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A 5 page research paper comparing and contrasting the sunflower paintings of these two artists. The writer posits that, according to their own desires, the artists created the effect of either order (Monet) or emotion (van Gogh). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Gogh with technique applied to intense emotion. Monet had given up the romantic notion of art, viewing art as a strict visual expression of scientific principles. Van Gogh,
on the other hand, based his artistic vision on the romantic impression of the artist. Yet, both employed Monets Pointillist and other Impressionist techniques to capture contrast, color references,
and most importantly, different expressions of movement within the object. The artists captured these differences in paintings of sunflowers in a vase. Their techniques were similar in the
application of paint, but the results were very different. Anne Wanger argues that Monet gave up figure painting because he was concerned with
the emotional basis of intimacy that figures represent in daily life (Wanger 612). He considered this affinity for domestic representation to be subject to emotions which interferred with artistic
intent. For this reason, Ms. Wanger claims, Monet concentrated on the impression he received of objects and transformed these to canvas rather than capturing the changing world of humans
in domestic scenes. Instead, Monet "emphasized the envelope, the thick blanket of atmosphere that scatters light and softens the edges of forms...." (Skrapits 24). Therefore, his paintings were
primarily concerned with capturing the time of day because according to his theory, the time of day dictated the use of color. In contrast, van Gogh was primarily concerned
with capturing the light of "eternity," and color defined the sense of the object (Schiff 77). In this way, van Gogh was
primarily interested in creating emotion from colors, very much in contrast to Monets scientific approach. He wrote to his brother Theo: "I am always in hope of making
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