nelson Mandela is my hero and I created a portrait of him with only words. A portrait of Che Guevara is created from the words 'bought a T-shirt' because I've also bought the iconic T-shirt when I was young and rebellious. [...]
All the images are created with 4 point type.
Inflatable Van Gogh | $11.95
For those times when you feel the need for emergency art, there’s the Inflatable Van Gogh in a can, now available at the NeatoShop. It’s Van Gogh’s most famous work, Starry Night, that can be inflated to hanging size or stored in its full-color illustrated tin. Never be caught short on art again! Add some class to your condo or cubicle with this Inflatable Van Gogh painting! Each 19-1/4″ x 15-3/4″, vinyl masterpiece is a stunning example of high concept kitsch for the cultured cosmopolitan. Makes a great gift!
Check out other decorative items for your home at the NeatoShop!
Flavorwire has assembled a cool slideshow of people with artist-inspired tattoos, from the pop art of Andy Warhol to Banksy’s graffiti work. Other artists represented include Joan Miro, Salvador Dali, Gustav Klimt, Georgia O’Keeffe and Frida Kahlo. I think the colors in the Starry Night-inspired sleeve above are just gorgeous.
(L) Self portrait dedicated to Paul Gauguin (1888, van Gogh)
(R) James Birkbeck (via Flickr)
Artist James Birkbeck likes to compare himself to Vincent van Gogh – he even looked like him, so he decided to put on a little make up and take a self-portrait as the renowned Dutch painter! Link
See also: Living Paintings by Alexa Meade
Image: Deviant artist 1funnyguy
Popped Culture has a gallery of the neatest parodies of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night you’ll see today. My favorite is this one above, titled Gotham Starry Night by deviantART user 1funnyguy. Check out the entire gallery here: Link
Here’s a clever use of thermochromatic ink (the kind of ink that changes color with heat): pour hot coffee into this mug, and watch Van Gogh’s ear disappear!
From the NeatoShop: Disappearing Van Gogh’s Ear Mug | More "disappearing" mugs
Doyle Geddes, a teacher at Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah, led 150 students through the construction of the world’s largest recreation of Van Gogh’s masterpiece Starry Night. The finished product was 72 feet by 90 feet on the gym floor, and an inch deep in breakfast cereal! A Malt-O-Meal factory donated two tons of Tootie Fruities, Cocoa Dyno-Bites and Frosted Mini Spooners for the project.
“To the best of our knowledge it is the largest re-creation of a Van Gogh work of art in any medium,” he said. The re-creation – made with blue, purple, red, green, yellow and brown cereals – was displayed in a gym at Sky View.
As he looked at the completed project Saturday, Geddes said, “I think it’s better than we even expected or dreamed that it could be.” He thinks Van Gogh would be happy with the re-creation, too.
The work was displayed to the public for four hours on Saturday, then the cereal was collected and given to a farmer to feed his pigs. The Herald Journal details the process of making the recreation. Link to story. Link to time-lapse video.
(image credit: Alan Murray/Herald Journal)
Famous paintings are a huge part of history and culture. Many of them are paintings of people without any identification. Who was Picasso’s Weeping Woman? Who was the man behind the apple in The Son of Man? Find out.
American Gothic is a famous painting that was created in 1930. Wood entered the painting in in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning the bronze medal. Since it came out at the onset of the Great Depression, it was viewed by many as a symbol of the steadfast American spirit. Many saw it as a struggling farmer and his wife who refuse to give up. The woman is actually Wood’s sister. The man, his dentist.
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This clever "Disappearing Civil Liberties" mug features the complete text of the Bill of Rights that disappear (thanks to the Patriot Act) as you add hot beverage. From the Neatorama Shop: Link
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In December of 1888, Vincent Van Gogh cut off the lobe of his left ear with a razor. Many explanations have been offered for this bizarre behavior. Now a scholar claims to have found an explanation in the portrayal of a letter in Van Gogh’s Still Life: Drawing Board, Pipe, Onions and Sealing-Wax, painted the following month.
Bailey concludes that this letter was written by [Van Gogh's brother] Theo from Paris in December 1888 and contained news of his engagement. This, he believes, tipped Vincent, who was already psychologically disturbed, into self-harm. “Vincent was fearful that he might lose his brother’s emotional and financial support,”writes Bailey in the January edition of The Art Newspaper.
The postmark depicted on the letter corresponds to that which would have been used by Van Gogh’s brother, and the date would agree with the transmital of the engagement news.
A few people were lucky enough to be pan pals of a sort with Vincent Van Gogh. Van Gogh often added sketches or paintings to his letters, to illustrate what he wrote about. BibliOdyssey has a collection of these letter sketches, along with the letters that accompanied them. Link
Legend has it that Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear after a falling out with Paul Gauguin. But a new study by German art historians Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans claimed that it was actually the result of Gauguin’s sword attack – not van Gogh’s self-mutilation:
Gauguin, an excellent fencer, was planning to leave Van Gogh’s "Yellow House" in Arles, southwestern France, after an unhappy stay.
He had walked out of the house with his baggage and his trusty épée in hand, but was followed by the troubled Van Gogh, who had earlier thrown a glass at him.
As the pair approached a bordello, their row intensified, and Gauguin cut off Van Gogh’s left earlobe with his sword – either in anger or self-defence.
He then threw the weapon in the Rhône. Van Gogh delivered the ear to the prostitute and staggered home, where police discovered him the following day, the new account claims.
Gauguin had undoubtedly been staying with Van Gogh, but most experts think he had disappeared before the ear incident.
Although the historians provide no "smoking gun" to back up their claims, they argue theirs is the most logical interpretation, and explains why in his final recorded words to Gauguin, Van Gogh writes: "You are quiet, I will be, too".
